St Werbuggers
Place
Also appears as: St Werburgers
Bristol hillside and revolutionary allotment zone. Correctly St Werburghs; less correctly, and therefore more usefully, St Werbuggers.
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…she cheerfully attributed to the hours she put in on her allotment on the hillside leading down to St Werbuggers, but which those of us with a more cynical cast and unfounded pretensions to medical expertise blamed on polycystic ovarian syndrome. Mrs Mather-Steiner was a staunch, and at times almost fanatic, advocate of a natural, organic lifestyle. Before retiring to her allotment, she had spent her working life toiling with…
…not to make his home - withal choosing to live at some distance in the leafier purlieus of St Werbuggers. Betimes, he made it his business to have a hand in the disbursement of portions of the choice truffles which he snuffled up to those graffers who by dint of his and their sliminess fell within the purview of his patronage.
…effect that sympathisers of the mob who inhabited a … er … squat near the Mynah’s Arms in St Werbuggers were planning to show a subversive film rejoicing in the title
…struck a course for his home in Mangotsfield, which took him up onto Montpelier Hill and down through St Werbuggers and across the footbridge over the motorway where it limned the boundary between that suburb and Easton. He had not gone very far through Easton, when he came upon Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet, staggering with raucous companions out of a very tumbledown terraced house in a side street just off the…