Tag: GRO0901

Redland and Kingsdown Workmen’s Flower Show: The fourteenth annual exhibition of the Redland and Kingsdown Workmen’s Flower and Home Encouragement Society was opened yesterday in the schoolroom adjoining St. Saviour’s Church, Woolcott Park. As the title of the society indicates, the object of the Committee of Management is to encourage among the working classes a taste for the cultivation of flowers in the homes, and to bring out that inventive talent or artistic genius may be lying dormant among the inhabitants of the district … … (discussion) … … Prize List: … Class 6. – single fern or ferns in pot, window-grown: 1^st, 5s, Mr. Lapham; 2^nd, 3s, T. Pensent, 3^rd, 2s. Mrs. Lewis … … Class 12. – The society’s prize for the best pair of succulent plants, 1^st, 5s, T. Pinsent … … Class 14, – Collection of Grasses gathered and dried by the exhibitor: 1^st, 3s 6d, Mrs. Lewis, 2nd, 2s 6d, Mrs. Gardiner; 3^rd, Mrs. Pinsent …

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

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: 1^st, Mr. Lapham; 2^nd, Thierry Pinsent; 3^rd Mrs. Lewis … The society’s prize for the best pair of succulent plants: 1^st, Thierry Pinsent … Collection of grasses gathered and dried by the exhibitor: 1^st Mrs. Lewis; 2^nd Mrs. Gardiner; 3^rd Mrs. Pinsent …

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

Industrial Exhibition and Flower Show at Redland: Adult Prizes: Flowers and Plants: Class 8: Myrtle in pot, window grown: 1^st, 4s Mrs. Tarr; 2^nd, 3s, Thierry Pinsent; 3^rd, 2s. Eliza Whitefield … Class 13: Collection of grasses, gathered and dried by exhibitor: 1^st, 3s 6d, Mrs. Pinsent; 2^nd, 2s 6d, Mrs. Gardiner; 3^rd, 1s 6d, Geo. Gover: Models, Handicraft, Home Decorations … Class 21: Widow box, not less that 2ft long, by amateurs, 1^st, 12s 6d, Chas Dowling; 2^nd, 8s, H. Pinsent; 3^rd, 5s. J. Simmons: … Children’s Prizes: … Work done in any of the public schools of the district: Class 6: Holland pinafore, by girls between 8 and 9: Prize 1s 6d; Josephine Pinsent … Class 8: Specimen needlework, girls under eleven years: 1^st, 3s, Eugene Pinsent; 2^nd, 2s, Camelia Sharland; 3^rd, 1s. Louie Jackson. … Class 25: Answers to six scripture questions, open to boys or girls not over 12 on the 1^st Jan. 1884, (prize by Mr. P. H. Vaughan): 1^st, 7s, Emily Groves; 2^nd, 4s, Eugene Pinsent; 3^rd, Edith Bradner …

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GRO0248 Bristol: Emilie Marie Eugenie Pinsent: 1873 – 1959
GRO0906 Bristol: William Henry John Pinsent: 1841 – 1923 (?)
GRO0901 Bristol: William Henry Thiery Pinsent: 1865 – 1915
GROxxxx Bristol

Flower Show and Industrial Exhibition at Redland: That exceedingly useful and very successful Institution known by the comprehensive title of the Redland and Kingsdown Workmen’s Flower Show and Home Encouragement Society opened its twelfth annual exhibition yesterday, in the school room of St. Saviour’s Church, Woolcott Park. [Description of the event followed by Adult’s Prizes, including] … Plants or flower not named in the list, window grown 1^st, Robert Jay; 2^nd, Mrs. Purchase; 3^rd Mrs. Webb; Myrtle in pot, window-grown: 1^st, Mrs. Tarr; 2^nd, Thierry Pinsent; 3^rd Eliza Whitefield. Evergreen, in pot – 1^st, Mrs Ven; 2^nd, G. Whitefield; 3^rd, Thornton Dawes: Hyacinths, three varieties (open only to gardeners) – 1^st Thomas North; 2^nd, Wm. Hatts; 3^rd, Wm. Marsh. Succulent Plants: Pair: 1^st, Thierry Pinsent; 2^nd, Eliza Whitefield. Hand bouquet (open only to gardeners and their wives) 1^st, Wm. Marsh; 2^nd, W.E. Groves, 3^rd, Thomas North. Collection of grasses gathered and dried by exhibitor; 1^st Mrs. Pinsent; 2^nd Mrs. Gardener; 3^rd Mr. George Gover: Prettiest arranged window box, 1^st Mr. Bridges, 2^nd; Thornton Dawes: Prettiest arranged case of ferns, 1^st, John Knight; 2^nd Mrs. Scriven; 3^rd, Mrs Naish. …. 

[see also Bristol Mercury: Friday 7^th March 1884]

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GRO0906 Bristol: William Henry John Pinsent: 1841 – 1923
GRO0901 Bristol: William Henry Thiery Pinsent: 1865 – 1915

Redland and Kingsdown Workmen’s Flower Show and Home Encouragement Society: The 12^th industrial exhibition and show of window-grown plants in connection with the above excellent society, was opened in the schoolroom of St. Saviour’s church yesterday. … (discussion of show and prize list) … Class 8: Myrtle in pot, window grown: 1^st, Mrs. Day; 2^nd Thierry Pinsent; 3^rd Mrs. Whitefield … Class 13: Collection of grasses, gathered and dried by exhibitor: 1^st Mrs. Pinsent; 2^nd Mrs. Gardiner 3^rd; George Gover. … … Class 21: Best made, prettiest and most novel window box, not less than two feet long, by amateurs: 1^st Charles Dowling; 2^nd, H. Pinsent; 3^rd, J. Simmons …

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GRO0901 Bristol: William Henry Thiery Pinsent: 1865 – 1915
GRO0906 Bristol: William Henry John Pinsent: 1841 – 1923 (?)
GROxxxx Bristol