Pauper Graves Memorial Unveiling - Avonview Cemetery, St George
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Time: 1.00pm
Location: Avonview Cemetery, Beaufort Road, St. George, Bristol, BS5 8EN
In 1972 the Eastville workhouse buildings (an elderly peoples home) at 100 Fishponds Road were demolished. Our research has shown that there was a crude disinterment of the workhouse burial ground during the demolition, with 167 boxes of large bones moved to unmarked common graves at Avonview Cemetery, St George. Thanks to donations from the Eastville Workhouse Memorial Group, the Church of England dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol and Bristol City Council a gravestone has been designed, carved and installed by local mason Matthew Billington. This will be a fitting end to a project which has both researched and memorialised the 4,084 inmates of Eastville workhouse who were hitherto forgotten. All welcome. More details here.
Book launch: Behind the Myth of Peter the Painter
Date:
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: The Cube, Dove Street South, [off top-left of King Square], Kingsdown, Bristol BS2 8JD
Price: £5/£4, booking here
Bristol Radical History Group is excited to host the UK book launch of A Towering Flame: The Life and Times of the Elusive Latvian Anarchist Peter the Painter (published by Breviary Stuff Publications). The Houndsditch murders of three City of London policemen, and the ensuing “Siege of Sidney Street” on 3 January 1911, in which Latvian anarchists took on Winston Churchill and the British Army, have entered into East London folklore. But no one ever accounted for the mysterious Peter the Painter, the leader of the gang. This book has finally solved the mystery. Here for the first time is proof of the real identity of Peter the Painter; the amazing story of his life and revolutionary career; and of the hitherto unknown history of Latvian anarchism. The author, historian Philip Ruff, will present and talk about his book. There will then be a Q&A and discussion. More details here.
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