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BT's in today’s Bristol Post with a 1960s Bristol murder tale with shades of the Talented Mr Ripley; a local naturalist who worried about climate change 200 years ago; where to get the best Guinness in old Bristol and some other bits, too. Best dash out for your copy now!

In 1885, 11-year-old Mary Emily Wookey swam half a mile of Bristol's New Cut with her hands and feet tied. Thousands watched her attempt the full mile 9 years later, though few knew of the private tragedy that drove her. It's all in Bristol Times in today's Bristol Post. Dive in and get a copy now!

Bristol Times is in today's Bristol Post. It's got: the Bath brother and sister who got triggered by Shakespeare; the back story to the all-purpose Bristol City Council News Story Photo AND the 1930s Tarzan of ... Coalpit Heath. Don't miss!

Bristol Times is in today's Bristol Post with a long look at the bright lights, sights (and smells) of the city 100 years ago. A time of "flappers", high unemployment and fears of revolution. Only in BT, only in the Post, in the shops today. Don't miss!

Evangelism, Tumps Nature Area, Patchway.

This year we're going to go to 1974 to do the big Christmas food shop at the Co-op as it'll be cheaper. Though it might be best not to speculate as to why they thought plastic buckets were seasonal essentials.

Things on top of Bristol bus shelters, no. 9. Engagement ring, Union Street, 2017. This was the stop just outside Wilko. Perhaps she saw him kissing another girl in the homeware department, ran out in tears, caught the no. 2 bus home and flung his ring out of the window. Will we ever know?

Gents! Get your "party scene" shirts from C&A in Broadmead in December 1974. These men have all got theirs and are laughing at the man in the corner who can only afford a 99p nylon shirt from the Co-op's Fairfax House department store.

Things on top of bus shelters no. 8. Umbrella, Clifton Down Shopping Centre, May 2024, seemed appropriate for today.

Things on top of Bristol bus shelters, no. 7: My milkshake brings all the boys to stop B5 on Nelson Street in 2011.

A brightly painted shell hood over a door in Tailors' Court is all that remains of what was once a powerful Bristol "brotherhood". The story of its last days reads like something Charles Dickens would have devised, but it's all true and it's all in Bristol Times, in today's Bristol Post.

Things on top of Bristol bus shelters, chapter the sixth. Slowly rotting sandwiches in clingfilm, Henleaze, 2009. If you want to make this a metaphor for anything, that's your business.

Things on top of bus shelters, no. 5: Fright mask (at least I hope that's what it is), Clifton Down Shopping Centre, 2016.

Things on top of bus shelters #4. Single welly and one-third full bottle of what looks like Co-op orange-style drink, Bedminster 2022.

Jesus Christ Superstar? Godspell? A Bristol council estate - Lockleaze - got there first with a "beat music" passion play about JC performed by local youngsters in 1960. I'll tell you all about it in Bristol Times, in the middle of today's Bristol Post. Get it now. The snow's not that bad.

Things on top of Bristol bus shelters no. 3: Decaying pineapple, Whiteladies Road, 2018.

Things on top of Bristol bus shelters #2. Pair of daps, College Green, July 2013.

I have been collecting pictures of random things left on top of bus shelters, mostly in Bristol and now want to share with everyone. To start with, a pair of glasses, a plastic fork and some moss, November 2013. You're welcome.