Code |
Description |
Date |
Keywords |
39213/6 |
Misc. documents relating to Town and Mayor's
Dues, including see cat. |
|
government administration |
09354 |
Photograph, possibly of a model, of new dock at
Avonmouth, n.d. |
|
ports |
39290/FW/LN/22, 24 |
Notes and cuttings regarding New Cut |
|
|
40084/NC/30 |
Article on plans for Portbury Dock |
|
development locks |
00352(1-19) |
Wharfage dock
dues
|
|
ports commerce |
04282(1-3) |
Dock dues
|
|
ports |
04941 |
Dock dues
|
|
ports |
04282(3) |
Cranage dues
|
|
ports commerce |
17106 |
Plans
|
|
|
36292(1-4) |
Plans |
|
|
17121 |
Share certificate
|
|
|
28049(26)c |
Improvement
|
|
development |
39290/FW/PC/6(f) |
Postcard, Old Harbour, Bristol, n.d.
|
|
ports |
20534 |
Trinity
|
|
ship |
19590(3) |
Tyger |
|
ship |
19590(4) |
Severn Galley |
|
ship |
16073 |
Sally |
|
ship |
40272 |
Orion
|
|
ship |
29747(1)o |
Queen Mary |
|
ship |
40553/5 |
Photograph of PS Ravenswood,
n.d.
|
|
ship |
39290/FW/LN/32 |
Notes regarding Alderman Aldworth's Docks, n.d.
|
|
ports |
30299(S) |
Customs collectors
|
|
ports tax |
17562(1) |
Plan of slave ship, date?
|
|
slaving |
08382 |
Relief of Merchant Seamen
|
|
mariners aid |
6536(1-13) |
Trustees of Seaman's Hospital
|
|
mariners finance administration |
38254 |
Certificates of discharge |
|
mariners |
38770 |
Certificates of discharge |
|
mariners |
39407 |
Certificates of discharge |
|
mariners |
01346-7 |
Trinity House Corporation, ?
|
|
|
10750(b) |
Trinity House Corporation, ?
|
|
|
09040 |
See cat.
|
|
emigration |
38203 |
Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, Bristol Brigrade, ?date
|
|
naval |
30630(12) |
East India Company Fund
|
|
trade |
26772 |
Society of Merchant Venturers, deeds
|
|
trade |
24867(29, 38), ? |
Society of Merchant Venturers
|
|
trade |
16079 |
Four photographs of ships from Royal Ontario Museum, ?
|
|
illustrative material |
40095/0/13 |
Crew list of John King, n.d.?
|
|
mariners |
40095/0/19 |
Crew list of the Peri, n.d.
|
|
mariners |
40095/0/30-1 |
Crew lists of the Volunteer, ?
|
|
mariners |
38754 |
Papers of Grahame E. Farr
|
|
|
21129(53) |
Logbook
|
|
|
30182 |
Logbook
|
|
|
39290S/FW/LN/13,14 |
Notes and transcripts regarding shippping, n.d.
|
|
|
25064 |
Photographic albums of Museum and Art Gallery, ?
|
|
photographs |
39290/FW/LN/17 |
Notes regarding prehistoric ships
|
|
|
8023 |
Shipbuilding
|
|
|
14180(18-19) |
Steam vessels, ?
|
|
shipping |
28050 |
Bills of lading
|
|
customs cargo |
26226 |
Cargoes |
|
customs |
34413(1) |
Llandaff City |
|
ship |
34413(2) |
Somerset |
|
ship |
34413(3, 6, 11) |
Brooklyn City |
|
ship |
34413(4-5) |
Dominion |
|
ship |
34413(7-8) |
Dorser |
|
ship |
34413(9) |
Bristol City |
|
ship |
34413(10) |
Bristol |
|
ship |
38459/44(a)S |
Presentation plate of HMS Bristol
|
|
ship |
33722(19)S |
Chepstow Packet
|
|
ship |
13458(46) |
Commerce, Unicorn
|
|
ship |
21125(6) |
The United Brethren |
|
ship |
19595(g) |
Reservation for berth on the Nora Creina, steam
packet, ?
|
|
passengers |
10253(4) |
Dreadnought, privateer
|
|
ship |
39290/FW/LN/19 |
Notes regarding the Fanny, n.d.
|
|
ship |
09860(8) |
The George |
|
ship |
30100 |
Great BritainMDBU, steamship
|
|
|
16163(8-9) |
The Great Cha?,
|
|
ship |
39290S/FW/PC/7 |
Print of the launching of the Great Western, n.d.
|
|
ship |
16078(2) |
Great Western Steamship Company, ? |
|
|
32956 |
Great Western Steamship Company, ? |
|
|
19818(29) |
Hardy, gun-vessel
|
|
ship |
4487(9) |
The John and Mary
|
|
ship |
09458(16) |
John Trygett
|
|
ship |
09686(12) |
King David |
|
ship |
16080(13) |
London Packet |
|
ship |
AC/JS 102(29) |
Petition of the widows of Naval Officers, n.d.
|
|
navy |
05131 |
Printed book of reference, various dock reports |
|
ports administration |
05102 |
Printed book of reference, Bristol Channel Pilotage Commission |
|
pilots |
04581 |
Printed book of reference, Rules & Orders for Pilots |
|
|
09292(1-2) |
Printed book of reference, reports |
|
administration |
32229 (1-20) |
Admiralty court seal matrix, c.1461
|
1461 |
|
01255 |
Grant of the office of Water Bailiff to Richard Craford, 12
May 1472
|
1472 |
administration |
281 |
Copy of Bristol customs roll of 1496-9, printed in 1897
|
1496 - 1499 |
finance tax trade |
32835 AC/B63 |
Ledger. See Jean
Vanes (ed.), The Ledger of John Smythe, 1538-50 (Bristol Record Society,
XXVIII, 1974). of John Smyth, merchant, including trade to Newfoundland, the
continent, 1534-50
|
1534 - 1550 |
finance |
36074(58) |
Petition of M. Giott, master of the Magdalen of Pennarth,
Brittany, to the Society of Merchants, regarding partial loss of cargo from
ship being piloted in Kingsroad, seventeenth century
|
1600 - 1699 |
pilots |
SMV |
Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol: records, 17th-20th cent. |
1600 - 1999 |
|
05192 |
Plan of the Bristol Channell, 1605
|
1605 |
illustrative material |
36074(109) |
Letter of Batholomew Giffard to Sir Hugh Smyth,
including reference to discontent of mariners, c.1626 |
1626 |
|
36074(119) |
Letter to Sir Hugh Smyth, noting unrest of mariners at
Portsmouth, 18 August 1628
|
1628 |
|
AC/C61 |
Letters of John Lord Poulett to Thomas Smyth, includes
references to navy at Plymouth and the Admiral, 1635
|
1635 |
correspondence |
36074(139a) |
Letter of John Pyne, including news of Ship Money, 1640
|
1640 |
|
36074(141) |
Letter with reference to a proposed Act of Parliament for
bridge to `stop the tide', 1640
|
1640 |
|
AC/WO 9(49) |
Petition of Thomas Berry to the Commissioners of the Sea
Wall regarding repsonsibility for repairing 7 1/2 perches of the wall, n.d.
[?late seventeenth century]
|
1670 - 1700 |
|
35447 |
Title to lands in Bedminster from 1679, Bristol
Dock Company |
1679 |
assets |
12964 |
Eagle of
Bristol; Townsend, 1679-1742; Grampus |
1679 - 1742 |
ship |
AC/WO 9(8) |
Invoice for goods loaded onto the Concord of Bristol
for Virginia, and for provisions sent to Virginia for the use of the George,
1682
|
1682 |
cargo |
AC/WO 9(9-13, 21) |
Financial papers regarding ownership of George of
Bristol, 1682
|
1682 |
ship |
01146 |
Royal Deed of appointment of Sir Thomas Haines as Water
Bailiff, 23 October, 26 Charles II (?1686)
|
1686 |
office administration |
29587(1) |
Timber supplied to sailing vessels, 1691-2
|
1691 - 1692 |
|
AC/WO 9(26) |
Bill of exchange for £6 of the George of Bristol, 12
December 1693
|
1693 |
ship |
32173 |
Records of Port of Bristol Authority, 1695-1971 |
1695 - 1971 |
administration |
32835 AC/B64 |
Account book of Anthony Varder, merchant, including trade to
Newfoundland, 1697--1713
|
1697 - 1713 |
finance |
08840(8) a-c |
Receipts of Samuel Hartnell regarding the Sarah, 1700-1
|
1700 - 1701 |
finance ship |
34907 |
Letter referring to naval shipbuilding, voyages to
Waterford, 25 June 17[torn]
|
1700 - 1799 |
correspondence |
21782BL |
Letters of marque, eighteenth century
|
1700 - 1799 |
|
AC/JS 53(1-60) |
Papers regarding the `Bristol Case', early
eighteenth century, in which Bristol merchants objected to the right of the
Mayor to levy 40 shillings for each vessel of over 60 tons for the use of the
quay.
|
1700 - 1740 |
lawsuit ports |
AC/JS 53(7-18) |
Rex & Hopkins v. Thomas |
1700 - 1740 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
AC/JS 53(19-60) |
Lyde v. Hart |
1700 - 1740 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
04419 |
Volume of Customs House Officers' affadavits, 1702-35
|
1702 - 1735 |
commerce tax |
29587(2) |
Cargo of groceries to Kingston, 1707
|
1707 |
|
01112 (1-36) |
Warrants, informations, affadavits and vouchers regarding
goods of the Delaval which ran aground in river, 1708-30
|
1708 - 1730 |
cargo |
00428(1-2) |
Articles for building new custom house, 1710
|
1710 |
development ports tax |
08840(8)d |
Probate will of Samuel Hartness with mention of
shipping, 1715
|
1715 |
|
11109(8)S |
List of dues payable to quaymen, 1716
|
1716 |
labour docks ports |
08226 |
Volume entitled `shipping notes, Bristol, 1719-21'
comprising bills of lading for ships from Ireland, Spain, Holland, France, West
Indies, America, Africa, 1719-21
|
1719 - 1721 |
cargo |
2(1-2 & 16) |
?, 1720-18?2 |
1720 - 1830 |
|
AC/MU 3(1)(9) |
Misc. naval
documents, 1720, 1781
|
1720 - 1781 |
miscellaneous |
AC/MU 3(1) |
HMS Dartmouth, 1720
|
1720 |
ship |
08840(18)a-b |
Papers regarding Sea Mills Dock, 1726, n.d. (eighteenth
century)
|
1726 |
shipping |
AC/WO 9(63) |
Insurance policy for the Charming Molly, master John
Barker, 5 July 1731
|
1731 |
ship |
AC/JS 53(1) |
Note on the distraint of an anchor from the Partridge,
1731 |
1731 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
09701(25) |
Letter of R. Holland to Thomas Haynes including mention of
excise scheme on tobacco, 22 March 1732
|
1732 |
commerce |
11109(11)S |
Queen Mary |
1733 |
ship |
AC/WO 9(102) |
Insurance policy for the ship William and Mary, 21
September 1733
|
1733 |
|
AC/WO 9(103) |
Bill of lading for goods shipped on the William and Mary by
Edward Archer and Joshua Groves for Speights Town, Barbadoes, 28 September 1733
|
1733 |
cargo |
08840(18)C |
Case and opinion regarding shares in the Duke of
Cumberland, 30 November 1735
|
1735 |
ship |
AC/JS 53(2) |
Draft declaration on the theft of an anchor at
Taunton, 1736 |
1736 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
AC/JS 53(3)a-b |
Summons from the Mayor of Bristol against the
owners of the New Kent and the Stockton for bringing their ships
into the quay without a license, 1736 |
1736 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
AC/JS 53(4)a-k |
Court papers regarding the regarding the theft
of an anchor and the Boston Merchant, owned by Robert Smith and others,
1736 |
1736 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
AC/JS 53(6) |
Letter of Edmund Sanders to Jarrit Smith
concerning proceedings against the owners of the Aurora and the Rainbow,
20 October 1737 |
1737 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
P/XCH/D23 |
Postboy |
1738 |
ship |
6690(2) |
Forfeited goods, 1738
|
1738 |
customs |
AC/VS 53(8-10) |
?, 1738
|
1738 |
|
AC/VS 104 (1) |
?, 1738
|
1738 |
|
11109(12)S |
Hanover, 1739
|
1739 |
ship |
93(2)d |
Probate of will of Thomas Smith belonging to HM the
Mariner, 21 March 1740
|
1740 |
mariners |
08847(1) |
Assignment of a messuage or inn near Sea Mills Dock,
Westbury, 26 March 1746
|
1746 |
development |
AC/MU 2(1) |
The Hamburgh Merchant, 1747
|
1747 |
ship |
06615 |
Photograph of insurance policy of the Culloden, 20 June
1748, which was on a slaving voyage from Bristol to America via Africa, 31 May 1925
|
1748 - 1925 |
slavery |
29226(3) |
Castaway from the Hecktor, 1748
|
1748 |
mariners passengers |
AC/MU 3(2) |
Nancy,
1748 |
1748 |
ship |
1(6) |
Letter of John Duntze, Exeter, to Samuel
Munckley regarding shipping news, 1750-1 |
1750 - 1751 |
|
1(5) |
Letter of Herman Katenkamp, Exeter merchant, to Samuel
Munckley regarding Hamburg trade, and travel by sea, 1751
|
1751 |
|
04282(3), |
General Committee Books including that of the regulation
of Watermen, 1757-1835
|
1757 - 1835 |
administration |
39654 (1)S |
Ruby, 1758-72
|
1758 - 1772 |
ship |
AC/JS 92 |
Papers regarding the Naval Bill, 1758
|
1758 |
navy |
39654(2) |
Swift, 1759-60
|
1759 - 1760 |
ship |
248(1) |
Articles of agreement regarding privateers'
prize ship and goods of the Hay, 1759
|
1759 |
naval |
AC/JS 102(10) |
George Bonnell's plan for preventing smuggling,
12 March 1759 |
1759 |
|
38083(1)S |
Lloyd family correspondence with Charleston, South Carolina,
1760-6
|
1760 - 1766 |
|
AC/MU 1(11-13) |
Papers concerning the Hope, 1760-73, including cargoe
of negro slaves, mariners' wages, also cargo of sugar onboard the Byron,
1773
|
1760 - 1773 |
|
AC/MU 2(3) |
Gloucestershire, 1760
|
1760 |
ship |
2(4) |
Clifton,
1760-2 |
1760 - 1762 |
ship |
04399 |
Richard Neale's Day Book, comprising an entry book of ships,
with details of ships and their masters, cargoes and trade port of origin, 1761-4
|
1761 - 1764 |
commerce shipping trade |
AC/MU 1(8-9) |
Letter of John Smith, commander of the Clifton, from
Barbadoes to Ilfracombe, to Samuel Munckley & Co., owners, regarding
voyage, and wages book, 1762, also enclosing account of sales of goods,
invoices, list of debts, current ac |
1761 - 1762 |
merchants cargo finance |
10253(5-6) |
Insurance of goods on the Edwin, 1763
|
1763 |
ship cargo |
03769 |
'Proposals for laying the ships at the quay at
Bristol constantly afloat', by John Smeaton, 1765 |
1765 |
ports shipping |
AC/MU 2(5) |
Albany, 1765
|
1765 |
ship |
11168(1-76) |
Documents relating to proposals for improving the harbour of
Bristol, 1766-1828 see cat.
|
1766 - 1828 |
ports development |
39654 (2)S |
Nevis Planter,
1770-5, Sally, 1767-72 |
1767 - 1775 |
ship |
AC/MU 1(40) & 2(6) |
Greyhound, 1767-73
|
1767 - 1773 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(7) |
Patient Mary, 1767-8
|
1767 - 1768 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(8) |
Colston, 1767
|
1767 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(9) |
The Prudent Sally, 1767
|
1767 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(10) |
The Hampton, 1767
|
1767 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(12) |
Eleanor, 1767-8
|
1767 - 1768 |
ship |
28048, J1/1 |
`Minutes of a journey to Weymouth, voyage to Cherbourg' by
J.S.H., with printed plan of Cherbourg and its fortifications, 1768, includes
mention of bathing machines at Weymouth & Melcombe Regis, voyage to France
|
1768 |
travel illustrations |
AC/MU 2(11) |
Celia, 1768
|
1768 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(13) |
Brittannia, merchant ship, 1768
|
1768 |
|
AC/MU 2(14) |
Fair Trader, 1768
|
1768 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(15) |
Elizabeth and Mary, 1768
|
1768 |
ship |
AC/WO 9(74a-f) |
Includes undertakings by shipowners to pay John Hugh Smyth
extra premium of insurance for the detention of the Hope and the Sally,
1768
|
1768 |
|
39654(3) |
Triton, 1770-1803 |
1770 - 1803 |
ship |
06595(1-2) |
Photograph of bill of lading of the Russia Merchant of
Liverpool in 1770; bill of lading of the Rose Mary of Jamaica, 1770
|
1770 |
commerce shipping cargo |
38083(3-4)S |
Correspondence of Nicholas Pocock with Richard Champion,
1770-75
|
1770 - 1775 |
|
AC/WO 16 |
Letters with invoices and bills of ladings for Jamaican
sugar, late eighteenth century
|
1770 - 1800 |
cargo finance |
38032 |
Logbook of Nicholas Pocock, Captain of the Lloyd, of four voyages between Bristol
and Dominica via Madeira, the Canaries and the West Indies, 7 January 1771-2,
highly illustrated throughout with views of the Lloyd, a decorated chart o |
1771 - 1772 |
Travel Pictures |
30189(2) |
Company of Merchants trading with Africa, 1772
|
1772 |
trade |
30189(2)S |
West Indies, merchant's correspondence, 1772-1800
|
1772 - 1800 |
|
AC/MU 3(7) |
Blaze Castle, merchant ship, 1772-3
|
1772 - 1773 |
|
AC/MU 1(15 & 17) |
Bills of lading, 1773
|
1773 |
cargo |
1(22) |
Letters regarding shipping of Irish butter,
oats, etc to England, 1773 |
1773 |
|
1(24) |
Letters regarding shipping sugar, ginger, etc.,
from Barbadoes to England, 1773 |
1773 |
|
1(26) |
Letters regarding shipping of ginger, London,
1773 |
1773 |
|
AC/MU 1(31) |
Letter regarding import of Russian iron, 1773
|
1773 |
|
40128/2 |
Correspondence St Lucia, 1774
|
1774 |
|
32835 |
Records of the Smythe family of Ashton Court, including MU,
records of Samuel Munkley, shipowner and merchant, of Bristol, late eighteenth
to early nineteenth centuries [also see 37671]
|
1775 - 1825 |
|
40279/1 |
Mervin
|
1776 |
ship |
33793/4 |
Chocolate smuggling, 1776
|
1776 |
customs evasion |
12162 |
Shipping account book of the Snow Fanny, including to the Baltic and Barbadoes, April 1777 -
November 1791
|
1777 - 1791 |
finance trade |
AC/MU 2(17) |
Fanny, 1777-80, Haven of Cronstadt, Petersburg, Russia, 1777
|
1777 - 1778 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(18) |
Druid, 1779
|
1779 |
ship |
248(2) |
Articles of agreement regarding prize ship the
Gascoyne, 1781
|
1781 |
naval |
AC/MU 3(9) |
Exeter, 1781
|
1781 |
ship |
11168/2(a) |
Bristol channel disbursements regarding Hungroad, 1782-95
|
1782 - 1795 |
anchorage |
AC/MU 2(19) |
The Hellen Packet of Cork, 1784
|
1784 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(21) |
The Ann, merchant ship, 1785
|
1785 |
|
AC/MU 2(22) |
Fanny of Bristol, 1786
|
1786 |
ship |
11168/3(b), 12 (d) |
Imports to Bristol from the West Indies, 1787-8, 1806-7
|
1787 - 1807 |
international commerce |
AC/MU 3(12) |
Nelly, 1787
|
1787 |
ship |
04059(1-2) |
Two volumes of abstracts of the foreigners town dues,
1789-1807, 1807-17
|
1789 - 1817 |
customs |
04060 |
Volume of abstracts of coasters' town duties, 1789-1807
|
1789 - 1807 |
customs |
39654 (4)S |
Druid, 1790-1803
|
1790 - 1803 |
ship |
1016(1-98) |
Shipping receipts of cargoes, Bristol, 1790
|
1790 |
customs |
04062(1-3) |
Mayor's Dues (on ships), 1791-1835
|
1791 - 1835 |
tax administration customs |
09477 |
Release regarding the merchant seamen's almhouse, 16 August 1791
|
1791 |
mariners |
11168/5(a) |
Sugar vessel from Jamaica upsetting near mud
docks, 1792
|
1792 |
commerce ports |
01036(1-7) |
Title deeds and reconveyance for a Seamen's Hospital, 1
December 1792
|
1792 |
mariners |
AC/PL 63-4 |
Plans, 1792, 1803
|
1792 - 1803 |
|
33795(1-2) |
Harbour Improvement, 1793
|
1793 |
ports development |
01155 |
Sale of seized goods, 1794
|
1794 |
customs |
39290S/FW/LN/12 |
Transcript of register of shipping, 1795
|
1795 |
ships |
05077(1-4) |
Volume entitled the `register of ships navigating within the
city of Bristol', 1795-1802
|
1795 - 1802 |
|
11168/28 |
Ships from the West Indies to London, 1798-9
|
1798 - 1799 |
shipping |
12571(1) |
Victualling accounts, 1798-1803
|
1798 - 1803 |
naval |
12151/8,18-19S |
Wages & deed of the Ann, 1799-1809
|
1799 - 1809 |
|
09458(28) |
Printed map of the harbour of Bristol, n.d.
(?nineteenth century) |
1800 - 1900 |
ports |
28048, P4 |
Printed letter urging reduction of town dues
and improvement of the docks, Bristol, 1800 |
1800 |
ports development |
40232 |
Records of Turner Edwards & Co., ship owners and
brokers, nineteenth century, 20c
|
1800 - 1999 |
shipping |
32229(16) |
Town Clerk's seal matrix with detail of ship & water
gate, ninetenth century, 20c
|
1800 - 1899 |
|
43634 |
Jefferies (Avonmouth) Ltd., ship repairers: records 1800-2000.
|
1800 - 2000 |
shiprepairers companies |
11168/7(a) |
Cargo of the Hero, 1801
|
1801 |
commerce |
12151/17S |
Sale of one half of the Trelawney, 1801 |
1801 |
|
17105 |
Book of reference, listing owners and occupiers affected by
proposed improvement of the navigation of the river Avon and river Frome by a
new cut, 30 September 1802
|
1802 |
development |
11371 |
Plan of the design for improving the harbour of
Bristol, by William Jessop, civil engineer, W. White, surveyor, 1803; report of
Mr John Wolfe Barry to the Docks Committee of the Corporation, 1896 |
1803 - 1896 |
ports engineering surveying |
04063(1-3) |
Quay Wardens' receipts, 1803-46
|
1803 - 1846 |
ports docks finance |
32173(35)di,iiS |
Agreement regarding collection of rates on
tonnage and duties on goods, 1804 |
1804 |
|
11168/12d |
Imports from Russia and Portugal to Bristol, 1806-7
|
1806 - 1807 |
international commerce ports |
12571(8) |
Copy of letter describing bombardment of Copenhagen,
1807, see cat.
|
1807 |
naval |
08969 |
Annual accounts of the Bristol Dock Company, 1808-48
|
1808 - 1848 |
administration finances |
12571(2) |
Ships bound for Brazil, 1808
|
1808 |
naval |
12571(3) |
Victualling account, 1808
|
1808 |
naval |
04061 |
Volume of imports abstracted from town dues, 1808-9
|
1808 - 1809 |
customs |
12151/8S |
Wage accounts of sundry ships, including the Martha,
1808-9 |
1808 - 1809 |
mariners |
08923(5) |
Ms containing 86 entries of Council ordinances
including Bristol Dock Company Balance Sheet, c.1809 |
1809 |
administration |
12152/3 |
Papers belonging to the Society of Merchant Venturers,
including correspondence and papers regarding Trinity House lighthouses: Flat
Holme & Mumbles, 1809-18
|
1809 - 1818 |
|
12571(5,6,9) |
Valiant, 1809
|
1809 |
naval |
34906(11)b |
Receipt from Thomas Streeter, master of the Hope bound for
Quebec, towards the support of the lighthouse on the Smalls, St George's
Channel, off coast of Pembroke, 1810
|
1810 |
Trinity House |
207(12) |
Entry of protest of the Johnes of Clovelly, Devon, schooner,
5 December 1810
|
1810 |
|
08970 |
Cash book of the Improvement of the Port of Bristol Sinking
Fund, 1811-49
|
1811 - 1849 |
finance |
08971 |
Ledger of the Improvement of the Port of Bristol Sinking
Fund, 1811-49
|
1811 - 1849 |
finance |
08972 |
Port of Bristol Lenders' letters and vouchers, 1811-49
|
1811 - 1849 |
funds |
12152/1-20 |
Papers relating to various schemes and to Bills
before Parliament, belonging to the Society of Merchant Venturers, 1811-67
|
1811 - 1867 |
trade |
28147(1) |
Lease from, 1811
|
1811 |
trade |
12142/3 |
Lighthouse, Flat Holmes, 1811-18
|
1811 - 1818 |
|
34906 (11)c |
Letter of Thomas S. Benson to Captain Streeter directing him
to board the John for Quebec and there to take charge of the Mary bound
for London, 1811
|
1811 |
correspondence |
3862(7)a |
Release in fee of the Directors of the Bristol Dock Company
to Samuel Hewlett of two pieces of land, Redcliffe, 29 January 1812
|
1812 |
|
37454/14(b) |
Mayor's committee regarding expiry of East India Company
charter, 1812-17
|
1812 - 1817 |
trade |
12152/2 |
Papers belonging to the Society of Merchant Venturers,
including correspondence and a petition against the East India Company charter,
1812
|
1812 |
trade |
17557(2) |
Ships sailing from Bristol, 1812-36
|
1812 - 1836 |
|
36075 |
records of Albion dockyard, 1814-1918 |
1814 - 1918 |
Ports |
04142 |
Decayed pilots fund receipt book & the Surplus Pilotage
Fund Account, 1817-35
|
1817 - 1835 |
|
5918(40)S |
See sched. ?, master mariner about to go on voyage to
African coast, c.1817
|
1817 |
|
28038, P105 |
Case and opinion regarding claim of Capt. Webley
Parry to payments from ships anchoring off Pwllcorn, and from farmers for loads
of sea sand delivered to them on Pwllcarn beach, ?Wales, April 1819 |
1819 |
duties |
11181(5) |
Sale of one quarter share in the Eliza of Bristol,
1819
|
1819 |
ship |
12147(49) |
Receipts for shares, etc of Bristol Docks, 1824-34
|
1824 - 1834 |
finances |
32484 |
Bristol Customs House registers, 1824-99
|
1824 - 1899 |
finance tax |
32173/40-6S |
Trade with Prince Edward Island, 1826-8
|
1826 - 1828 |
|
32173/(40-50)S |
Sale of the Mary, 1826-9
|
1826 - 1829 |
ship |
12151/20S |
Bill of sale, the Maria, 1826 |
1826 |
|
05088 |
Coasting cargo book of Samuel Beckerton, concerning goods
between Bristol and Newport, 1826-7
|
1826 - 1827 |
customs trade |
04064 |
Water Bailiff receipts, 1828-47
|
1828 - 1847 |
finance |
32173(45)S |
Cambridge, 1828
|
1828 |
ship |
12152/5 |
Correspondence of the Society of Merchant Venturers
regarding the provision of a lifeboat, 1830
|
1830 |
|
4547(1-3) |
Bills of sale of the Dispatch, 1830-2
|
1830 - 1832 |
ship |
07786-9 |
Four parcels of plans probably belonging to the Sanitary
Committee, 1832-1907
|
1832 - 1907 |
health administration |
04068 |
Quay Wardens' receipts, 1833-46
|
1833 - 1846 |
finance docks |
7959 |
Bill of sale of six shares in the St David of Bristol, steam
packet, between James Allen Jones, Bristol gent., executor of the will of William
Jones the younger of Bristol, merchant, and Robert Henry Webb, Bristol
merchant, 16 July 1833 |
1833 |
trade shipping |
35447 BL |
Ship's securities deposited in bank, 1840; registration of
the Margaret, c.1840
|
1835 - 1845 |
finance administration records |
39458(1-13)S |
Deeds and other papers of the Bristol General Steam
Navigation Company, 1836-78
|
1836 - 1878 |
shipping |
04069(1-6) |
Cash Accounts and Rates of the Crane Master for
goods landed and shipped by crane at the Quays of the Port of Bristol, 1837-56
|
1837 - 1856 |
commerce |
04065 |
Mayor's Dues (on ships), 1837-47
|
1837 - 1847 |
tax administration customs finance |
39213/7 |
London Dock Company, 1839-41
|
1839 - 1841 |
commerce ports |
04988 |
Minutes of the Port Accommodation Committee, 1840-45
|
1840 - 1845 |
administration housing |
04066 |
Mayor's Dues (on ships), 1840-7
|
1840 - 1847 |
tax administration customs finance |
39213/8 |
Kingston-upon-Hull dock company, rates, 1842
|
1842 |
commerce |
04067 |
Quay Wardens' fees, 1842-6
|
1842 - 1846 |
finance docks |
12291/1S |
Lease, 1843
|
1843 |
trade |
12168(18) |
Minutes of the Bristol Channel Mission, 1843-4
|
1843 - 1844 |
administration |
35036 |
Records of Poole Brothers Galbraith and Company, Ltd, sand,
gravel and coal merchants, 1845-1966, including: 104-18, papers and plans
regarding Poole's Wharf, including, 108, papers regarding Royal visit and
access to SS Camerton, 19 |
1845 - 1966 |
commerce development shipping |
39055 |
Two letters concerning the maiden voyage of the
SS Great Britain to New York, at Weymouth and Plymouth, 1845
|
1845 |
passengers |
12168(19-20) |
Society of Merchants letter books, 1845-51, 1863-4
|
1845 - 1864 |
trade |
39213/10 |
Birkinhead Docks, extension to, 1846
|
1846 |
development |
39213/9 |
Rates for Cardiff (Bute) docks, 1846
|
1846 |
commerce |
01129(1-3) |
Haven Masters' reports of the departures and
arrivals at the Port of Bristol, 1847
|
1847 |
shipping commerce |
38064 |
Merchant seaman's records of William Hynder, 1847-61
|
1847 - 1861 |
mariners |
13847(64-5) |
Bristol Quadrilles composed in commemoration of Free Port
Day and print of procession in honour of Free Port Day, 1848
|
1848 |
dance south-west |
28049(26)d |
Free Port Day, 1848
|
1848 |
|
01032(1-7) |
Deed of transfer of the Bristol Docks to the Corporation, 28
August 1848
|
1848 |
administration |
7946 |
Annual accounts of the Bristol Dock Company, 1849-74
|
1849 - 1874 |
finance |
40095 |
Records of C.J. King and Sons (Holdings), Ltd,
1850s-, see below for details |
1850 - 1860 |
|
12152/12 |
Papers belonging to the Society of Merchant Venturers,
including bill for Merchant Seamen's Fund, 1850-3
|
1850 - 1853 |
mariners |
40009 |
Lighthouse at mouth of Avon, c.1850
|
1850 |
Trinity House |
40084/PC/6 |
Illustration of wreck of the Gipsy, 185??78
|
1850 - 1878 |
ship |
32173(65)S |
Two hopper or mud boats, one in river Usk, one building on
stocks, 1850
|
1850 |
|
04348 |
Commissioners' Book of the Bristol Channel Pilotage
Commission, 1854
|
1854 |
|
08973 |
Ledger of the Bristol Dock Borough Rate, 1855-94
|
1855 - 1894 |
|
4966(28)S |
Articles of partnership, C.H. & H. Williams, shipowners
and merchants, 1857
|
1857 |
shipping |
01021(1-3) |
Letters and epitome of the title of the Corporation to
wrecks within the city & county & jurisdiction of Bristol, 1857-60
|
1857 - 1860 |
correspondence |
12152/15 |
Papers of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including a
proposal to make a harbour of refuge at Lundy Island, 1858
|
1858 |
trade developments |
13423(8) |
Danish ships at Bristol, 1859
|
1859 |
shipping |
30634 (3), (5)S |
Gwyer family merchants at St Petersburg, 1860, 1881
|
1860 - 1881 |
|
4005 |
Poems written onboard the White Eagle, 1861
|
1861 |
poetry |
40015/1 |
Deed, 1861
|
1861 |
trade |
39951/2 |
Journal of a visit to Egypt, 1862
|
1862 |
travel |
07783(1-60) |
Misc. plans and docks, 1864-1924. Note, some in this collection were destroyed in 1964.
|
1864 - 1924 |
miscellaneous |
12275/3S |
Argentina,
1867
|
1867 |
ship |
40301 |
Diary of unknown writer, 1878, includes account of the wreck
of the Waterford Steam Navigation Company's vessel the Gipsy and its subsequent
destruction, 13-15 May and notice of the Royal Western Yacht Club Regatta
(Plymouth), 25 July
|
1868 |
travel journal |
38087 |
Records of the National Nautical School,
1869-1982, including, NS/A4, NS/X4/15, the Polly;
NS/X2/2&3 & NS/X4/5, newspaper cuttings, report and photograph
concerning the training ship Cornwall,
1935, 1938, 1946; NS/A6-7, entr |
1869 - 1982 |
education training |
40183/P/1 |
Diary of a voyage of the True
Briton, 1870
|
1870 |
travel literature |
33416(1-32) |
37 volumes of Reports including those of the
Port Medical Officer of Health, 1875-1973 |
1875 - 1973 |
administration medicine |
39449/3, 5-7S |
Letters with news of certificates of discharge, 1876-86
|
1876 - 1886 |
mariners |
17196 |
Crew list of the Corsair, 1876
|
1876 |
mariners |
29542(4) |
Solicitor's register of notes and entries of ship's
protests, 1879-1928
|
1879 - 1923 |
mariners |
08533 |
Council minutes regarding the acquisition of
docks, 1880-4 |
1880 - 1884 |
administration ports |
40095/0/11 |
Gem, crew list, 1880s
|
1880 - 1889 |
mariners |
39449/5S |
Lord Duncan, 1881
|
1881 |
ship |
07782(1-37) |
Dock plans, Bristol, 1882-1907
|
1882 - 1907 |
ports development |
12171/38S |
Letter with description of journey to Ontario, 1882
|
1882 |
voyage |
40556 |
Newspaper reports of Bristol Sailors' Home, 1883
|
1883 |
mariners aid |
39449/6S, 3S |
Letter from Govt Shipping Office regarding seaman, Australia, Brisbane, 1884 & Sydney, 1876
|
1884 - 1876 |
government administration |
26167(2) |
Bristol dock scheme drawings, 1885-92
|
1885 - 1892 |
ports development |
43659 |
Documents relating to the shipping by L. Mendl & Co. of a cargo of maize and barley, in the Arbutus, from Ibrail to London, 1885.
|
1885 |
imports shipping trade Romania |
37980 |
Records of P. & A. Campbell Ltd, steamship
company, 1888-1967 [also see 40140] |
1888 - 1967 |
Shipping |
40373 |
Autobiography of A.J. Brown, customs officer, 1889-1925
|
1889 - 1925 |
trade commerce tax |
40095/T/8 |
Logbook of the Francis, 1889 |
1889 |
|
35033(1) |
Avonmouth plans, from 1890 |
1890 |
ports docks locks development |
35033(3) |
Insurance plan of Sharpness New Docks, 1891 |
1891 |
ports shipping |
40145/Ph/8 |
Royal Marines Band, Portsmouth, 1893-4
|
1893 - 1894 |
naval musicians |
40140S |
Records of Campbell P & A Ltd, 1893-1971
|
1893 - 1971 |
|
40479 |
Naval records of Edward Crissup, 1894-1928
|
1894 - 1928 |
mariners navy |
40163/F/7 |
Goods shipped to Ilfracombe, 1894
|
1894 |
trade |
04156 |
Haven Masters' Account, 1895-1914 |
1895 - 1914 |
ports shipping docks |
09335(2)a.1-2,(3)a-b |
Papers regarding the report of the Docks Engineer on Frome
Floods Prevention, 1895-7
|
1895 - 1897 |
|
08996-9000 |
Minute book, ledger and Treasurers' Book and
accounts of the Port Sanitary Authority, 1896-1926 |
1896 - 1926 |
administration funds finances |
PBA |
Port of Bristol Authority: volumes relating to docks 1896-1938.
|
1896 - 1938 |
ports docks harbour |
04884 |
Health Committee records, including
Port-Sanitary Sub-Committee Minutes, 1898-1921 |
1898 - 1921 |
administration |
36075(33) |
Chatham wharf, 1898
|
1898 |
ports harbours |
12774(2) |
Revised report of a speech at a meeting of the Town Council
made by Alderman Proctor Baker on the Extended Dock Accomodation at the port of
Bristol, 14 June 1898
|
1898 |
development |
32173(77)S |
Mountjoy, 1898
|
1898 |
ship |
40140/5(a)S |
Bill of sale of the Bonnie Doon, 1899
|
1899 |
ship |
Acc 41332 |
Bristol Sailors Home: minutes and financial records. |
1900 - 1999 |
welfare mariners |
43014 |
Port of Bristol Authority: records formerly at Underfall Yard, 20th century |
1900 - 1999 |
|
40095/0/12 |
Iris, crew list, 1903
|
1903 |
mariners |
19588 |
Official handbook The Port of Bristol Authority, 1904 |
1904 |
shipping government |
05150 |
Papers regarding legal proceedings between the owners of the
SS Princess Irene, steamship and Frome, steam hopper, 1904-5
|
1904 - 1905 |
ship |
2998 |
Legal proceedings of the owners of the Vassilakis versus
the owners of the Frome, steam hopper, 1904-5
|
1904 - 1905 |
ship |
40095/0/14 |
Crew lists of the King, 1905-35
|
1905 - 1935 |
mariners |
40095/0/27 |
Crew lists of the Sea Queen, 1905-11
|
1905 - 1911 |
mariners |
40095/0/2-3 |
Avonmouth crew lists, 1906-38
|
1906 - 1938 |
mariners |
40256 |
Piece of ribbon broken by yacht of Edward VII at
opening ceremony of Royal Edward dock, 1908, with covering letter |
1908 |
ports shipping royalty |
40129/1a-b |
Register of marine stores, 1908-74 |
1908 - 1974 |
|
04388 |
Papers regarding the visit of King Edward ?? and
Queen Alexandra to the Royal Edward Dock, 1908
|
1908 |
state visit |
07648 |
Official programme of the opening of Royal
Edward Dock, 9 July 1908 |
1908 |
Avonmouth locks |
11170/1-2, 6 |
Avonmouth docks, cutting first sod, 1902;
opening Royal Edward Dock, 1908; opening of extension, 1928 see cat. |
1908 - 1928 |
development ports locks |
39683(1) |
Royal Edward Dock, Avonmouth, opening 1908 |
1908 |
ports |
07756(1-2) |
Minute book of docks undertaking special committee, 15
December 1908 - 8 December 1910
|
1908 - 1910 |
ports |
08977 |
Volume of pilot accounts, 1908-23
|
1908 - 1923 |
finance |
42696 |
P & A Campbell Ltd, steamship owners, Bristol: copy accounts and papers |
1908 - 1993 |
Companies transport |
42696 |
Bristol shipping registers : registration papers
|
1908 - 1993 |
|
40145/x/3, ? |
Society of Merchant Venturers, 1909
|
1909 |
trade |
39290/FW/LN/16 |
Notes regarding industrial relations, 1911 |
1911 |
labour |
40068/1-3S |
Certificates of discharge |
1911 - 1940 |
mariners |
08340 |
Dock sanctions of the Board of Trade & Ministry of
Transport, 6 January 1912 - 12 January 1927
|
1912 - 1927 |
government ports administration |
40514/1-2 |
Papers of T.J. Gyles, ship's engineer, 1912-35
|
1912 - 1935 |
mariners |
40163/F/14 |
Cardiff & Bristol Channel Steamship Company, 1912
|
1912 |
|
40474/8 |
Denbigh Castle rounding Cape Horn, Tierra Del Fuego, 1912
|
1912 |
|
43659 |
Port of Bristol Authority: American cattle ledger and Bathurst Basin licenses book 1912-1929.
|
1912 - 1929 |
Bristol port harbour livestock |
39290/FW/LN/15 |
Plan of city docks, c.1913
|
1913 |
|
40156 |
Article regarding privateers, 1913-14
|
1913 - 1914 |
naval |
37885/5-8 |
Records of the Port of Bristol Employer's
Association, 1914-67 |
1914 - 1967 |
labour |
39900 |
Ms volume relating to records of prize cargoes
at the port of Bristol, 1915-17 |
1915 - 1917 |
shipping |
37885/1 |
Report on Ports and Harbours of United Kingdom, 1915
|
1915 |
administration |
37980/X3S |
Photo of the Cambria, run aground near Ilfracombe,
Devon, c.1920
|
1915 - 1925 |
ship |
40194 |
Dock employees including registers, 1916-89
|
1916 - 1989 |
labour records |
40095/0/15 |
Crew list of the Lady Morgan, 1916
|
1916 |
mariners |
08978 |
Pilotage Fund Accounts, 1917-24
|
1917 - 1924 |
pilots finances |
40336/1,6 |
Naval operations, Belgium, 1918
|
1918 |
world war one europe |
40336/1 |
Glenart Castle, hospital ship, torpedoed, 1918
|
1918 |
|
37885/6, 8 |
Bristol Port Harbour Committee, 1919, 1936-7
|
1919 - 1937 |
|
40491 |
Naval records of Arthur James Denman, 1920-49
|
1920 - 1949 |
mariners navy |
37885/2 |
Report and minutes of Transport Workers' Court of
Enquiry, 1920 |
1920 |
|
04931(1-9) |
Papers of the Joint Sub-Committee of Estates
& General Purposes Docks Committee to consider the appointment of a Haven
Master, 1922; papers regarding the Estates & Docks Committee, 1922 |
1922 |
government ports administration |
40095/0/6 |
Brunel, crew list, 1922
|
1922 |
mariners |
40095/Pr/26-44, T/27, & X/7 |
Bristol Shipping Staffs Asssociation, 1922-68
|
1922 - 1968 |
|
40336/6 |
Ettrick, overturned in Avon, 1924
|
1924 |
ship |
40136/7 |
Actions, 1925-74
|
1925 - 1974 |
Admiralty Court |
40336/7 |
Menu of the Aquitania, Atlantic liner, 1925
|
1925 |
food |
09448-50 |
Papers regarding the foreshore and riverbed at Portishead,
1926-8
|
1926 - 1928 |
marine geography |
09398 |
Includes minutes of the Port Sanitary
Sub-Committee, 1927-9 |
1927 - 1929 |
administration |
28797 |
Medical officer of Health's reports, urban and
port, 1927-30
|
1927 - 1930 |
administration medicine |
40095/0/5 |
Bristol Scout, crew list, 1927
|
1927 |
mariners |
09703(1-2) |
Two photographs of first and last pages of address of
welcome to HRH the Prince of Wales at his visit on the occasion of the opening
of the Dock Extension, Avonmouth, 23 May 1928
|
1928 |
opening ceremony royalty |
40095/Pr/24 |
Pilotage byelaws, 1928
|
1928 |
pilots law |
08265 |
Plan showing the limits of the Port &
Harbour of Bristol, 1930
|
1930 |
|
12715(2-3) |
Pilots Benefit Fund, 1931-9
|
1931 - 1939 |
|
40145/Ph/9(1) |
Plan showing limits of port and harbour of Bristol, 1932
|
1932 |
|
177 |
Film of Bristol docks presented by the Docks
Office staff, 24 May 1933 |
1933 |
ports |
742 |
Fire Insurance Deed containing insurances, including
policies for Portishead Docks & Tobacco Warehouses, for five year period,
28 September 1934
|
1934 - 1939 |
ports commerce |
745 |
Deed for dock insurance for five years including Portishead
Docks & Tobacco Warehouses, 28 September 1934
|
1934 - 1939 |
ports commerce |
38247 |
Records of H.D. Thornton & Co., 1935-61
|
1935 - 1961 |
|
37980/F4/1-2 |
Daily receipt books including that of Torquay steamer
voyages, 1937-72
|
1937 - 1972 |
passengers finances |
40095/X/3 |
Centenary of the Great Western, 1938 |
1938 |
ship |
40095/E/12 |
SS Cato, 1939-40
|
1939 - 1940 |
ship |
32173/282S |
Lifeboats, 1940-6
|
1940 - 1946 |
|
40194/B/11 |
Dock labour scheme at Sharpness, 1941 |
1941 |
docks |
44286 |
Fred Llewellyn, sailor: correspondence with family in Staple Hill, Bristol while on naval service, 1944-6.
|
1944 - 1946 |
seamen mariners |
11757(114?)S |
Royal Merchant Navies Appeal, 1945
|
1945 |
naval |
37980/A1S |
Logbooks of PS Ravenswood, 1948-53
|
1948 - 1953 |
ship |
37980/A1/S |
Logbooks of the Empress Queen, 1948-9
|
1948 - 1949 |
ship |
42829 |
The Old Chequers and Bath Marina Boat Club: minutes, accounts and correspondence |
1948 - 2004 |
societies leisure sailing |
38247/PP/1-2 |
Records of T.R. Brown & Sons Ltd, 1949-73
|
1949 - 1973 |
|
40095/L/25 |
Agreement of Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd, 1950
|
1950 |
shipping |
40525 |
National Dock Labour Board minutes, 1952-89
|
1952 - 1989 |
unions employers |
40163/P/38 |
Miguel M. Gomez, sherry shipper, Cadiz, 1952
|
1952 |
merchant |
43651 |
Turner, Edwards & Co. Ltd., shipowners and ship brokers, Bristol: ephemera and photographs, 1952-66.
|
1952 - 1966 |
brokers ships shipowners |
32173/666 |
Docks and Inland Waterways Executive (South Western
Division), 1953
|
1953 |
canals transport government |
32173/166-9 |
Bridgehead City Docks, 1957-60
|
1957 - 1960 |
|
39290/FW/LN/12-26 |
Notes, 1959
|
1959 |
Admiralty Court |
39290/FW/LN/18 |
Extract from Lloyd's list & shipping gazette, 31
December 1959
|
1959 |
|
40220 |
Towage journal of R & J.H. Rea, 1962-5
|
1962 - 1965 |
pilots |
37980/A1 & X2 |
Logbooks and photographs of the St Trillo, 1963-7
|
1963 - 1967 |
ship |
40095/L/36 |
Agreement, Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd, 1963
|
1963 |
shipping |
40587 |
Records of the West of England Freight Terminal ltd, 1966-93
|
1966 - 1993 |
|
37980/X4S &A1S |
Log books and advertisment of the Balmoral, 1969-79
|
1969 - 1979 |
ship |
32173/433 |
SS Great Britain project, 1970
|
1970 |
ship |
42968 |
Charles Hill & Sons Ltd., shipbuilders and repairers, shipowners, Bristol :addditonal records |
1970 - 1979 |
construction Companies |
40095/PP/36 |
Hermes, 1976
|
1976 |
ship |
37980/A1 & X4 |
Logbook and advertisement of the Devonia, 1978
|
1978 |
ship |
42785 |
Bristol Sailor's Home: additional records |
1979 - 1997 |
welfare mariners |
44050 |
Bristol Harbour Festival: oral history interviews with people with Bristol-Nannover [sic], Bristol-Bordeaux twinning links 2007.
|
2007 |
Hannover Bordeaux Bristol harbour ports |