I have a terrific old book on Bristol published about 1904. It is by George Frederick Stone BRISTOL AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. A record of 50 years progress. It reprinted articles from the Bristol Evening News. There are lovely illustrations of old Bristol by S.J. Loxton. Darryl ------------------------------------------------- Darryl Gwynne Glen Williams Canada -------------------------------------------------- On 2012-10-01, at 10:05 AM, Karen Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a book called 'English City. The Growth and the Future of Bristol' which was published in 1945 by J S Fry & Sons. What makes it of particular interest, I think, is that in addition to a potted history the book outlines the plans for post-war Bristol's development, looking at what was being done elsewhere in Europe and the USA. I don't know Bristol that well and so can't say how much, if any, of those plans came to fruition. It it's interesting anyway. > Karen > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:53:15 +0100, Darryl Gwynne <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a terrific old book on Bristol published about 1904. It is by > George Frederick Stone BRISTOL AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. A record of 50 > years progress. It reprinted articles from the Bristol Evening News. > There are lovely illustrations of old Bristol by S.J. Loxton. Hi Darryl and Listers, Thanks for your reference to this one, Darryl. I agree that this is a terrific old book. I ought to dip into it more often rather than just use it for reference. I hadn't realized that there was an earlier edition than my 1909 edition of this book, but looking at the title page I see that it says: Reprinted, with additions, from the 'Bristol Evening News', 1908-1909. The book is packed with S.J. Loxton's drawings of Bristol and, at the back of my 1909 edition, there are 24 pages of advertisements. At the moment, copies of the 1909 edition of this fascinating book can be bought for between £80 and £150 in the U.K. I bought my copy for £50, so I think I had a bargain. Josephine