New book on Shirehampton now available

The Society has added a new book to the webshop, “Shirehampton sketches: people, places, buildings, times” by Richard Coates.

Shirehampton is a place of great and varied interest, both historical and modern, including Avonmouth, one of the most important middle-sized ports and specialised industrial zones in England,

The book deals with the many different aspects of life and history in the Shire area, some well known, many tantalizingly hidden in plain sight, with much on historic local people, buildings and other features that you can see today when you visit the area.

Richard Coates has lived in Shirehampton since 2006, working as a researcher and teacher in language, place-names and surnames at the University of the West of England.     

His other book, which we also stock, is about the local history of another part of our area “Places, Names and History in North-West Bristol” – both books are highly recommended.