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Measles and influenza – a lesson from history…
Eastville workhouse buildings c1960 Finding epidemics During the collation of Eastville Workhouse death register data for the years 1895 to 1914, the researchers noted some unusual clusters of deaths,...
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Press releases: Standing up for the forgotten & Pauper burials
The following two press releases have been released this week (07 December 2025) and can be downloaded in pdf format here: Press release 1: Bristol Press release 2: National Press release 1: Bristol...
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What lies beneath?
Recent memorial to mark location of unmarked pauper graves in Bridgewater (Eugene Byrne) Introduction In 2015 Eastville Workhouse Memorial Group (EWMG) released the death records of more than 4,000...
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Eastville Workhouse Burial Data 1895-1914
Eastville Workhouse Register of Deaths 1907-1914 Introduction The downloadable pdf listed on this page contains transcriptions carried out by members of Eastville Workhouse Memorial Group (EWMG) of the...
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The last piece of the jigsaw
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them[ 23 ] Introduction One evening in 2010 some members of Bristol Radical History Group (BRHG) were poring over some old maps of Eastville and...
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A retelling of the investigation into the events that took place at Bedminster Union Workhouse in 1855. Step into the haunting history of The Bedminster Union Workhouse with an immersive play brought...
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The Workhouse by acta Company and Pick N Mix Theatre
Inspired by Rosemary Caldicott’s Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire BRHG are pleased to announce that Bedminster based acta and Pick N Mix Theatre have researched, written and produced a play based on...
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Eastville Workhouse, the mentally ill and systemic murder mysteries
Eastville Workhouse buildings at twilight in the late 1960s. The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act aimed to prevent the mentally afflicted from being incarcerated in workhouses for long periods. However,...
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Talk about Bedminster Union Workhouse. ‘The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire‘ Accusations of murder and cover up were reported in the press during 1855 Thursday, 7th March 2024 at 19:30 This talk by...
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Pauper burials in Greenbank Cemetery – new research
Eastville Workhouse buildings (c1960s) Monday 16 October – 7.30pm-9.00pm – Friends of Eastville Park Community Hub (Nissen Hut), Eastville Park, Near Park Avenue car park, Bristol BS5 6QG In 2015, to...
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New pauper burial research at Greenbank cemetery
Probable location of unmarked pauper graves in the west end of Greenbank cemetery Introduction From 2014-2019 Eastville Workhouse Memorial Group (EWMG) studied Rosemary Green, a piece of land...
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Eastville Workhouse Memorial Group – Final Accounts
Flyer for the first public meeting concerning the pauper burial ground at Rosemary Green (2014) Eastville Workhouse Memorial Group (EWMG) was formed in 2014 after a public meeting with residents of...
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Bedminster Union Workhouse
Clevedon Library, 37, Old Church Rd, Clevedon BS21 6NN Author Rosemary Caldicott focuses on the draconian workhouse system that housed the vulnerable poor, and in particular women and children....
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An Alternative History of Westbury-on-Trym Workhouse
Old Map of Westbury-on-Trym In November, 2019 Louise Ryland-Epton gave an engaging talk entitled ‘By Pity and by Terror? A Contrary View of Workhouses’ at the M Shed, Bristol as part of the UWE...
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‘Buried like Dogs?’
Elaborate funeral ceremonies became very important to middle-class Victorians, with increasingly meticulous rituals designed to mark the passing of family members. However, for the Victorian poor,...
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The last piece of the jigsaw
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them[1] Introduction One evening in 2010 some members of Bristol Radical History Group (BRHG) were poring over some old maps of Eastville and...
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Pauper Graves Memorial Unveiling
Site of unmarked common graves of the remains of more than 4,000 paupers at Avonview Cemetery In 2012 Bristol Radical History Group launched a project to research into the thousands of unmarked graves...
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Life and death in two Bristol Victorian workhouses
Eastville Workhouse at twilight. A transparency probably taken in the late 60s. Photographer unknown. Congresbury History Group, Congresbury Methodist Hall, 2 High St, Congresbury, Bristol BS49 5JA...
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Life and death in two Bristol Victorian workhouses
Bedminster Union Workhouse at Flax Bourton, photograph © Peter Higginbotham Clevedon Civic Society, St Andrew’s Church Centre, Old Church Road, Clevedon, BS21 7UE Rosemary Caldicott, author of The Life...
View Article100 Fishponds Road
The Kingfisher Cafe, 8 Straits Parade, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 2LE In 2012 some radical historians poring over old maps came across a disused burial ground at Rosemary Green close to the site of...
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