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Muster roll
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From ships’ muster roll book, 29th September 1772 – 29th September 1773; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive. Muster roll no: SMV 36.
Muster roll for the ship, the Windsor , for a voyage from Jamaica, 1772.
All but one of the crew were from Bristol. The youngest was about 10 years old.
The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors Hospital Fund (insurance).
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.
Date: 1772
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Part of muster roll
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Ships’ muster rolls from the 29th September 1765 – 29th September 1766. Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 246.
Part of muster roll for the ship, the Elizabeth from Barbados.
The master, Nichols Pocock, was also an artist. He drew the ship’s portraits , which show scenes of Tradeing on ye coast of Africa and probably had served on slaving ships before taking command of merchant ships trading from Bristol to the Caribbean.
The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors’ Hospital Fund (insurance).
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.
Date: 1760s
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
Photograph
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Photograph of bags of cocoa beans being unloaded onto a barge to go up the the river Severn and the canal to Cadbury’s at Bourneville outside Birmingham, 1947. The bags are being unloaded from the ship SS Jonathon Holt at Avonmouth Docks, Bristol. Cocoa beans are grown on plantations in the Caribbean and America.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Chocolate was first used as a drink, sweetened with sugar to mask the bitter flavour of the chocolate. Later it was used for making eating chocolate. At this period, most people drank beer, wine or spirits. Water was not safe to drink, tea coffee and chocolate were expensive. Quakers promoted drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcohol.
Date: 1947
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:PBA 1147
Photograph
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Photograph of banana berth with the ship SS Carare. Ships carrying bananas from the Caribbean would unloaded here.1934, N Shed, Avonmouth dock , Bristol.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: 1934
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:PBA 434
Photograph
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Photograph of delivery floor with barrels of tobacco, in B Bond shed, Bristol.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: 1920
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:PBA 210
Photograph
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Photograph of worker sampling barrels of tobacco, A Bond shed, Bristol.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: 1920
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:PBA 208
cottonseed meal
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Photograph of the Ship SS Topa Topa; unloading cottonseed meal, probably from America, onto Bristol Docks Railway, 1927. Cottonseed meal was a by-product of the cotton production and was imported to Britain to be used for cattle food.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco)
Date: 1927
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:PBA 168
Photograph
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Photograph of Mahogany logs being unloaded from the ship SS Ediba from West Africa at ‘Q’ Shed, Avonmouth Dock, 1927.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: 1927
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:PBA 151
Photograph
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Photograph of Mahogany logs being unloaded from the ship SS Ediba from West Africa at Q Shed, Avonmouth Dock, 1927.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: 1927
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:PBA 149
Photograph
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Photograph of banana berth where ships carrying bananas from the Caribbean, would be unloaded.1926, N Shed, Avonmouth dock , Bristol.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: 1926
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:PBA 135
