Eastville Workhouse Burial Ground Memorial Unveiling Ceremony
Eastville Workhouse Burial Ground Memorial Unveiling Ceremony Rosemary Green, Eastville, BS5 6LB 11.00am Monday 16 November 2015 Download the full press release - Press Release Eastville Workhouse...
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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...
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Some reaction to today’s memorial unveiling
Download the programme from the unveiling ceremony. The BBC put an article on their website: Eastville Workhouse's 'forgotten paupers' memorial unveiled. Beautiful, moving memorial this morning on...
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Eastville Workhouse memorial unveiling programme
This is a copy of the programme handed out at the Eastville Workhouse burail ground memorial unveiling 16/11/2015. Download the programme here... The post Eastville Workhouse memorial unveiling...
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The Rosemary Green Memorial
On this site over 4000 men, women and children who died in Eastville Workhouse, known as 100 Fishponds Road, were buried in unmarked graves. A further 118 were given to the medical school. This...
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In 2015, the Eastville Workhouse Memorial Group unveiled a memorial for the 4,084 paupers buried in a mass grave at Rosemary Green. We follow them and the Bristol Radical History Group's efforts to...
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The Eastville Workhouse Memorials
Where am I? You are on the site of Eastville Workhouse, which opened its doors in 1847. In the 1930s it became an old people’s home and was finally demolished in 1972. This page is about the two...
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Plaque to mark Eastville Workhouse at 100 Fishponds Rd
100 Fishponds Rd, Pedestrian Entrance to East Trees Health Centre, Bristol BS5 6BF As part of the ongoing Eastville Workhouse history project a cast aluminium, painted plaque by local artist Mike Baker...
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Downed Local History Society. Downend Folk House, Lincombe Barn, Overndale Road, Downend, Bristol, BS16 2RW Bedminster: the true story of how the local community pulled together to uncover murder in...
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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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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...
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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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