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Museum Publications

The museum publishes and sells a number of books of local interest. The following books are currently available at the museum :

 Frenchay Chronicles Series

1 . Professor Golla of Frenchay.                                                                £2.00

Prof Golla

The life of Professor Golla, who lived in Frenchay and worked at the Burden Institute.

2.  H.J.Wadlow of Frenchay School                                                          £1.50 

3.  Miss Robinson Remembers Frenchay  1849 - 1919.                        £1.50

Miss Robinson Remembers

4.  The Rector's Visit to New Zealand, 1907                                      out of print

5.  Frenchay Village Hall                                                                             £ 1.50

                              6. A Winterbourne Tale.  

                                        A village tragedy through the letters to Dora Adams.              out of print 

7. The History of Frenchay Hospital.                                                          £7.50

Frenchay Hospital

This history of Frenchay Hospital has now been updated and augmented with stories from people who were patients and staff during its time from 1921 to the present.

8.  Eyewitness - The 1831 Bristol Riots                                                     £1.50

Eyewitness

Accounts of the Bristol Reform Bill Riots of 1831 by local residents who saw them.

9.  Ernest Albert Sharpe - Head of Frenchay School                               £2.00

10.  Utterly Good Man - the life of F.D.Maurice.                                        £1.50

F.D. Maurice

The life of Frederick Denison Maurice, who lived in Frenchay as a young person, and who went on to be

a social reformer and founder of higher education colleges.

 

New Zealand & Frederick Tuckett related books :

Frederick Tuckett's Travels and Adventures                                             £2.00

Frederick Tuckett travelled in Europe and America. He trained with Brunel as a civil engineer.

He then travelled to New Zealand where he surveyed the coast for a suitable settlement which became Dunedin.

The 1844 Otago Survey                                                                              £9.00

Otago Survey

Some Letters and Reports                                                                         £5.00

Do not Emigrate                                                                                          £3.00

Other books include :

Echos from the Front Line / Home Front                                                  £5.95

A Village at War                                                                                         £3.00

Village at war

Winterbourne House                                                                                  £7.50

Winterbourne Gloucestershire - Elliott                                                     £7.50

Winterbourne

A comprehensive history of the people and properties of Winterbourne civil parish up to the second world war.

Frenchay and Stapleton on Postcards                                                   £4.95

Recollections of Victorian Frenchay                                                       £1.50

Memories of Frenchay                                                                             £1.00

A Grand Tour of Frenchay.                                                                      £2.00

Frenchay tour

This is an invaluable guide to the major landmarks of Frenchay.  A walk that takes you round all the main places of interest.

Anthony Purver,  Quaker                                                                          £1.50

An English Family and Grindlewald                                                        £2.00

Mariana's Holiday                                                                                     £1.50

150 Years of Frenchay Church                                                                £1.00

Around Hambrook                                                                                     £10.95

Frenchay Friends' Meeting House                                                          £1.00

Tragedy in the Caucasus                                                                         £2.00

Another Time, Another Place                                                                  £12.00

Kingswood Coal                                                                                       £6.00

            Postcards                                                                                                       30p each