The Bristol Connection

Peter Strong

£6.00 (including UK p+p)

Peter Strong’s new book is an exploration through the medium of the Frost family of the neglected story of the political, cultural and commercial links across the Bristol Channel between the city of Bristol and Newport and other parts of south east Wales in the 19th century. After John Frost was transported to Tasmania in 1840 following the Newport Rising, his wife and family moved to Bristol, settling first in Montpelier and then in Stapleton. When Frost returned from exile in 1856 he lived out his days in the family’s Stapleton cottage, and was buried in Horfield parish churchyard in Bristol after his death in 1877. Peter Strong is a retired history teacher and is the current Chair of Gwent County History Association. 

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