Using a postcard collection, this book includes locations such as the church where Agatha Christie married one Christmas Eve, a street of eighteenth-century houses, the railway through the rocks of Avon Gorge, Royal York Crescent and more. This work aims to show that evidence of the past can be seen in everyday surroundings.

MAURICE FELLS is a born and bred Bristolian with a passionate interest in the city’s history, and a prolific author of books about Bristol. He worked as a journalist in both the print and broadcast mediums, and held key editorial posts in regional television, radio and newspapers. He now freelances, with features on local history appearing in the Western Daily Press and Bristol Post. He is often asked by BBC West and ITV West to take part in programmes about regional history. He has also written features about the regeneration of Bristol City Docks for national newspapers.