Bristol Mercury: Friday 6th March 1885

Redland and Kingsdown Workmen’s Flower Show: Canon Percival on the Homes of the Poor: Yesterday the fourteenth industrial exhibition and show of the Window Grown Plants for the district of Redand and Kindsdown was held in the school room attached to St. Saviour’s Church, Woolcott Park. … … Flowers and Plants: … Single Fern or Ferns in pot; window-grown: 1st, Mr. Lapham; 2nd, Thierry Pinsent; 3rd Mrs. Lewis … The society’s prize for the best pair of succulent plants: 1st, Thierry Pinsent … Collection of grasses gathered and dried by the exhibitor: 1st Mrs. Lewis; 2nd Mrs. Gardiner; 3rd Mrs. Pinsent …


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Referenced

GRO0595 Bristol: Louisa Broad: 1837 – 1926
GRO0901 Bristol: William Henry Thiery Pinsent: 1865 – 1915