Brooklea House, Brislington and the Budgett Link
First, as the March 2025 BAFHS journal amply illustrates with its article on Ridgeway Park Cemetery, it is easy for family historians and conservationists to overlap, which is why a couple of paragraphs in...
‘Non-affectionate’ memories of H.H. & S. Budgett
As told to me by the late Leslie Phillips, 1905-1995. Leslie said “I worked for H.H. & S. Budgett from October 1927 to May 1928. I was their first graduate entrant, having come straight...
The Budgetts of Kingswood Hill
“The Budgetts”, originally written about forty years ago, was my first attempt at the story of a family and therefore I call it part of my “Juvenilia”. It arose out of a conversation with...
Charles Perrett: Totterdown’s Father Christmas
The following article was originally printed in the September 2016 edition of the South Bristol Voice. “This may seem a silly question,” one of the mums said at the Grand Opening of the playground...