CHIS (Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society)

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Bibliography

• CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE by Adrian Andrews and Michael Pascoe. Published 2008 by Broadcast Books on behalf of the Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust. £4.95, 52 pages 133 colour illustrations, images and diagrams. ISBN: 978 1 874092 49 0 This beautiful little book encapsulates the long, fascinating history of the many plans to span the Avon Gorge with a new bridge. It includes well over a hundred images, many of them rarely seen or previously unpublished, as well as fine contemporary watercolour paintings of the gorge by Samuel Jackson and Samuel Coleman.
  Copies are on sale now at the bridge Visitor Centre and at other local outlets.
• Bristol Before the Camera: the city in 1820-30 by Shena Stoddard. Redcliffe Press 2001.
  Watercolurs and drawings from the Braikenridge Collection.
• Sculpture in Bristol by Douglas Merritt. Redcliffe Press 2002.
  A highly readable and well illustrated guide.
• The Paty family: Makers of 18th Century Bristol by Gordon Priest. Redcliffe Press 2003.
  The famous family responsible for much of Clifton's architecture.
• From Bristol to the Sea: Artists, the Avon Gorge and Bristol Harbour by Francis Greenacre. Redcliffe Press 2OO5.
  A beautifully written and illustrated description
• Life in Victorian Bristol by Helen Reid. Redcliffe Press 2005.
  Many excerpts from the Clifton Chronicle
• Brunel's Bristol by Angus Buchananan and Michael Williams. Redcliffe Press 2005.
• Hotwells and Cliftonwood (Images of England Series) by Sue Stops and Pauline Barnes. Tempus Publishing 2005
• The Clifton Guide by Michael Pascoe. Redcliffe Press 1985
  A good introductory guide to Clifton.
• A Chronicle of Clifton and Hotwells by Helen Reid. Redcliffe Press 1992
  An entertaining account of Clifton's history.
• On the Waterfront: the Hotwells Story by Helen Reid and Sue Stops. Redcliffe Press 2002
  The changing face of Hotwells with appealing illustrations.
• History of Clifton by Donald Jones. Phillimore 1992
  Fascinating in-depth study by a professional historian.
• Clifton Suspension Bridge by Pitkin Unichrome 1996
  The story of a bridge 110 years in the making.
• Clifton Suspension Bridge by Geoffrey Body 1976. Published by Moonraker Press
• Clifton and Durdham Down by Elizabeth Ralph. 1965
• Bristol as it Was by Reece Winstone
  A series of volumes showing photos of Clifton and Bristol from the 1840s onwards.
• The Floating Harbour. A Landscape History of Bristol City Docks by John Lord and Jem Southam. Redcliffe Press 1983. History of the Docks with superb photos
• Clifton; a Place for All Seasons Video by Michael Pascoe.
  Obtainable from local shops or email from sales@1st-take.com
• Go Home and Do the Washing! By Lorna Brierley and Helen Reid. Broadcast Books. Describes the hidden, yet enormous contribution to education, social service, medicine, the arts and politics that the pioneering women of Bristol have made over the last 300 years, including Eliza Walker Dunbar (pioneer of health provision) who lived in Clifton.
• The Fight for Bristol (Planning and the growth of public protest) by Priest and Cobb. Bristol Civic Society and Redcliffe Press 1980. Gives a good description of the Grand Spa Hotel scheme which started CHIS off.

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