The Bristol Nine Magazine - October 2020

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Deciding to leave his city centre firm, Jonathan Corfield established his own practice in Sneyd Park in 2009 where he and his wife have lived for many years and raised their family. Charles Corfield joined the practice later that year after graduating from Bristol University with a Masters in Law and both were later joined by Stuart Corfield when he also qualified as a solicitor.

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THE EDITOR’S SMALL PIECE Hi there and welcome to the September issue of the magazine, and after a gloriously sunny few days break in mid-Wales it now feels as if Autumn has properly arrived. Which is fine by me - the good weather that arrived at the same time as “you know what” in March has been terrific, but it feels like it is time to move on into the season of mellow fruitfullness, when hazelnuts can be harvested (a real childhood memory), wierd and wondereful funghi spring up (like the one on the front cover we spotted on a walk near Barmouth, and which we believe is a juvenile Parasol mushroom), and the temptation to turn the heating on begins to gnaw at you. Oh, and there are chocolate coins and advent calendars in certain local shops.

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MUSIC NOW & THEN - DUNCAN HASKELL Album of the Month

original production, in particular the way one song seamlessly flows into the next (as intended).

It also contains bonus material that you actually want to hear, something of a rarity in a world where more often means less.

The Delta Sweete [Expanded Edition] by Bobbie Gentry

This month we are breaking our own rules and recommending a reissue. It’s not like we’re shouting about a record which everyone loved the first time around; reaching only number 132 on the US album charts in 1968, it faired even worse over here. In fact, ever since Bobbie Gentry left the public eye in the early 1980s, it’s rare to hear her talked about at all.

So whether you’re hearing The Delta Sweete for the first time or revisiting a long forgotten masterpiece, there is much joy to be found.

Next Step The Girl From Chickasaw County by Bobbie Gentry If, like us, The Delta Sweete has you thirsting for more, this expansive collection from 2018 is the answer (and some). Featuring her entire recording career for Capitol Records (7 studio albums and 75 previously unreleased tracks) this is definitive stuff and shows Gentry’s strengths as a songwriter, song interpreter, arranger, producer and performer. An artist who was very much the full package, it leaves you wondering why she isn’t remembered as one of the all-time greats… we guess that’s the price some people pay for doing things their own way and walking away from the celebrity lifestyle.

That wasn’t always the case, especially when she burst onto the scene in 1967 with Ode To Billie Joe. Following the success of that song and its parent album, Gentry decided to pay homage to Mississippi, the state where she had spent the first 13 years of her life (far less than many people had assumed), with The Delta Sweete.

The first side of the album is only a hint of what’s to follow. Songs like Okolona River Bottom Band and Big Boss Man have a similarly matter-offact style as Ode To Billie Joe, but then things start getting a little more technicoloured, as if someone laced Gentry’s sweet tea and she’s now strung out on the front porch musing on the life that’s drifting by.

Podcast of the Month Disgraceland

Gentry’s soulful delivery keeps things the right side of sickly and whether an unexpected instrument or lyric, something always turns up to take things in an interesting direction. The only misstep, musically and geographically, comes with Louisiana Man – which feels very much out of place.

Blending music history, true crime and a large dollop of creative license, Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians literally getting away with murder (rather than committing audio crimes).

Answering questions such as ‘Did Jerry Lewis kill his fifth wife?’ and ‘How did Sid Vicious and Sam Cooke really die,’ the likes of Guns N Roses, Bob Marley, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston all get put under the macabre microscope. With 50 episodes to sink your teeth into, this one should keep you occupied for some time.

The trio of Penduli Pendulum, Jessye’ Lisabeth and Refractions are masterful pieces of chamber pop. The voice draws you in close before the arrangements take you through these slightly off-kilter vignettes, loosely themed and sitting together perfectly. It’s easy to hear why some called this record, “The Sgt Pepper of the swamp.”

Not only is this reissue a chance to enjoy an album which passed most people by the first time round, the re-mastering work done by Andrew Batt has vastly improved certain aspects of the

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PRIZE WORDSEARCH This month the wordsearch has a very Bristolian feel to it as it is all about Mr Brunel and his engineering feats - oh, and penguins of course.

To coincide with the new adventure trail launched this month at the SS Great Britain, celebrating the 50th anniversary of her homecoming, we are offering a family season ticket (for 2 adults plus 3 children) as the prize. Check out page 54 for more details of what is going on at SSGB.

(07845 986650), or phone (0117 259 1964). Best of luck - here are the words you are looking for.

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Listed below are twenty one words associated with either IKB or penguins Twenty of the words have also been hidden in the wordsearch puzzle - and can be listed running forwards, backwards, up, down or on a diagonal. Just let me know the word that is missing from the grid, and if you are correct and first out of the hat after the closing date of 31st October you will win the family ___________________________ season ticket to one of Bristol’s most popular and exciting attractions. Entries please, no later than 31st October, by post (8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY), email (andy@bcmagazines.co.uk), text

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TALKING PETS WITH VIKING VETS Uncertainty and urgency.

either giving us a diagnosis or at least a clue to where to go looking. As a practice we have not found video consulting very helpful for a proper consultation. It works well for post-op checks, repeat prescription and some re-examinations.

We will endeavour to explore this more over the next months.

Being a first opinion vet is a great job however there is no denying that it is also enormously stressful. We have to deal with new problems on a daily basis, often we have no idea what is coming in and what is wrong with the pets just by examining them. We also have the added issue about finance, we are lucky to live in a country where we have the NHS to cover human medical bills, so are not exposed to what it cost to see the doctor or go to hospital. Pets are also regarded as non essential hence there is 20% VAT on all the bills. It is totally understandable that people get frustrated if we are unable to say exactly what is wrong on a first visit.

When we take this uncertainty and add the time pressure of seeing a new pet and client every 15 minute it can easily become overwhelming. The sad reality is that the average time a vet remain in first opinion veterinary practice is now only 4 years. It took me a lot longer than four years to feel that I had a grasp of the complexity of this job.

The majority of vets will move onto something else before they experience the joy of following a puppy/ kitten and their owners through their life. The pleasure of helping new owners with their pets, see the relationship build and be there at the end when it is time to say goodbye is a privilege. The human relationships becoming as important as the clinical help we offer.

The unfortunate reality is that many illnesses have the same symptoms, therefore to find a diagnosis we have to do investigative steps to help us reach that point. It has to be remembered that our patients are also unable to vocalise what is wrong with them, so we are dependent on the owners observational skills. It has to be said the owners are rarely wrong when they describe the pet to be ‘just not right’. The clinical exam is essential in

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THIS BS9 LIFE - DUNCAN HASKELL of a more general understanding. I now know when to cut things back (or “butcher” as Mrs Haskell describes my over zealous technique) and when to let them flourish – I appreciate this would be nothing more than common sense, but I’m very much a “learn the hard way” kind of guy.

Way back when we first moved to BS9 I wrote a column for the magazine about owning a garden for the first time. So long ago that I can’t find the article on any of my hard drives (I don’t think I knew about cloud storage back then), I’m pretty certain I signed off with a determination to concrete over all the greenery which was insidiously taking over our existence.

For example, it turns out that following the instructions of how to care for your herbs / vegetables is actually a sensible thing to do.

This year, after several failed attempts, I’ve managed to crack that hitherto impossible trio of basil, chives and coriander. Who knows, if Earth still exists in 50 year’s time we might even be fully self sufficient.

It seems this is also a transferable skill for anyone hoping that seeds and bulbs eventually emerge from the ground rather than disappear, never to be seen again.

Thankfully, you can all breath a sigh of relief and be safe in the knowledge that I didn’t commit mass planticide. In fact, three(ish) years later I find my fingers turning increasingly green. Much of this has been out of necessity. Just as prevention is better than a cure, keeping a regular eye on certain species that are trying to take over our lives (I’m definitely looking at you Anemone hupehensis) is better than having to wage an era-defining war in search of the grass you know used to exist.

Many of these are lessons which we all know but are often worth reassuring. It takes practice to get things right. If you put in the time and effort you will get there. You never know, one day you also might find yourself saying things like, “Don’t worry, all we need to do is bang an angle iron in there and it’ll be fine.”

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Trusted Trader of the Month for September 2020.

‘I am always trying to constantly improve and strive for good customer service so people can say traders are alright too! That’s our main motivation.’

Lek-Trix is a team of three: Dan, his partner Frankie, and Lee who joined recently and is training. Dan said: ‘Being a small team enables us to keep it a bit more personal. If I come out and quote the job, most of the time it’s me that’s doing it.’

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Lek-Trix became a Which? Trusted Trader in 2016 because it was ideal for its customers and there were few Trusted Traders in the area who were electricians. ‘Most customers recognise that Which?

Trusted Traders has genuine reviews and when people realise that Which? vets the reviews it gives them confidence.’

No job is too big or small for Lek-Trix, which does a wide range of electrical work, including lighting, power and fitting smart home systems.

This is the company’s second win, with Lek-Trix Limited also named Trusted Trader of the Month in August 2019. It also achieved a Certificate of Distinction in June 2020, awarded to a select few traders who achieve the highest standards.

As well as being committed to looking after its customers, Lek-Trix throws itself into charity and community work. The judges commended its efforts to support an electrician intraining. Lek-Trix donated tools to an individual who wanted to change careers and train as an electrician but was finding it tricky to get work experience without the necessary equipment. Since then, he has joined the team while he studies.

Lek-Trix is recommended by 100% of customers on its Which? Trusted Trader profile page at the time of writing. Customers often praise its reliability, high standard of work, tidiness and promptness.

So perhaps it’s no surprise that LekTrix says that the majority of work comes from repeat customers or from word-of-mouth recommendations.

Founder Dan Haynes told us: ‘We are always proud of our work and do everything to the highest standard.

We’re proud of the response we get from customers. As long as the customer is happy then we have won.

If we’re not happy with something we are not ashamed to say that it’s not right and we will change it.’

Every customer is involved in LekTrix’s charity work with Beam which supports homeless people looking to retrain and get back into work. When an invoice is paid, customers get a £10 prepaid donation card and they choose who to support with it via the Beam website.

Congratulations to Dan & Frankie, who are keen to say a big thank you to all their customers in BS9 for their support and positive feedback.

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HISTORY NOTES No. 152 - JULIAN LEA-JONES How below ground became Bristol’s above ground

that a lorry turning across Redland Hill, knocked the wall down into the quarry. Fortunately by the grace of God, no one was killed, but years later repairs to the stone face are still ongoing, comprising steel rods, plates and cement grout, a technique used successfully on the rock face at the bottom of Bridge Valley Road.

Although nowadays there is much less evidence of the holes from which material was excavated to build Bristol, some are still visible. One is now a hazard for gatherers of the perfect elderflower with which to make cordial or wine. This is because their favoured part of the Downs, alongside Upper Belgrave Road between Pembroke Road and The Avenue, still has many deep holes and depressions that are a surviving feature of the Dumps or Gruffy Grounds. The best elderflowers always seem to grow out of the middle of the steep-sided holes, traps for the unwary flower gatherer.

Crossing to the other side of Blackboy Hill a road sign directs you down Quarry Steps where houses built in the quarry floor have vertiginous back walls. Further along Worrall Road, again backing against the former quarry rockface, was the site of Lester’s Club, later Bristol’s own Moulin Rouge. Although these quarries and mineral workings, including of course those on the sides of the Avon Gorge, are still very visible, northwest Bristol has many others, no longer used, worked out and infilled to provide level ground for parks and leisure facilities. In some places on the Downs, where the infilling has settled over the years, a slight raised line shows the former quarry edge.

Lead came from these and other workings in Clifton, such as Litfield Place, literarily ‘the place of the Lead Fields’. It is possible that some houses still have lead water pipes and rainwater gullies from these workings, especially as there was a lead blowing mill, needed to reduce the ore to the metal, in Jacobs Wells Road. The Romans are known to have used British slaves to operate their Mendip mines, and isotope analysis has confirmed that water cisterns at Pompeii are made from our lead. Andrew Mathieson, Bristol Museums Education Service geologist, said it was thought that they also worked lead here, as the Anglo-Saxon Charter of 883 contains a reference to the mineral being dug on the Downs.

Nowadays often the only clues to their former use, providing limestone and other building materials for Bristol’s nineteenth and early twentieth suburbs, are street names, such as Quarry Road, Claypit Road, off Westbury Road, or Rockside Drive in Henleaze. The latter led down to the former huge Southmead Quarry, closed in 1912. It was bisected at Eastfield Road, colloquially known as ‘Clarke’s Corner’, (now the site of Amelia Court retirement homes).

The southern, Henleaze side of this was filled in with WWII bombsite rubble to form the everpopular Old Quarry Park. As an aside, other Bristol bombsite rubble also provided much needed ballast for the “liberty boats” returning to New York after the war where it was used as foundation infill for the East River Drive. Details of this bit of Bristol’s history can be read on the plaque on the Centre opposite the Hippodrome.

A poignant thought - there may be children now using the park who are playing on the remains of their great grandparents’ homes.

But what of other holes? One of the largest quarries also along Upper Belgrave Road did not get finally filled until the 1880s. But the most noticeable one today and probably the most remembered is the quarry at the top of Redland Hill which, in the 1950s, was the site of The Glen - where my generation of teenagers flocked on Saturday afternoons. Tiffany’s is no longer a must-visit music venue, because since the 1980’s The Glen has been home to the well-known BUPA Hospital, (currently the Spire Hospital), that sprang like a giant brick mushroom from the quarry floor. Instead of Rocking and Rolling to groups such as Pete Budd and the Rebels, or the Moonrakers who came first in the Skiffle competition, nowadays once sprightly teenagers still visit the same site, but now to be repaired!

Ironically, it was the view of repair work on the quarry wall from my hospital ward window which provided the inspiration for this article. It seems

On a more cheerful note, one of the most popular facilities in the park is the zip wire. Part of the northern end of Southmead Quarry was infilled for houses and tennis courts, but by 1936 the remainder was allowed to fill with spring water as the quarry was no longer viable enough to

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This soon became Southmead Lake, eventually becoming Henleaze Swimming Club, whose history has been thoroughly documented in Derek & Joyce Klemperer’s excellent book, ‘The Quarries and Limekilns of Westbury-on-Trym’.

The cream coloured Bath or Doulting stone seen on many of our public and Victorian buildings dates from the Jurassic age and because it is softer and easily shaped to smooth and regular blocks is often used as facing stone. Another source of stone for local buildings, such as Cabot Tower, Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital and Bristol Grammar School features the red Brandon Hill Grit, a quartzitic sandstone. However, these rocks are extremely hard and can only be faced and trimmed with great difficulty. For example, as recently as the 1980s, the flats on the site of the former Princes Theatre in Park Row required explosives to quarry out the footings. Other buildings using this stone are often faced with Bath stone.

Five limekilns by Southmead Quarry, two of which were under Clarke’s Corner, another in Chock (Chalk) Lane, provided limestone and mortar for most of northwest Bristol’s homes.

The limestone quarried on the Downs, both at The Glen and Eastfield and Southmead Quarries was carboniferous limestone - typically dense, hard, and grey which weathers to white, as seen on the exposed rocks in the Avon Gorge.

This was used as a building stone, commonly in boundary walls. Liz Loeffler showed me these interesting fossil corals in a wall in Henleaze Road.

We now marvel and are grateful to the foresight of the City Council and the Society of Merchant Venturers and the Lords of Henbury to jointly ensure filled in quarries that form the upland plateau of Clifton and Durdham Downs are saved for public use, but if you stood on Stoke Road in the 1860s you would not have seen a plateau but a series of vast holes that formed the Stoke and Westbury White Lime quarries. For example, where the clump of trees known as the seven sisters, (now five), stand was the Chain Quarry. To get an idea of that nineteenth century landscape, visit the City Art Gallery, or read Anthony Beeson’s book, ‘North Bristol Through Time’ which include the artist William Arnee Frank’s evocative painting, seen here, showing the true size of that one quarry.

It also provided lime for mortar because when they built our new suburbs amongst many other things, they needed lots of lime mortar, the latter being a classic example of entrepreneurship and reuse. Local coal pit owners had lots of coal slack/ dust to get rid of, and someone had the brilliant idea of selling it to builders who could use it to bulk up lime mortar (remember the small black mountain alongside the A4174 by what is now Abbey Wood, which was slack from the Harry Stoke pit, conveniently near Lime Kiln Close?).

This formed Bristol’s infamous Black Mortar, the curse of any DIYer drilling walls to put up shelves or hang a picture.

The vast hole took all the material from the dredging the Cumberland Basin lock system and straightening the course of the River Avon by removing the ‘point’ at the former Hot Wells

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HISTORY NOTES No. 152 - JULIAN LEA-JONES House. A special steam engine and trackway was constructed to pull the spoil up through Walcome Slade Gully to the Downs.

into a fissure which put Bristol on the world’s Palaeontological stage. The fissure contained the fossilised remains of a late Triassic aged dinosaur, approximately 2 metres long: Thecodontosaurus antiquus, generally referred to as the “Bristol Dinosaur”

Material for filling former quarries, such as the Pembroke Road Quarry, came from the excavations of the River Frome Culvert in central Bristol. Sometimes ground was moved not to fill holes, but to give a better view, When the new Crescent shaped Council House was built at the head of College Green, the green was lowered by a few feet. I was told that it was this spoil used to form the tennis courts, below the Sea Walls. One of the quarrymen’s most unexpected discoveries was while getting stone from the Durdham Downs quarry, near the present water tower, when they broke into a cavern containing very unusual items which gave rise to yet another urban myth. I was told by ‘one who knows’ that “Of course, “THEY’ hushed it all up, and the workmen were told to seal it up before anyone investigated the contents and delayed work.”

Absolute tosh. The reality was the workmen had broken into a cavern, which the City Museum’s geologists believed dated from the last warm phase of the Ice Ages between 128,000 and 116,000 years ago. The cavern was found to contain bones, later identified, as remains of at least twelve hyenas, a bear, two rhinoceroses, several hippopotami, fragments of numerous examples of wild bulls, about five deer, and five or six elephants, (a veritable Ice Age Zoo)! The bones were nearly all fractured into small pieces, with a greater proportion of teeth and horns to other parts of the bodies. Taking this fact into consideration, together with the marks of gnawing on the bones, and the certainty that the cave could not have accommodated more than a small fraction of the animals represented by the remains, scientific observers concluded that the den had been the retreat of hyenas, which had carried there portions of their prey. Surely a splendid example of truth being stranger than fiction! Andrew Mathieson said that the Museum even made a model of the cavern.

Stone was also needed for all the new roads, many of which still have kerbstones of greengrey pennant sandstone from Frome Valley quarries. Lampooned as the ‘Colossus of Roads’ was Bristol’s Surveyor of Roads, John Louden McAdam, a plaque on his house in Berkeley Square marking his nineteenth century achievements.

His innovative idea was to use locally quarried stone to make a stable roadbed of small graded and compacted rocks, which could pass through a 1 inch, 25mm sieve. Prior to his innovation road construction was a haphazard affair, prone to landowners vested interests. A prominent feature of pictures of his new stone-faced roads shows clouds of white limestone dust – the result of abrasion by iron shod carters’ horses and iron cartwheels. This problem was initially solved by water carts, (with iron rimmed wheels?) wetting the roads to momentarily settle the dust, it was later that the idea of sealing the road surface with a mixture of gravel and bitumen, the now ubiquitous Tarmac® that solved the problem. I am not sure whether John Louden McAdam was responsible for this innovation, but it is on record that the lower levels of the Black Rock Quarry on the bank of the Avon Gorge had bitumen inclusions, some of which were even liquid. A victim of the quarry’s closure was the cottage on the bank of the Avon which had a unique claim to fame. Amongst Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s many proposals was a water supply for Clifton; his plans in the City Archives, show he chose the stone doorstep of the quarry’s cottage as the reference datum for all his elevation measurements.

Lastly, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson were visiting Bristol to see the splendours of the Avon Gorge, and as they were climbing up the Gulley, Watson picked up a rock and asked Holmes, “We have seen many different rocks from the quarries here today, but what sort is this?” “it’s sedimentary, my dear Watson”.

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Senior Snippets Protecting yourself from flu

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IN THE GARDEN WITH CATHY LEWIS Poisonous and irritant plants

irritate the skin. Euphorbias have a milky sap that flows freely when the stems are cut.

It causes the skin to become photosensitive and blister in sunlight. Always wear gloves when pruning euphorbias like this, and wash your hands with soap and water if the sap gets on your skin.

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Take care, too, with aconitum (also known as monkshood or wolfsbane), echiums, alstroemeria, chilli plants, chrysanthemums and parsnips as they all contain skin irritants and toxins.

After editor Andy told us last month about his recent misadventure, a severe reaction to an unidentified plant sap, I thought it would be useful to look at some botanical perils lurking in our gardens. Gardening, of course, can be fraught with danger - mishaps with tools, falls from ladders, trips, bee stings and so forth - but we don’t necessarily expect that ornamental plants may do us harm.

Plants can’t run away from predators so many have evolved ways to avoid being eaten, such as producing chemicals that make the plant unpalatable or poisonous, or mechanical defences such as thorns. Under normal circumstances most garden plants are unlikely to do you any harm. Take the hydrangea for example. It contains cyanide which can cause shortness of breath, dizziness and a rapid pulse but unless you’ve developed a strange compulsion to eat lots of it there’s no reason to dig it out of your garden.

The Royal Horticultural Society has a long list of potentially harmful plants as well as some precautionary advice. In a nutshell, they recommend that you teach children to be careful around plants, don’t eat anything unless it’s a food plant, keep uprooted plants away from animals, and wear long sleeves and gloves when pruning.

Some plants have the ability to cure as well as kill. Foxgloves contain toxic cardiac glycosides which can cause severe poisoning if the flowers or leaves are ingested. However these same chemicals are used to make an important heart drug. Daffodils are another example. All parts of the plant are toxic, but it contains a compound called galantamine that can slow the progress of Alzheimer’s. Mistletoe should never be ingested as it is highly poisonous, but it is used regularly in the fight against cancer.

Don’t forget that most garden plants are fairly harmless, so enjoy your garden… and don’t have nightmares!

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’After a short Summer respite - from work and COVID - Autumn has arrived!

Our busy ‘in boxes’ suggest that people are learning to live with the situation and getting on with their daily lives.

Bristol Energy : The Mayor at long last has taken our advice and sold this loss making business. Liabilities have now to be settled. Precise total loss not yet advised, but believed to be around £45M. That’s a truly shocking sum. What a tragic waste of our money.

Portway Trees : We are pleased to advise that the Planning Department has refused an application to fell a row of beautiful willow trees on the banks of the Avon just off the Portway. Our thanks to the many BS9 readers, who supported us.

Stoke Lodge : We have suggested a mediation meeting with Cotham School and await their response. Meantime the TVG applications continue to progress.

As always, please let us know if we can help you with any local issue.”

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Liabilities of animal owners

is either likely to cause severe damage or is such that any damage which it does cause is likely to be severe.

The COVID19 pandemic has seen a significant increase in domestic animal ownership so here is a reminder of the legal responsibilities of an owner.

Under the Act, the keeper of a dangerous animal is liable for any harm which may have been caused by that animal whether or not that keeper was at fault.

Individuals who keep any animals are under a legal duty of care to prevent them from causing harm to others. This is a civil liability which means that where harm is caused – action can be taken against the animal owner by the person who suffered loss or injury in the civil courts.

The “keeper” of the animal is defined by the Act as: • the owner who is in possession; • the head of the household if the owner is under 16 years old; or • an existing keeper who loses ownership or possession, until there is a new keeper.

If the animal owner is negligent in looking after or restraining the animal, and this directly results in harm, injury or loss to another person (or their property), then the owner will be liable in negligence. Where negligence can be proved, the victim is entitled to compensation in respect of their pain and injury, and losses resulting from the breach.

Keepers of dangerous wild animals are required to take out insurance policies against liability for damage caused to third parties and to be licensed by the local authority The Animals Act provides that where damage is caused by an animal from a non-dangerous species, the keeper of the animal is liable for the damage. Animals within this category include dogs, cattle, horses, etc.To prove liability under the Act, you have to show: • The damage is of a kind which the particular animal, unless restrained, is likely to cause – or if caused is likely to be severe; • Such likelihood is due to the characteristics of the particular animal not normally found in animals of the same species, or not so except at certain times or in certain circumstances; • That those characteristics were known to the keeper of the animal.

In addition to negligence, there is specific legislation governing liability for animals which, in many cases, provides an easier and more robust route to establishing a legal claim and securing compensation. The Animals Act 1971 provides a distinction between dangerous and non-dangerous species.

Where damage is caused by an animal from a dangerous species, any person who is a keeper of the animal is liable for the damage, subject to certain exceptions.

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Grange Court Road flats. There is a planning application to build 2 extra floors on the top of this block of flats. If you share our concern at this proposal, you can still register your objection on the Bristol Planning portal reference 20/03831/ND Pavement widening. We had many complaints about the impact of the barriers on Henleaze Road. We are delighted the Council has listened to us and removed them. Please let us have your views on the Westbury barriers Elmlea parking restrictions. The Council has kept promising these will be implemented shortly. We will keep pressing.

We continue with our Zoom community meetings; Our next is at 7pm on Tuesday 13th October. To register go to http://tiny.cc/WH13Oct Future meeting 17 November.

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Inheritance Tax (IHT) Receipts At Record Highs The latest HMRC statistics for tax receipts show IHT receipts for June 2020 as £508 million, 42% higher than the £357 million of June 2019.

It is estimated that around 66% of people don’t plan appropriately for IHT liability, meaning there is a total of around £15 billion in unprotected assets in the UK.

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Investment bonds can deliver valuable tax deferment before transferring or assigning Small gifts exemption: you can make to a non-tax-paying adult on encashment gifts of up to £250 to as many people thereby delivering tax free returns. as you like.

The payment of regular contributions to a life insurance policy held in trust for those who will inherit your estate on death would normally qualify as being exempt and the sum can be used to pay any tax due.

Did you know that your Cash and Stocks & Shares ISAs can be switched to IHTfree ISAs? An Estate Planning Review can pinpoint areas such as those above and might enable you to reduce the Inheritance Tax due on your estate.

Pensions; Use any unused annual Normal expenditure gifts £40k exemption: allowances carried Make includes regular gifts forward. out of surplus income contributions that do notto reduce your pension reduce your standard of living. taxable income (see above for important thresholds). Review your pension’s death Other lifetime gifts, particularly if made benefits to ensure your pension benefits outright, will in most instances from the changes made since 5thattract April no IHT when they are made and IHT 2015.

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GOOD READS - BRUCE FELLOWS’ BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS Better to be feared than loved Machiavelli decided, and in his wonderfully enlightening psychological study, Dictators, Frank Dikotter shows how eight of the twentieth century’s worst tyrants came to the same conclusion.

Censorship, highly organised mass demonstrations, paranoia, hubris, ruthless violence, sycophancy and fawning foreign admirers are all key ingredients in the cult of the personality as developed by the likes of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and Mao Zedong. Such callousness they displayed towards the people who once offered them love and loyalty! The numbers of deaths they caused beggar belief. And they’re still about; you could name them. This book is a warning from history.

In Hannelore Cayre’s amusing and gripping crime novel The Godmother, our heroine is Patience, a widow, and thanks to her exotic upbringing a fluent Arabic speaker, so she can earn a living in Paris translating police wire taps on drug dealers. But her mother’s nursing home is expensive and so are her daughters. The police pay translators ‘off the books’, and she has no pension on the horizon, so when a stash of hash falls into her lap, well, she knows what to do with it. Terrific dialogue, great characters, not least her Chinese neighbour and DNA, her dog, make this is a wonderful read.

Banned in the USSR, how did Doctor Zhivago reach the world? The answer is, by a very complicated route. But now you can track that route in Lara Prescott’s fascinating and surprising Cold War novel, The Secrets We Kept.

‘We’ are the secretaries bundled together in one room by the CIA and typing reports very quickly. Prescott uses many of those young women as narrators of her informative and fast-paced story. Boris Pasternak is another narrator as is Olga, his muse. There are spies, KGB interrogations, spangled dresses and plots to counter Sputnik anxiety, as well as a moving love story (not Olga and Boris).

Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley features four friends, close since their youth and now much older though still close until Lydia rings to say Zach is dead. The survivors are thrown into uproar. We track their lives in the present and learn how they met and came together. Nothing stays the same; Lydia can’t cope as a widow, Alex and Christine try to help, the two sets of children get involved, secrets come out, loyalties are strained, Christine locks her studio and can’t get back to painting. This is a compelling novel of family life and deep friendship, with entirely believable characters lovingly drawn.

Elwood is young, earnest and, in his mind, as good as anyone. But he’s black in Florida in the 1960s and when he’s falsely convicted, he’s sent to be educated at the Nickel Academy, a segregated reform school dedicated to making honest, upright citizens of The Nickel Boys, as author Colson Whitehead calls them in his outstanding novel. Elwood clings to Dr King’s teaching, whatever you do, ‘we will still love you’. But the regime is as cruel as can be imagined; boys are beaten, boys disappear. Can Turner help him? This is a brutal but timely story brilliantly well told. Don’t miss it.

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Falkland Islands penguins revisit the SS Great Britain, 50 years on

With five species and around a million breeding birds, the Falklands has one of the largest breeding populations of penguins in the world. The islands are also home to the largest breeding population of black-browed albatross – 70% if the global population.

Five species of penguin will arrive at Brunel’s SS Great Britain in Bristol this October half term.

The SS Great Britain spent more time in the Falklands than any place else (84 years in total, including time as a floating cargo store) and, to mark the 50th anniversary of her departure, the visitor attraction in Bristol has added a new exhibit and family trail.

The lifelike models are part of a family trail bringing the ship’s incredible homecoming story to life, marking the 50th anniversary of her journey from the Falkland Islands.

Each visitor (from 17 October onwards) will be given their own ‘Stanley’s Penguin Trail’ – a colourful guide that sets them off on a hunt for penguin eggs, highlighting exhibits and stories connected with the homecoming journey from the Falkland Islands in 1970.

They will meet each of the five penguin species along the way as well as a dramatic new exhibit in the museum – a black-browed albatross with a two-metre wingspan. The albatross, which died of natural causes, has been preserved and travelled from the Falkland Islands; a gift from the Falkland Islands Museum and Falkland Islands Association.

The SS Great Britain was brought ‘home’ to Bristol from Sparrow Cove in the Falkland Islands where she had spent 33 years.

That salvage was the most ambitious and pioneering ever undertaken, and the 8,000mile journey was the longest ever under tow.

The penguin trail – along with an outdoor photography exhibition – are part of a collaboration with support from the Falkland Islands Government and Falkland Islands Association.

Built by Brunel in 1843, the SS Great Britain was one of the most innovative ships in the world. She carried over 30,000 passengers.

New exhibits at the award-winning visitor attraction include the family of penguins and an albatross, bringing the final chapter of the ship’s history to life. Along with two existing museums, historic dockyard, dry dock and the SS Great Britain herself, visitors enjoy a safe, full day out.

A day out at Brunel’s SS Great Britain has been unanimously praised as safe and enjoyable

by TripAdvisor reviewers, with trails, oneway routes and warm welcome from staff all frequently mentioned. Tickets and timeslots can be booked online at ssgreatbritain.org, and tickets are valid for unlimited revisits for a year.

The SS Great Britain – the world’s first great ocean liner – lay abandoned in the Falkland Islands for 33 years with a colony of penguins and the occasional albatross for company.

Sparrow Cove is home to 1,600 Gentoo penguins and is where Brunel’s great ship set off from on her final ‘homecoming’ voyage 50 years ago when she was rescued.

You can win a family pass to the SS Great Britain - have a go at this month’s Prize Wordsearch on page 14

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Bristol North West Climate Action Group - October update

Bristol buses will be fully compliant with Euro VI emission standards in time for the implementation of Bristol’s Clean Air Zone. This will be achieved through retrofitting cleaner technology to diesel buses and the introduction of more biomethane powered buses.

Introduction There was hope that things might return to some sort of ‘normal’, with schools and colleges back. But with Covid on the rise again and warnings from Sir David Attenborough about the extinction of thousands of species, there is plenty we still need to do to look after ourselves and our planet.

Bristol City Council is embarking on a programme of road improvements that will benefit routes such as Service 2 over the coming months. This should act as a great example of what can be done to improve bus services in our city and help reduce congestion and air pollution.

On the move with First Bus The onset of lockdown on 23 March and government advice to avoid public resulted in passenger numbers on our buses falling to less than 10% of normal levels. First Bus changed its timetables more than a dozen times to keep pace with the rapidly changing shape of the lockdown. New cleaning regimes were introduced, plus safety procedures and social distancing measures to keep staff and customers safe.

Equal access to green space For many, walking provided a muchneeded sense of freedom following the COVID-19 outbreak, helping us to stay healthy and boost our wellbeing during difficult times. But we did not experience lockdown equally. Evidence shows that poor access to green space is bad for our health and widens the gap in health outcomes between the richest and poorest in society.

The Ramblers are calling on government to guarantee that no one lives more than five minutes’ walk from green space, under the Environment Bill. Write to your MP to ask for fairer access to green space: https://www.ramblers.org.uk/ walkinnature?s=09

Currently buses are running at just under half normal capacity, due to the reduction in the number of seats available on each bus. First Bus is using technology to help plan your journey, with changes to its app so that customers can see how many seats are available on each bus.

Stark warning about species extinction Just in case you missed it, here is the link to Sir David Attenborough’s documentary Extinction: The Facts. For once Britain’s favourite naturalist is not here to celebrate the incredible diversity of life on Earth but to issue us all with a stark warning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scienceenvironment-54118769

The reopening of shops and leisure facilities in July, and the return of schools in September saw First’s passenger numbers steadily climb to around 50% of normal levels. With changes in people’s attitude to risk and the growth in home working, passenger levels are likely to remain at these levels for the foreseeable future.

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17/05/2020 11:44:12

Wills Witnessed on Video Calls Made Legal from 28 September 2020

Leila Goodarzi

This summer, the Government announced that it would revise its Wills legislation in response to coronavirus (COVID-19) and from 28 September 2020 the necessary legislation to temporarily permit Wills to be witnessed by video conference or other visual link will come into effect. Importantly, the legislation will have retrospective effect, so Wills witnessed by video link and made from 31 January 2020 will be legal.

How Can My Will Be Witnessed Legally

by Video Link?

This change is not without its challenges as the risk of not witnessing a Will correctly is to make an invalid Will. Be aware of the following: •

You cannot use pre-recorded video for this process. Live video is required of both signing and witnessing.

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There can only be one Will document.

There will be an inevitable delay in its completion, whilst it is delivered to both your witnesses for them to sign (again by live video link).

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Your Will is not valid until everyone has signed, resulting in an incomplete Will during this lag time. This could present difficulties if, for example, you change your mind or lose capacity between signing the Will yourself and your witnesses signing.

The Government’s guidance states that the witnesses should ideally sign within 24 hours. The longer the

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process takes, the greater the risk of encountering difficulties.

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There is a risk of loss or damage when posting the Will.

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The whole process should be recorded if possible. There will be a minimum of two separate video recordings - one for you to sign the Will and the second for your two witnesses to sign, if they are together in the same room when they do so.

If they are in separate places, a third recording will be required.

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Will This Change Be Permanent?

This is a temporary amendment to the Wills Act 1837 and will apply to Wills made up until 31 January 2022. Any Will (which has not already been admitted to probate), made in this way since 31 January 2020 will be valid if compliant with the legislation.

Is It Better to Make My Will by Video Link?

It is likely to be more difficult to prove the validity of a Will if the witnessing has not been done correctly and the detailed list opposite indicates the many ways in which witnessing could go wrong, potentially also leading to an increase in challenges to Wills made by video link by opportunistic beneficiaries.

Our advice is to only use this newly permitted method of signing and witnessing your Will as a last resort and after having received detailed

professional advice on how to comply with the new procedure. Wherever possible it is preferable to witness your Will either in the presence of a qualified practitioner with the appropriate social distancing in place or with them overseeing the process by video link on a separate screen.

For specialist legal advice on making your Will to ensure it is valid please contact Partner Leila Goodarzi on 07909 682 364, in the Private Client team at awardwinning law firm VWV.

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THIS MONTH IN BRISTORY News

Pethick-Lawrence was born in Bristol and was the second of thirteen children. After moving to London she worked as a “sister of the people” for the West London Mission at Cleveland Hall. She was also a member of the Suffrage Society and became treasurer of the Women’s Social and Political Union as well as founding the publication Votes For Women in 1907 with her husband both were imprisoned in 1912 for conspiracy.

4 October 1795 The poet and founder of the Romantic Movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, married Sarah Fricker in St Mary Redcliffe church. Robert Southey, a fellow poet and friend of Coleridge who now has a blue heritage plaque at his former home of 87 Kingsdown Parade, also got married at the church the same year. Coleridge and Fricker had four children together before eventually separating.

29 October 1969 - Roni Size Born Ryan Owen Granville Williams, but best known as his stage name of Roni Size.

Williams grew up in St Andrews and learnt music production at the Sefton Park basement project, a local youth club. Most famous for his work with drum and bass group Roni Size & Reprazent whose debut album, New Forms, won the 1997 Mercury Music Prize. He has also released three solo albums and worked with artists such as Beverley Knight and Krust.

23 October 1912 A sports pavilion at Coombe Dingle belonging to Bristol University, which had been completed only two years earlier, was destroyed by a fire lit by Votes For Women activists. A note found nearby read, “‘Business before pleasure. Hobhouse being responsible will pay. Release Mary Richardson.”

Richardson, an activist in the women’s suffrage movement, was serving a sentence in HM Prison Holloway.

26 October 1986 Deregulation of buses meant that for the first time since the 1930 Road Traffic Act, bus services in Bristol city were open to free competition.

Buses have been active in the city since 1887, with the Bristol Tramways & Carriage Company (under various different name changes) having a monopoly for the century before deregulation.

Deaths 18 October 1891 – Gronow Davis Gronow Davis was born in Clifton on 16 May 1828.

His career with the Royal Artillery saw him rise to the rank of Captain when he was just 20. When he was 27, during the Crimean War, he rescued several injured colleagues during the attack on Redan by running into severe enemy fire – a heroic act for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Davis died suddenly at his home on Royal Park, Clifton in 1891 and is buried at Arnos Vale Cemetery.

17 October 1998

Fulham manager Kevin Keegan took his spending to £11 million with the £2 million purchase of Barry Hayles from Bristol Rovers. Having signed for Rovers from Stevenage Borough, Hayles was the club’s record scorer in the 1997 / 98 season with 26 goals in 57 matches. A further 10 goals at the start of the following season was enough to convince the wealthy Division Two side to snap him up.

2 October 1943 - Ernest JH Mackay A pupil of both Bristol Grammar School and Bristol University, Mackay went on to become an eminent archaeologist with a particular focus on Mohenjo-daro and other sites belonging to the Bronge Age Indus Valley Civilisation (in northwestern regions of South Asia). He also served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt and Palestine during WW1 and was Custodian of Antiquities for the Palestine Government from 1919 – 1922.

Births 21 October 1867 - Emmeline Pethick Lawrence A women’s rights activist and suffragette,

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IT ISSUES - RUSSELL ISAAC Lots to like in Apple’s new iOS14 system update

into various categories.

For the very first time since it’s launch The iPhone (and iPad)is getting a proper face-lift.

Widgets Until now, the iPhone’s widgets have been relegated to the Today View on the left of the main screen. Now, you can pull these widgets out and into your home screen (just like on Android) and get alternate sizes for them. This allows you to customize how your phone looks and quickly access certain functions – very handy. One particular widget from Apple is Smart Stack, which bundles together a variety of widgets into one oblong-shaped box. You can swipe through this to see the others, or Smart Stack will automatically change the widget based on time of day and your usual activity.

The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 14, is now available for download, and you’ll notice several visual tweaks when you first install it. Notably, your home screen looks very different, with an app library, widgets everywhere, and a new look for Siri.

First things first – make sure you upgrade to iOS14 - Open the Settings app, tap General, and then Software Update. Your device will search for an update and will then start downloading it. It will take a few minutes and will automatically restart, (so make sure you initiate this when you aren’t doing anything important).

Video If you’re watching a movie on your iPhone but need to switch to a messaging app to respond to someone, Apple’s new Picture-in-Picture mode means you don’t need to hit the pause button.

Instead, you’ll see a floating screen over your home screen (or any other app).

Here are the major changes; App Library For years, the iPhone home screen has been a grid of app icons that go on for pages and pages.

In iOS 14, you can now hide pages of apps you don’t use often, and a scroll to the right will let you access your new App Library with apps grouped

All in all a great upgrade and worth having a play about with! For a full read-up and how-to guides, visit https://9to5mac.com/guides/ios-14/

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QUIZ ANSWERS General Knowledge from page 32 The Human Body 1. shoulder and upper back; 2. size 10; 3. the neck / windpipe; 4. ten pints, the same as a man; 5. the world’s first baby created by IVF - the test tube baby.

Sport 1. Sir Dave Brailsford; 2. Lawrence Dallaglio; 3. Gareth Edwards; 4a) speedway, b) tennis, c) darts; 5. lightweight.

Food and Drink 1. slicing runner beans, making fizzy drinks, churning butter; 2.

Leicestershire (Melton Mowbray); 3. coffee beans; 4. Wotsits, Scampi Fries, Skips; 5. carbon dioxide.

Famous People 1. Janet Ellis, Sophie’s mum, was a Blue Peter presenter; 2. Chris Evans; 3. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln; 4. they are the three most recent Pope’s; 5. Olivia Coleman, Danny Devito, Glenda Jackson.

The Arts 1. Norway; 2. Natural History Museum in London; 3. a) sculpture, b) painting, c) ceramics; 4 a) red, b) blue, c) red again; 5. Tony Hall.

Geography 1. Bolivia; 2. Denmark (561 feet), Estonia (1,043 feet), Moldova (1,411 feet) Ben Nevis is 4,413 feet; 3.a) Derbyshire, b) Greater Manchester, c) Lancashire ; 4. Germany and France; 5. Madagascar, Easter Island, Madeira.

Pets 1. Felix and Molly; 2. Alfie and Bella; 3. dogs (23%), cats (16%), rabbits (1%); 4. an old, saggy cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams; 5.a) Ethel Skinner, b) Mrs, and then Joe, Mangel; c) John Noakes.

Pop Music 1. “West End Girls”; 2. “Desire”; 3. “Beat Again”; 4. Depeche Mode have not had a number 1; 5. “Just Like a Pill”.

Pot Pourri 1. Sergei Skripal; 2. Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, Baron; 3. Natasha Kaplinsky and Brendan Cole; 4. South and Central America; 5. Dave Prowse who played the physical role of Darth Vader.

Who Am I? Idris Elba, Kate Humble, Bill Clinton, Maisie Williams Children’s Puzzles from page 48 Who Am I? (l to r) Danial Radcliffe, Kate Middleton (Duchess of Cambridge), Claudia Winkelman, Lionel Messi What Am I? (l to r) Paella, Bowler, Emerald, Edam Where Am I? Italy (Leaning Tower of Pisa), China (the Great Wall), England (Cabot Tower, Bristol), USA (the Grand Canyon).

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Fundamental Changes to Use Classes On 30th June 2020, the government announced plans to “radically reform” the planning system, allowing more types of commercial premises to repurpose. On 1st September 2020 The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 (‘2020 Regulations’) came into force. Significantly, the Regulations: 1 - revokes Parts A and D of the Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 in relation to England (subject to transitional and savings provisions) (regulation 2).

Part A contained use classes A1 to A5 which includes uses commonly found on the high street including shops, cafes and takeaways.

Part D contained use classes D1 which are Nonresidential institutions and D2 which is Assembly and leisure.

2 - inserts three new use classes: • Class E which is commercial, business and service; • Class F.1 which is learning and nonresidential institutions; • Class F.2 which is local community.

3 - confirms more uses as sui generis (which are uses in a class of their own).

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New sui generis uses The following uses are confirmed as being sui generis (in a class of their own): • A public house, wine bar or drinking establishment (currently Class A4).

• A drinking establishment with expanded food provision (currently mixed use of Class A4 with Class A3).

• A hot food takeaway for the sale of hot food where consumption of that food is mostly undertaken off the premises (currently Class A5).

• A venue for live music performance.

• A cinema (currently Class D2).

• A concert hall (currently Class D2).

• A bingo hall (currently Class D2).

• A dance hall (currently Class D2).

Generally, sui generis uses cannot be changed to any other use (including any other sui generis use) without express planning permission.

The new Class E is important, covering uses as wide reaching as nurseries, offices, financial services retail, food, gyms, healthcare, and light industry. If there is a change of use within the same use class, it will not be considered a development and will not require planning permission.

These changes are expected to increase flexibility and help high streets and town centres to adapt to the ever-changing needs of the consumers and businesses. Developers will no longer need to apply for planning permission for a change of use that fall within the now wider categories under these use classes.

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WHAT’S ON & COMMUNITY NEWS Listings continue to be a little different at the moment. Given the current restrictions on gatherings, and the continuing requirement for social distancing, the ongoing operation of many of the clubs, societies, choirs, social groups, fitness sessions and companionship groups remains difficult. So rather than reiterate activities in each listing that may not now be possible it seemed sensible to just list the local groups who have asked to feature, together with their contact names and details.

on 10 November is on “Prehistoric Potters”.

For more information visit our website www. theartssociety-bristol.org.uk Babbers Radio Show info@ujimaradio.com.

Beaufort Junior Badminton Club Penny at pennyshears@googlemail.com 07941 013 514 Biodanza Classes Sheila on 07731 697 938.

If, going forward, the organisers of any group that wants a fuller updated listing, detailing how they will be running things in a coronavirus-compliant manner, wishes to get in touch then I will be more than happy to include them from next month.

So, here are the regularly listed clubs and groups together with ther latest contact details I have. If these are incorrect please accept my apologies, and do please update me by emailing andy@ bcmagazines.co.uk.

Bridge Tuition 07837300073 tc.stygall@gmail.com Bristol & Clifton Dickens Society 0117 927 9875 www.dickens-society.org.uk Bristol Alexander School www.bristolalexanderschool.co.uk Caroline at cchalk19@gmail.com

All Together Now Bristol Choir info@alltogethernowchoir.com www.alltogethernowchoir.com

Bristol Astronomical Society www.bristolastrosoc.org.uk

Bristol French Circle/Cercle français de Bristol For the time being we are meeting on Zoom.

Our first two talks will be: 15 October – ‘Le Familistère de Guise, la cité ouvrière idéale’ by Brigitte Thibaut; and 29 October – ‘Quelques traits et expressions français expliqués par Jean de la Fontaine’ by Thierry Viennois. Do visit our website at www.cfbristol.org.uk and get in touch with Charlotte if you would like more information – you will be most welcome! A bientôt – nous attendons avec impatience faire votre connaissance! Charlotte - charlottejanetaylor10@ gmail.com / 07976 922636

Bristol Bridge Club with the new English Bridge School is pleased to offer a new On Line Course for beginners, starting Saturday 3rd October, 2020 (10a to 12 noon). Lessons will include live tutorial and practice on line. The first session will be free. Course cost is £100 plus a subscription of £5 per month for the online material (first month free). Concessions for students and those in receipt of benefits. www.bristolbridgeclub.co.uk for more details.

Bristol Brunel Lions Club Bill O’Neill at lion.bill@virginmedia.com

Alpine Garden Society 0117 967 3160.

Bristol Cabot Choir admin@bristolcabotchoir.org www.bristolcabotchoir.org

The Arts Society Bristol has recommenced activities and we welcome new members.

Lectures on a wide range of arts related subjects are given by specialists in their own field and are being delivered by internet until we are able to resume evening meetings at Redmaids’ High School, Bristol BS9 3AW. The lecture on 13 October is on “Peggy Guggenheim and her impact on twentieth century art” and the lecture

Bristol Chamber Choir www.bristolchamberchoir.org.uk Rae Ford on 0117 939 1685 rodcoomber@aol.co.uk Bristol Choral Society launch ‘The Big Picture’

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WHAT’S ON & COMMUNITY NEWS City Voices Bristol www.cityvoicesbristol.org

CD on Friday 23 October 2020, 19.30-21.00, online on Zoom.Celebrate with us the release of our first recording of works for choir, piano and percussion with classical label Delphian. Our musical director Hilary Campbell will be joined

by Judith Weir, Master of the Queen’s music and composer of the ‘The Big Picture’. You’ll be able to hear extracts from the album, which includes music by Weir, McDowall and Chilcott, and interviews with composers and performers.

It is all crisp, exciting and evocative music, and represents a new departure for the choir, moving into the recording world. We’ll be hosting the evening online using the web video conferencing platform Zoom. Once you have bought your ticket you will be given access to the Event Page where you will find details of how to join the event. The event ticket price of £16.76 includes a copy of the CD, which was recorded in January 2020 at St George’s, Bristol. Further copies of the CD will be available to buy shortly from our website, bristolchoral.co.uk. To get a ticket (including the CD posted to you) please visit www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bristol-choral-societysthe-big-picture-cd-launch-event-cd-includedtickets-117884484667.

Civil Service Retirement Fellowship Tony McKenna on 0117 950 2059 Clifton Rotary Club www.cliftonrotary.org secretary@cliftonrotary.org The Clifton Singers contact@cliftonsingers.co.uk www.cliftonsingers.co.uk Country Market in WoT Sue Sills on 0117 962 8306.

Dancercise in Sea Mills Anna on 07852 988 895 Discussion Group Bob Broomfield on 0117 962 1061 Fielder Club gloriasimmonds@hotmail.co.uk Filtones Choir www.thefiltones.weebly.com

Bristol Community Gamelan keithripley27@gmail.com phone 9444241

Friendly Bridge SW Stoke Bishop friendlybridgesw.org.uk

Bristol Grandparents Support Group 07773 258 270 / www.bgsg.co.uk

Friends of Welsh National Opera will sadly not be able to resume our monthly meetings at Redmaids School until early next year, because of the pandemic and the challenge schools are having keeping students and staff safe. We look forward to welcoming you in 2021. Look out for further news here or contact Melanie David at melaniejdavid@btinternet.com or on 01934 842014 for more information.

Bristol Morris Men www.bristolmorrismen.co.uk Grant on 0117 944 2165 Bristol Philatelic Society 0117 956 7853 Bristol Scrabble Club Sue on 0117 924 7871

Friends of the Downs & Avon Gorge www.friendsofthedowns.org

Bristol Shambhala Meditation Group bristol.shambhala.info

Friends of Old Sneed Park Nature Reserve www.spnaturereserve.com Next working party will be held on October 17, 10am to 12 noon. All volunteers must reserve a place please email. fospnr@gmail.com. Please bring your own tools and refreshments’ All welcome.

Bristol Shiplovers Society www.bristolshiplovers.co.uk Carers Support Centre 0117 965 2200 www.carerssupportcentre.org.uk

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WHAT’S ON & COMMUNITY NEWS Frisbee Club North Bristol Ultimate on Facebook jake.f.waller@gmail.com.

Keep Fit in WoT Louisa on 0772 509 1429

Happy Days Memory Café Tony on 0117 968 1002

Keep Fit classes Eileen Scott on 07969 929 733 www.keepfit.org.uk

Henbury ‘Blaise’ Womens’ Institute 0117 962 9400

Keep Fit for Living Gill Porter on 01275 877 131.

Henbury Singers Maggie Cavanna 0117 973 4794 secretary@henburysingers.org

Knit & Crochet Café 07561 523 919 brisknitcro@gmail.com

Henleaze (Evening) Townswomen’s Guild Shirley on 0117 962 2243

Ladies Badminton, Stoke Bishop Pat on 0117 914 9511

Henleaze Bowling Club Tom Logan on 0117 962 1669 hbcsec@henleazebowlingclub.org.uk

Ladies Badminton, WoT Elizabeth on 0117 968 1759 Lunch Club, WoT Rachel on 0117 330 8503 Alison on 0117 962 9715

Henleaze Garden Club Brian Dury 0117 9621227 www.henleazegardenclub.co.uk

Marie Curie fundraising Helen Isbell on 0117 924 7275 Helen.Isbell@mariecurie.org.uk

Henleaze Flower Club Kath on 01454 412087 Marg on 0117 9075724

Menopause Matters Tricia Worthington on 07962 892 060 tricia_worthington@msn.com

Henleaze Ladies’ Choir Jean on 0117 9624466 Jane on 07752 332278

Mosaic Singers David Vicary on 0797 346 0994.

Henleaze Seniors Film Club www.homeinstead.co.uk/bristolnorth

Henleaze St Peters Keep Fit Class Louisa on 07725 091 429

National Garden Scheme are delighted that many of our gardens in England and Wales are now open. All visitors must pre-purchase tickets on our website for a timed slot at their garden of choice. All funds raised will go to the Help Support Our Nurses campaign. For full details please visit www.ngs.org.uk

Hydrotherapy Exercise Sessions Chris & Ali Cowley on 07971 086 628 www.healthyhydrotherapy.co.uk

The National Trust Bristol Centre Janet Stanton on 0117 456 3497 www.ntbristolcentre.btck.co.uk

Instep Club for Widows and Widowers Donna on 01275 832 676 Wilma on 0117 962 8895

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At the end I have added a brief biography of all those who served in the FAU, but some I am having problems with, including a couple who were great friends of my parents, John B. Frazer known as Jack and his wife Ruth and daughter Janet, who lived at 197 Stoke Lane in Westbury-on-Trym after the war, which is the last address in my parent’s visitor’s book in 1950. I have since found out that sometime between then and 1959, Jack died quite young. But his daughter could certainly still be alive.

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Jack’s middle name was Balmer, which I presume was a family name. He had served throughout the war with my father, Ralph Barlow - in the Middle East, Africa and India.

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I am wondering if, by chance, there might be anyone in the locality, who might still remember the family and could enlighten me about what became of them.

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