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The death and funeral of Lucy Moore in Bristol in 1920 attracted a lot of local attention. She was Bristol’s only Black American resident celebrity, and, it was claimed, the fattest woman in the world. Learn more about this timid star of the travelling circus.

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Bournemouth Graphic - Thursday 05 April 1917

Bournemouth Graphic - Friday 27 July 1917

Leeds Mercury - Friday 01 October 1920

Leeds Mercury - Monday 04 October 1920

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The Plane Crash Near Bristol inquest on Capt. F. L. Barnard, the famous pilot, who met his death between Filton and Winterbourne in the machine which he was going to fly in the King's Cup Race.

Evidence showed that the engine was misfiring, and it became evident that the pilot was going to make a forced landing. The "plane appeared to be under perfect control until came near the ground in a field."

Find out what happened that fateful day when an aviation hero and celebrity met his end.

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Western Daily Press - Friday 29 July 1927

Western Daily Press - Saturday 30 July 1927

The Scotsman - Thursday 04 August 1927

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HMS Formidable was an 84-gun second rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 May 1825 at Chatham Dockyard. With a crew of 700 she was one of the Navy's largest ships at that time.

The Training Ship Formidable came in to being in 1869 after several Bristol businessmen petitioned the Admiralty to lease them an ex Naval Vessel for the training of young boys as Seamen. For decades, the ship took in troublesome boys from all walkd of life and gave them an education and a career, steering them from a probably life of crime. Listen to the amazing tale of the Industrial School Ship Formidable.

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Portishead Nautical Trust

Western Daily Press - Tuesday 12 October 1869

West Somerset Free Press - Saturday 29 October 1870 Boy's rescue

Bristol Mercury - Saturday 04 February 1871

1881 Census

Freepages

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Benjamin Purnell, 51, formerly soldier in the Wiltshire Regiment, was charged with the wilful murder of his wife, Emily Purnell, in Devizes, on the 9th November 1889. What was the final straw in their turbulent marriage? Was it another woman, money or something else? Find out in this thrilling new tale from the past.

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Ancestry

Find-A-Grave

South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920

Wiltshire Museum, Devizes.

Bristol Mercury - Tuesday 12 November 1889

Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette - Thursday 21 November 1889

Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette - Thursday 28 November 1889

Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette - Thursday 12 December 1889

Bristol Mercury - Tuesday 10 December 1889

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William Arnold Ridley, OBE (7 January 1896 – 12 March 1984) was an English playwright and actor, earlier in his career known for writing the play The Ghost Train and later in life for portraying the elderly Private Godfrey in the British sitcom Dad's Army. But did you know that he was a veteran of both World wars as well as a member of the Home Guard in real life? Find out some of his amazing experiences from the front line and what happened to him on his return.

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GRO Register of Births: MAR 1896 5c 543 BATH – William Arnold Ridley

GRO Register of Deaths: JUN 1984 13 934 HILLINGDON, MIDDLESEX – William Arnold Ridley, DoB = 7 January 1896 aged 88

Arnold Ridley, The Train and Other Ghosts (1970c)

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Cecil was found tied up and drowned in the bath. He had also been hit over the head at least six times with a flat blunt instrument.

Letters were found that showed that the friendship between his wife and a young family friend had became more and they were in love. 

So what happened that fateful night in December 1946?

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Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Saturday 11 January 1947

Dundee Evening Telegraph - Saturday 08 March 1947

Dundee Courier - Monday 10 March 1947

Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 05 March 1947

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They were heroes. Songs were written in their honour, engravings of them were sold, and their names were known to everyone, including those who vehemently opposed the sport.

Bare knuckle fighting became one of the most popular sports in Georgian England: it drew huge crowds, involved vast sums of money

Amongst the crowd of sailors, dockers, colliers and tough locals in a Bristol fair, watching a fight, was 14 year old Jem Belcher, a butcher's boy who was mesmerised by what he was seeing and dreamed of entering the ring himself.

Listen to the story of his rise to fame and eventual fall.

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SOURCES

Luke G. Williams, author, Richmond Unchained, 2015, Amberley Publishing

Dennis Brailsford, Bareknuckles: A Social History of Prize-Fighting (Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1988), pp. 25-6.

John Ford, Prizefighting: The Age of Regency Boximania (Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1971), pp. 65-82The Universal Register, 20 December 1787.

Lucienne Boyce.

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On the afternoon of the 15th, between 4 and 5pm, Joseph Kiddle was left alone in charge when a group of visitors arrived to see the animals. He showed them around but, to their disappointment, the lion was asleep in the farthest corner of its den.

The sightseers had paid money in order to see wild animals “being wild”, and so it fell to the hapless assistant keeper to oblige them. They ended up getting more than they bargained for.

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Thanks in advance for your support.

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Bristol Mercury - Monday 19 February 1827

Ancestry.com

Western Daily Press - Wednesday 20 July 1932

The Combat Between the Lion Nero & the Dogs. Warwick : Sharpe, Printer 1825

Cornishman - Thursday 21 April 1932

Bristol Mercury - Saturday 16 July 1836

Birmingham Daily Gazette - Saturday 26 March 1932

West London Observer - Friday 22 April 1932

Secret Coventry By David McGory

Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser - Saturday 26 July 1902

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As a nurse who overcame racism within the establishment to go to the Crimean War battlefields under her own steam in her 50s, Mary represents compassion, bravery, entrepreneurialism and sheer determination. Those fine qualities speak for themselves. What was true for Mary in the Victorian era is equally true today: racism must always be challenged and at every level in society.

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The Mary Seacole Trust

Cheltenham Mercury - Saturday 30 August 1856

The Bristol Mercury Saturday 1st November 1856

The Morning Post (London) 9th Jan 1857

Hampshire Chronicle - Saturday 08 August 1857

Findagrave.com

Jamaican High Commission

Duberly FI. Journal kept during the Russian war: from the departure of the army from England in April 1854, to the fall of Sebastopol. London: Elibron Classics; 2000. First published 1856 by Longman.

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Edward Charles Ingram Richards, aged 25, was tall and debonair. Always genial and ready with a smile. He'd would willingly lend a hand to a pal that was down and was regarded with the highest esteem by all his colleagues at the brewery he worked at. A married man with one child, a daughter aged 2 years, he came home late from work one evening and was mortally wounded by burglar.

That was the start of an amzing story that captured the imagination of the country with one man's desperate attempts to get home!

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Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser - Saturday 02 January 1926

Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser - Saturday 06 March 1926

Belfast Telegraph - Saturday 13 February 1926

Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 02 March 1926

Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 20 August 1929

The Treacherous Mr. Trebisch by Eliza Segal

The self-made villain: A biography of I.T.Trebitsch Lincoln, By David Lampe & Laszlo Szenasi

British Executions

Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Saturday 02 January 1926

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