The following have been scanned from a copy of the Portishead Parish Magazine of May 1875, concentrating on some social history aspects (as opposed to the religious contents).
The inside covers and back cover bear a number of advertisements.
It is good to see that Mr Helyar, surgeon dentist of College Green, Bristol employed anaesthetics for the painless extraction of teeth.
For those of an enquiring disposition, a "Millpuff" mattress (bottom of the middle page above) is a mattress stuffed with 'millpuff'', which is a coarse type of wool 'flock' (reference found on the Old Manuscripts blog along with a very interesting explanation).
Apart from the advertisements, the other thing that caught my eye was the updates to the Parish Register (Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials). Six of the deaths were children out of fifteen deaths in total.
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