The BS35 Local is a community based magazine circulated in the Thornbury area. From early 2011 to Summer 2016 the magazine had regular short articles about items of local history written by members of the Thornbury & District Museum Research Group. From November 2016 articles were written for the Parish Magazine.
We have included these articles in Thornbury Roots to make them available to people living outside Thornbury or those people who may have missed the original article. Please click on the link in the Title column to download any particular article.
| Date of Issue | Title |
Includes particular mention of |
| December 2017 | Detecting History | John Champion’s school |
| October 2017 | Dunkirk | Edward Mills Grace |
| June 2017 | The Sad Case of Charity Hogg | Hannah Davis & Harriet Davis |
| March 2017 | Thornbury Nimbys | Thornbury Workhouse |
| November 2016 | There’s a cow in my parlour | Ursula Chitts |
| July 2016 | The Somme | William Noel Hodgson |
| June 2016 | The Saw Mills | Edmund Cullimore, Charles Reeves, Frances Grace, Edmund Mills Grace |
| May 2016 | The two Ronnies and ……… Who? | Lionel Riddiford, Shen & Stokefield Close |
| April 2016 | Wedding Bells |
Molly Summers, David Cogswell Owens, Austin Hodges, Edwin & Joanna Murphy |
| March 2016 | Charley Davis, the builder |
Charley Davis |
| February 2016 | Local Soldier killed in Afghanistan |
Lieutenant Hector Maclaine |
| January 2016 | 250,000 refugees come to England |
The Malt House, Morton |
| December 2015 | Pye Corner |
John Lippiatt |
| November 2015 | John Ovens |
John Ovens |
| October 2015 | A Bus is Coming! |
R. E. Knapp & Jane Day |
| September 2015 | Traffic Chaos in Thornbury |
Emma Bostock & Charles King |
| August 2015 | Always read the small print |
Frederick Luke D’Arville |
| July 2015 | “I Am That Ghost” |
Arthur Hugh Spencer Palmer |
| June 2015 | Incident at the Police Station | Sergt David Rawle, Charles Frederick Gill and Dr Edward Long |
| May 2015 | The Aukland Twins | Frederick Bishop, Hector and Thomas Sellick, Albert Edward Bevan and Kate Elizabeth Anderson |
| April 2015 | The Parliamentary Candidate | Captain Sears |
| March 2015 | Sometimes an umbrella is not enough! | |
| February 2015 | Cossham Hall – demolish or extend? | |
| January 2015 | The Fire Station | Arthur Hewlett Wilkins, Charlie Pitcher & William Sylvester Pegg |
| Christmas 2014 | Christmas Day at the Workhouse |
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| December 2014 | The Tennis Court | |
| November 2014 | A Soldiers Story | Claude Higgins |
| October 2014 | A Soldier’s Story | Charles Stanley Spencer Palmer |
| September 2014 | Memorial to a Thornbury Nurse | Elizabeth Exell |
| August 2014 | The Voyage of the Terra Nova | Captain Wilfrid Bruce |
| July 2014 | Conker the Enemy | Samuel Dennis |
| June 2014 | Thornbury’s Gas Works | John Breillat |
| May 2014 | Gabriel Pippet | Gloucester House |
| April 2014 | The Transported Lawyer | William Brodribb |
| March 2014 | Mrs Chambers quilt | Lucy Chambers, Alice Beatrice Underhill |
| February 2014 | George Trayhurn – Sheep Stealer to Gold Miner | Joseph Birt and Jonathan Muckleston Key |
| January 2014 | Dinah Riddiford and the burglary at The Seven Stars | Dinah Riddiford, Luke Riddiford and Daniel Reed |
| December 2013 | Christmas Gifts for the Troops | |
| November 2013 | Dr Edward Long | Wigmore House, Edmund Cullimore |
| October 2013 | Burning Issues | |
| September 2013 | The Police Station | |
| August 2013 | Death of a dreamer | Adrian Morgan Squire and Gloucester House |
| July 2013 | The Tallow Chandler’s Son | John Carwardine soap maker and tallow chandler |
| June 2013 | The Prisoner of War Camp | |
| May 2013 | The Littleton Whale | |
| April 2013 | The Register Office | |
| March 2013 | The Picture House | Edmund Cullimore & the Cinema |
| February 2013 | “Chemist to the Queen” | James Spencer Palmer |
| January 2013 | The Paper Makers | Kingsmill Grove & Kingsmill Grove Key |
| December 2012 | Cold as Charity | The Mayors’ Gift & Other Charities |
| November 2012 | Tomatoes and Tambourines | The Salvation Army at Cossham Hall |
| October 2012 | Miss Saise’s Cottage | Handel Cossham |
| September 2012 | Crispin Lane to Pennsylvania | George Pearce & his wife Ann (nee Gaynor) |
| August 2012 | A Town called Thornbury | Ellen Matilda Hopkins of St John Street |
| July 2012 | Bowled over by a Summer of Sport? | Thornbury Bowling Club |
| June 2012 | Wave the Flag! Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee | |
| May 2012 | Daggs | The Story of Daggs Allotments and Thomas Slimbridge |
| April 2012 | Hats off to Straw Bonnet Makers | Straw Bonnet Makers including Elizabeth Bruton |
| March 2012 | March snow causes disruption | Extreme Weather in March |
| February 2012 | Catch & Glee – The Thornbury Society of Gleemen | The Thornbury Society of Gleemen |
| January 2012 | Bring Out Your Deeds | |
| December 2011 | A Christmas play and make good cheer | |
| November 2011 | A Little Gem – 25 Years On | Thornbury Museum |
| October 2011 | Thompsons Top Shop | Albert Ernest Thompson the baker |
| September 2011 | The Malthouse | Green and Burtons at St Mary Street |
| August 2011 | Cleanliness is next to Godliness – The Baths | The Bathings |
| July 2011 | Festivals and Fete Days | Friendly Societies |
| June 2011 | A Sanitary Tale | Streamside Walk, sewage treatment and The Coombe |
| May 2011 | Where was the Widows Mantle? | 26 and 26a High Street |
| April 2011 | Battle of the Church Pews | Miss Elizabeth Sly & Joseph Williams |
| March 2011 | How many coaching inns where there in Thornbury | The Swan |