Bradford People: Joseph Chaning Pearce (1811-1847)
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Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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Joseph Chaning Pearce, in the course of a short life, built up one of the largest collections of fossils in the country in the early nineteenth century.
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People: Elizabeth Tackle (1808-1877)
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Bradford on Avon Museum, Wiltshire
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The Bradford artist Elizabeth Ann Hamlyn was born in Bandon, near Cork in Ireland, the daughter of an army officer who was serving there. Her father moved the family to Holt in 1817 and he became the...
Read MoreOld Photographs: Bowls
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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Bradford Rowing Club laid out a two-rink bowling green next to their boathouse for non-rowing members in 1912. The green was enlarged to three, then to four rinks. In 1957 the Rowing Club Bowls Section became Bradford on Avon Bowling Club and in 1966 moved to the new green that was provided on the other side of...
Read MoreChrist Church graveyard
Christ Church was built in the 1840s to serve the northern fringes of the town.
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... Read MoreWar Memorials
Memorials to those who died in the two World Wars of the 20th century (1914-1918 and 1939-1945) can be found in several places in Bradford and in the villages. Sometimes the village memorials also list all who served in the forces. Some organisations -churches, clubs, companies- have their own memorials to their members too.
Histories of those who...
Read MoreHolt Road Cemetery, Bradford
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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Holt Road Cemetery was set up by the Bradford Improvement Commissioners in 1856 as a non-denominational burial ground to relieve pressure on those in the town under the Burial Act of 1853. The original area, two mortuary chapels (Anglican and Nonconformist...
Read MoreOld Photographs: Music, dancing and Drama
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Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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Eddie Purnell’s Band performing at a dance at the Assembly Hall of the works of the Royal Enfield company at Westwood during or just after the Second World War. Enfield moved...
Read MoreLocal geologists
The country around the Bradford Hundred forms part of what has been called “The Cradle of English Geology” due to its association with William Smith, the “Father of English Geology” and many other founders of the science. It was around here that the order of strata was worked out.
Rev Richard Warner BA, FLS 1763-1857
Richard Warner was an antiquarian who...
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