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Contents of Posset Pieces No 6: 36 pages

1. More on the Redcliffe Bay tanks

2. Portishead Lake Grounds 1910-2009

3. Mr. Dennis Hancock

4. Commander Eric Glynne Robinson, Peace Pilot

5. The day war broke out

6. The Heinkel air crash of February 1941

7. Oliver Hicks

8. Portishead Radio Station

9. St Augustine's Church, Redcliffe Bay

10. Why the Holder/Parker family came to Portishead

11. The Mystery painting (partly solved)

12. The Walton-in-Gordano shops

13. 19th Century British Newspapers & water closets

ISBN 978-1-901084-66-5

Contents of Posset Pieces No 5: 36 pages

1. Bailey’s Mill, Portishead Dock

2. Why the Derrick & Rudge families came to Portishead

3. Portishead Library

4. Infanticide: The case of Emily white

5. A Tribute to Bob Coates compiled by his family

6. A Portishead haunting compiled

7. AP Burt of Portishead, Bag manufactures

8. Portishead Power Station

9. Battery Point - The Second World War - Part 4

10. The Oil Pipe Line, Redcliffe Bay

11. The Mystery Painting

12. Portishead’s listed buildings - Severn House

13. More on Portishead’s Victorian Sewerage System - Part 4

Contents of Posset Pieces No 4: 36 pages

1. Jennie’s Grave

2. The Nautical School Chapel - Photo

3. Golf in Portishead

4. The Diary of Mr W T Clark

5. Portishead Open Air Swimming Pool

6. The Original Sewerage system of Portishead - Part 3

7. Norman G Anstey - Holder of Leopold Medal

8. The Parry Family

9. Portishead Railways - The Flower Show 2008

10. Battery Point - Part 3 - World War One

11. Memories of Nore School, Friary Road, West Hill

12. My Work at Portishead Power Station

13. Tinkling’s Legs

Contents of Posset Pieces No 3: 36 pages

1. A Nautical School Boy

2. The case of the missing blue painted pigeons

3. Warren’s shop at the bottom of Ferndale Road

4. Wartime Memories

5. Frank Langfield

6. Hotel Como (also known as The Bay Hotel)

7. Unsightly Petrol Pumps

8. The British School, West Hill and the graveyard

9. Bristol City - Lord of Portishead Manor?

10. Battery Point - Part 3

11. Dissenters’ Certificate for the Union Independent Chapel

12. Portishead Kindergarten and Preparatory School

13. The original Portishead sewerage system - Part 2

14. A list of Portishead and North Weston’s listed buildings

Contents of Posset Pieces No 2: 36 pages

1. Place names of Portishead

2. The Savory Family

3. Smugglers in the Bay

4. Construction of the original Sewerage system in Portishead

5. Weston Lodge, The Baker and Watts families and summer holidays

6. Redcliffe Bay Roman Site

7. Battery Point

8. Archaeology in Portishead

9. Education in Portishead

10. Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway postcard

11. A Bandstand for Portishead?

Contents of Posset Pieces No 1: 28 pages

1. The buildings of Portishead’s Congregational Chapels

2. Fifty years ago

3. Mrs Elsie Rowles (nee Baker)

4. Portishead Brick and Tile Works

5. The changing place names of Portishead

6. Reports on excavations at the site of Weston-in-Gordano Manor Houses in 1958 and 1960

7. Open space at Beach Road West

8. Fiftieth Year celebrations