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Babies in unmarked graves
Eastville Workhouse, BRHG research project There is rightly scandal in the press at the 800 babies buried in unmarked graves in Galway. But this was not a unique occurrence. Bristol Radical History...
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Remembering Eastville Workhouse
Public meeting St Anne's Church, St Leonards Road, Greenbank, Bristol, BS5 6JN Over the last two years local historians from Bristol Radical History Group (BRHG) have been researching an old burial...
View ArticleRemembering Eastville Workhouse Public Meeting Report
The public meeting on Eastville Workhouse and the Rosemary Green burial ground on Thursday 28th August was very successful. A lively crowd of 35 residents turned up to St Annes' Church Hall in...
View ArticleEastville Workhouse Planning Meeting
Planning meeting regarding Eastville Workhouse and remembering the paupers buried in Rosemary Green. Thursday 9th October 7.00pm-9.00pm. St Anne's Church, St Leonards Road, Greenbank, Bristol, BS5 6JN...
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Eastville Workhouse and the unmarked graves of paupers at Rosemary Green
Photograph sent in to BRHG by Pauline Hendy who lived on Robertson Rd as a child. The workhouse frontispiece and clock turret are shown from her back garden. The large house on the right is the...
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Victims of the Poor law
A woman before the courts in 1882 said that she preferred the gaol to Eastville workhouse as ‘in the latter she was three quarter starved and worked to death’ Before the end of the Second World War and...
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This is the intro to the Eastville Workhouse Project. The post Eastville Workhouse appeared first on Bristol Radical History Group.
View ArticleBristol Local History Bookfair 2014
Saturday 6 December 2014 at Bristol Records Office. 'B' Bond Warehouse (via Create Centre) Smeaton Road Bristol BS1 6XN Free entry. 10am-1pm Family history advice from the Bristol & Avon Family...
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Rosemary Green Burial Ground Data
The files listed on this page contain data by decade of the burials at Rosemary Green (marked "Burial Ground (Disused)" on the map below). These are people who died in Eastville Workhouse and were...
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Inside Out West
Inside Out West will have an item on the Eastville Workhouse unmarked graves project on Monday 19th January at 19:30 on BBC1. The Eastville Workhouse project was launched in 2012 after some members of...
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Rosemary Green Update
So far the data we have managed to get on the website and the data we have that will get up loaded eventually, looks like this: 1855-59 - to be released 1860-69 - released 18-01-15 1870-79 - released...
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1880s Rosemary Green Data Available
We have completed the data from the Eastville Workhouse Rosemary Green burial ground for the year 1880-89. The PDF file is available on the Rosemary Green Burial Ground Data article. Still to be...
View ArticleEastville Workhouse Memorial Group Meeting
A meeting for those interested in raising money to get a memorial put on Rosemary Green to the people that died in Eastville Workhouse and were buried in unmarked graves. The post Eastville Workhouse...
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Eastville And Stapleton Workhouses
These pictures were found in Bristol Central Reference Library. For permission to reproduce them please contact refandinfo@bristol.gov.uk. The front of Eastville Workhouse by Samuel Loxton...
View ArticleEastville Workhouse Memorial Project – Public Consultation Meeting
Tuesday 4th August 7.30pm Scout Resource Centre, Gadshill Rd, Eastville, BS5 6PU All Welcome As you probably know, East Park housing estate was originally the site of Eastville Workhouse and part of...
View ArticlePauper deaths and burials in Victorian England
Funeral ceremonies were very important to middle class Victorians, with detailed and often elaborate rituals to mark the passing of cherished family members and those deemed ‘important’. But for...
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Eastville Workhouse Memorial
Here are some pictures of sculptor Matthew Billington working on the memorial to mark the Eastville Workhouse burial ground on Rosemary Green. Over 4000 men, women and children were buried on the site...
View ArticleEastville Workhouse Burial Ground: Memorial Unveiling Ceremony
On Rosemary Green, Eastville, BS5 6LB. Residents of East Park Estate are to unveil a memorial to more than 4,000 men, women and children who died in Eastville’s notorious Workhouse between 1851 and...
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Book Launch
In 2012 some radical historians poring over old maps of East Bristol came across a disused burial ground at Rosemary Green close to the site of Eastville Workhouse at 100 Fishponds Rd. Over the...
View ArticleOpening the archive
Members of the Eastville Workhouse Memorial Group have used death registers at Bristol Record Office to identify the people given pauper's burials at Rosemary Green adjacent to the site of Eastville...
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