On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:18:06 +0100, Ian Sage <[email protected]> wrote: > Five Years of Colliery Life or the Adventures of a Collier Boy in a > Somersetshire Coal Mine by Jonathan Presto (1884) is one. And stretching > geography a little, I'd add > The River Wye - A Pictorial History ... Hi Ian and Listers, Thanks for the reference to latter book, Ian :-) I had a look in the index of The River Wye and found references to Bristol trade. Here is one of the references: Page 46 As well as providing Bristol with a number of ships, Chepstow also had considerable trade with this sea-faring city across the River Severn. In the last decade of the 18th century, there was a market boat of 70 tons burthen, which sailed from Chepstow to Bristol every Tuesday, returning on Friday. The fare for passengers was 6d. and all kinds of merchandise were carried on it. By 1824, visitors from Bristol, intent on seeing the beauties of the Lower Wye, were able to arrive at Chepstow by a steam packet named the Duke of Beaufort. Fares were 4s. in the cabin, 3s. in the fore-cabin and 2s. on the fore deck. During the 1840s, a passenger steamer called the Wye plied between Bristol and Chepstow. In 1847, Charles Frederick Cliffe observed: 'The voyage by steam occupies, at the utmost, two hours. The Wye iron steamer starts from Bristol every morning, except Sundays, and returns in the afternoon. In the summer, the passages are always arranged, when the tide will permit, so as to enable the tourist for the day to visit the most striking scenes on the Wye between Chepstow and Monmouth'. Josephine

On 30/09/2012 10:31, Josephine Jeremiah wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:18:06 +0100, Ian Sage <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The River Wye - A Pictorial History ... > Hi Ian and Listers, > > Thanks for the reference to latter book, Ian :-) > > I had a look in the index of The River Wye and found references to Bristol > trade. > > I have to confess to cheating a little on this one - the River Wye has its place in my personal history, not my family's. But it is a most enjoyable book for browsing. Ian