Aerospace Bristol
Aerospace Bristol is a brand new industrial museum in Filton, which tells the amazing story of Bristol’s world class aerospace industry, and houses Concorde Alpha Foxtrot: the last of the iconic supersonic passenger jets to be built and the last to fly.
The archives of Aerospace Bristol opened to the public in April 2018. The archives are housed within the brand new Concorde building, in a purpose built facility, including an archive store, reading room and office space, built to PD5454 standards. Click here to read about the Friends of Gloucestershire Archives visit.
The archives also hold the substantial company archive which dates from 1910. The companies represented in the archives include the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, Bristol Aeroplane Company and British Aircraft Corporation, and material on Concorde. The archive includes minute books, account books, sales ledgers, annual reports, photographs, glass plate negatives, drawings, film and ephemera. There are also books and journals supporting the collection.
Photographs courtesy of BAE Systems
Many of our catalogue descriptions are available to search on the National Archives Discovery catalogue.
More information is available on our website http://aerospacebristol.org/archives/ or by emailing archives@aerospacebristol.org.
The History of Stoke Gifford Website
This aim of this history compiled by Adrian Kerton is to bring together the history of Stoke Gifford that is scattered around various institutions and to capture memories and memorabilia of the local residents.
Adrian Kerton writes -
I have always had an interest in historical buildings and when I joined Hewlett-Packard in 1985 I then had some spare time to research the history of the farm and of Stoke Gifford where I lived. The research revealed histories written by Ros Broomhead, daughter of one of the vicars of St. Michaels, the Rev D Evans, and Mike Hill, keen local historians.
Sharon Ubank created the Stokes Standard, a series of booklets documenting much of the history with resident’s interviews and I am indebted to local historians Harold Lane and Mike Stanbrook and residents who shared photos and the archivist at the Badminton. Martin Davis who had lived at Little Stoke farm where his father had introduced the naturalist Peter Scott to Slimbridge, has contributed much of the family archive.
The website has grown to more than 180 pages and I am still on the lookout for more material to add to the history. Look inside to discover more information on Stanley Farm. https://stokegiffordhistory.wordpress.com/
Explore, and you will find some wonderful images like this pair.
