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ATTACK OF THE HEART INFO Now I’m not sure if it’s called Heart Attack Hill or if we just made it up but the official name is Star Hill and is just off the Beaufort monument and near the woods called Barn Wood where a headless horse is meant to ride in and out of […]

GRAB IN THE NIGHT HISTORY There are pleasant walks along the steep wooded banks of the River Frome, for example to Oldbury Court. The park was purchased in 1926 by the Corporation of Bristol as “a pleasure walk for citizens of Bristol” and restored in the 1980s by the Fishponds Local History Society. The park’s […]

FUR RASIER INFO Here is where Patch went all weird and her fur stood up and she was staring in mid-air at nothing. We were stood at the gate of the graveyard where we were going to go in and take some pictures me and my friend but Patch started to act all funny so […]

FLASHING LIGHTS AHEAD INFO It’s scary enough being in the dark on the Cycle Path/the old railway station/the old Dramway let alone seeing a train header light ahead and then disappearing into the night. We were on paths like this and were one straight path that led to the next town or village. It was […]

MISTY FACE HISTORY The Avon and Gloucestershire Railway also known as The Dramway was an early mineral railway, built to bring coal from pits in the Coalpit Heath area, north-east of Bristol, to the River Avon opposite Keynsham. It was dependent on another line for access to the majority of the pits, and after early […]

DUCH COURAGE HISTORY Elizabeth Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (née Berkeley; c. 1713 – 9 April 1799) was born in Stoke Gifford in Gloucestershire to John Symes Berkeley and Elizabeth Norborne. Her younger brother was Norborne, Lord Botetourt. The name Elizabeth Somerset came up which is presumably the same as Elizabetha. A stone monument to the memory […]

DOG POSSESSION INFO The dog was called Max and was a Golden Retriever like the photo on the left-hand side of this text. It was such a nice dog and always came up to you to get smoothed and loved the attention. It’s a shame they don’t live as long as we humans but he […]

BLOODY DUCKERY HISTORY Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as “Bloody Mary” by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the […]