Mary Mason.B.A.

Mon. Sept 1st.  There came letters from Sir Thomas Fairfax, his Quarters which reply that 2000 Clubman having put themselves under the Command of his Excellency,  the set officers over them and with some of his own men sent them to take in Portishead Point, a Garrison of the Enemies about six miles from Bristol, which is a strong Garrison: and stops the passage of Kings Rd, a Place  to be kept against a great Strength and of such consequence, that it is worth their lying down every since their being before Bristol: and when the Enemy heard that a Party were coming to besiege them, they were much perplexed: divers of them left the Garrison and went home; and when they came before it, they sent from the Fort for a Parley, which was granted, and Wed. the 27th of August 1645, it was agreed.
1. That within 48 hours they should deliver up the Garrison and Fort of Portishead, Sir Thomas Fairfax for the use and service of Parliament.
2. That they should all take an Oath never to take up arms against the Parliament, further, but every man go home to his own dwelling and there remain.
3. That they should have all Quarters for their lives.
4. That they shall leave Forthwith all the ordinance, arms and Ammunition. Sir Thomas Fairfax was undemolished or hurt.
All which was accordingly performed on Thurs. the 28th of August, and we took in the Fort 6 pieces of Ordinance, 200 Arms, all their Powder, Bullet, Match, Ammunition, and Baggage, and his Excellancy hath put into it 400 men, well armed to keep it for the Parliament, with a piece of Ordance more, and so hath made Bristol a land Town, and the ship that was coming with ammunition to relive Bristol, is this means kept back, and some of our ships are putting out towards her, todo what they can for the taking of her.

Weston in Gordano School Log Book.
1878 May 31st.

School year ends today. Very sorry to say three boys were on Tuesday last guilty of writing filthy words on pieces of paper and passing them to their fellows. Fortunately it was defeated before two of the pieces were read. I gave each boy a canning after school was over. They  have since expressed themselves as being very sorry for their misbehaviour.

Measurement of Schoolroom Walton in Gordano in 1877.
Length 36 feet & 3 ins.   

Breadth 18 feet & 3 ins.   

Height 12 feet & 3 ins.

Weston in Gordano 1880 Jun 4th

 
Eliza Sulley a 2nd Standard girl has burnt her hand very badly and was obliged to stay from school on Thursday and Friday.

Portishead Flower Show  Sep 1874
Best kept and cultivated cottagers garden.
1st Mark Coombs.
2nd Robert Philips.
3rd George Patch.

Clapton in Gordano.

Clapton takes its name from the Clapton family who owned the Manor from 1140-1615.

1907 Aug 17 Outing.

 

The employees on Sir Henry Miles Abbots Leigh estates had their annual outing to Weston-super-Mare, the party travelling by boat. At the lunch the toast of Sir Henry and Lady Miles and family was enthusiastically honoured. Fine weather prevailed and a most enjoyable day was spent.

1819 Sep 23rd
The two eldest sons of C.A.Elton, esq. Abraham and Charles, about 13 and 14 tears old, while amusing themselves apart from the rest of the family, on a small island called Bernbeck, near the bathing place at Weston-super-Mare, by the flowing of the tide on the causeway that separated the island from the shore, were drowned in their attempt to regain it. All search for  the bodies proved unavailing.
The bodies of the two youths eventually floated to the shore of the family estate at Clevedon, where they were buried by their grandfather, the Rev. Sir Abraham Elton, bart without permitting his son to share the renewed affliction of witnessing their injured remains.
Mr. Elton`s grief found vent and consolation, as his tone of mind recovered strength, in ``The Brothers, a Monody.``
History of Bristol. 1824  John Evans, Printer.

    

      More Olde News

     The Docks, Portishead    

Lady Bay & Lovers` Walk, Clevedon.

          Pill