JulianonAvoncliff Halt – A HALT NO MOREFascinating piece of local history. It’s my first time on the K&A canal and I’m moored nearby, I was just looking for information on the aqueduct when I chanced upon this well written piece, thank…
Geoff AndrewsonThe Old Court Hotel (Known now as Ancliff Square)The census reports of the Avoncliff workhouse are available as a special document (because it was an institution). Frank Stanbrook and family are there in the 1891 census and no doubt the others are t…
Vivian CopperonAvoncliff Private Car Park. ExpensiveI was surprised just how expensive it is. We now go to Hartley Farm Tearoom which offers its customers free parking and is in Winsley. https://www.hartley-farm.co.uk/
Bob FisheronAvoncliff Private Car Park. ExpensiveWhy was £10,000 of local taxpayers money given to a private resident / landowner on the premise of a carpark serving the community locally and at large. Did they not have to agree some sort of local c…
Hilary VogelonAvoncliff MillsI am interested in Weavers Mill as my father bought it in derelict condition about 1947/48. He made living accommodation for us in Riverhouse. We lived there till he sold it in 1962. I would be intere…
Lym FraseronThe Old Court Hotel (Known now as Ancliff Square)I visited the Bradford-on-Avon museum in 2015 and found no records of Avoncliff as a workhouse. My grandfather Frank Stanbrook was the schoolmaster there and his wife, Elizabeth, was the matron in 189…
Alan DellonThe Old Court Hotel (Known now as Ancliff Square)Re. The Old Court - Dell family. Just a short comment regarding two of my nephews comments regarding ‘Buds of May’, This myth originated as the result of an entry in a ‘write a story’ competition. My…
lisa ebdononAvoncliff MillsMy parents John and Betty Bowles lived in Weaver Mill and totally renovated it into the beautiful house it is now, my father designed and had the bridge that connects the Millhouse to the main House m…
Joan GoodingonAvoncliff MillsDo you have any record of the Riordan family living in the mill on the Winsley side during the 1950s?