Bridgwater Alfred 2.70, 3 December 1832

Notes from the 3 December 1832 edition of the Bridgwater Alfred:

There is very little in this edition of local interest, yet along relating to the town of Bridgwater, at least not already in the previous editions (such as the adverts for Henry Clark’s London Warehouse on the Cornhill and his winter wares, or George Aubrey’s for Almanacs) or not entirely focused on the political questions and meetings.

There is a notice advert for a Mr Tucker selling timber elm trees at Ilminster.

Mr Astell resigns as Member of Parliament for Bridgwater after serving for twenty years. He has been mentioned several times in the previous year’s Alfred.

Brief mention of the church at Kingston Purbeck in Dorset being rebuilt, and a new Gothic tower erected on the site of the old church.

Wikimedia Commons. The old church tower of Kingston, Purbeck, mentioned in the Bridgwater Alfred for 3 December 1832. This is in an early form of the Gothic Revival, not quite as confident and sophisticated as will be seen at St John’s Bridgwater in the following decade.

An article on Devonshire Cattle is includes, along with an extensive section on births, marriages and deaths, although no Bridgwater individuals are mentioned.