World War One layers added to Know Your Place
Two new layers have been added to Know Your Place that cover all the known sites in Bristol that have a relationship to the First World War.
A lot of this information is the result of the Avonmouth and Shirehampton WWI All Our Stories project that was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund with support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities funding.
This information includes images and audio about the Shirehampton Remount Depot that we have been researching. These stories were collected at the community events held in Shirehampton and Avonmouth in 2013.
Images collected at Know Your Bristol stories events
The layers include the sites of former munitions factories as well as all the properties that were put to temporary use as military hospitals like Bishop’s Knoll.
The WWI points layer contains links to images of war memorials as well as historic images that include some from the Vaughan Collection that are being researched as part of the Know Your Bristol On the Move project.
Over the coming year as the First World War commemorations take place further information will be added to these layers including a whole layer of Great War Stories that is being created as part of the Bristol 2014 Heritage Lottery Funded project.
I am creating an evening telling the story of Stoke Bishop and World War I in collaboration with the Stoke Bishop & Sneyd Park Local History Group. I should like to feature a short piece in it about convoys on the road to Avonmouth via Stoke Bishop and Shirehampton and the Remount centre at Shirehampton. Would you be able to supply me with photographs I could use on that evening? Our event will be performed at 7.30 on Sat 18 October in St Mary Magdalene Church in Stoke Bishop.
Thank you
Keith Sheather
Hi Keith, the main images should be on Know Your Place. Please ensure you reference the site for any material you use. I’ll try and ensure I come to your event.
Pete