HENLEAZE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL

JUST 2 DAYS TO GO!

Wednesday, 3 December (4pm - 8pm)

The Christmas Festival is taking place in Henleaze Bristol BS9.
The main Festival can be found on Henleaze Road, Waterford Road, Dublin Crescent and Cardigan Road.

FOR MORE DETAILS: http://www.henleazechristmasfestival.co.uk/

BRISTOL LOCAL HISTORY BOOK FAIR - SATURDAY, 6 DECEMBER

Join us for the annual Bristol Local History Book Fair. Books and pamphlets on sale from Bristol publishers, authors and societies.

SATURDAY, 6 DECEMBER, 2014 (10AM - 5PM)

Browse a wide selection of local history titles and listen to FREE TALKS in the afternoon.

Booksellers will include Bristol Books, Bygone Bristol, Redcliffe Press, the South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group and Tangent Books, several independent authors – and more.
(Veronica Bowerman will be there!)

10am-1pm

Family history advice from the Bristol & Avon Family History Society

1.30pm – Bristol: the City at War, 1914-1918 (Eugene Byrne, co-author of ‘Bravo Bristol!’)

As a major British city and port, Bristol played a key role in the First World War. Join Eugene for stories of Bristolians on the battlefield, on the Home Front and in the war at sea.

2.30pm – Unmarked Graves: the Eastville Workhouse Project (Dr Di Parkin, Bristol Radical History Group)

Between 1855 and 1895, over 3,000 paupers were buried in unmarked graves near Eastville Workhouse on Fishponds Road. Di Parkin will present a project to uncover the names of the people buried there.

3.30pm – Bristol’s Treasure Island Influences (Mark Steeds, Long John Silver Trust)

Hear from Mark about the pirates and privateers that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to set parts of his classic book in the city.

Photo courtesy of the McNeill/Sleigh families.
(Eric McNeill was Minister at the United Reformed Church in the 1920s and lived in this thatched cottage)

Yesterday I was introduced to a wonderful book by an old girl from St Margaret's High School for Girls which was located in Henleaze until the 1960s. 

If you went to an all girls school you will probably still have strong memories of school songs, teachers, sport etc.

This book is available on Amazon from 1p plus UK delivery charges. It is a fun book to read.
It's called Great Days & Jolly Days by Celia Haddon and has a foreward by no less a person than Joyce Grenfell.

Needless to say there is an interesting entry on page 30 submitted by Miss Jenner, the Senior Mistress.

Was there a Roman Villa in Henleaze?

Photo of St Margaret's (late 1950s) courtesy of Trish Johns

Ruby Langdon attended St Margaret's  School during the 1920s and 1930s - exact years not recalled at present. According to her daughter she clearly remembers the existence of a Roman mosaic floor out in the grounds - quite large and well preserved -although not cared for. The girls were taken out to see it.  They were always told it would probably have been the floor of a  Roman villa. She presumes the developers chose not to 'see' it (in the 1960s ) as it would have caused delays or worse when the new housing was built. Nothing has ever been mentioned of its existence since.
Ruby Langdon was a contemporary and good friend of Betty Bastin who, if traceable - or perhaps her family - would also remember the mosaic, and might know more?

Can anyone help with further information including Betty Bastin mentioned above
or her family?