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The New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, commonly known as the Muller Homes, were an orphanage in the district of Ashley Down, in the north of Bristol. They were built between 1849 and 1870 by the Prussian evangelist George Müller to show the world that God not only heard, but answered, prayer. The five Houses held 2,050 children at any one time ...
The orphanage continued on the Ashley Down site until 1958. Orphan Houses 2, 4 and 5 are now owned by Bristol City College, while No 3 House (in which Müller lived for the last few years of his life and in which he died), on the other side of Ashley Down Road was converted into private flats in 2007.
George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split, his group was called the Open Brethren.
Ashley contains the neighbourhoods of Montpelier, St Andrews, St Paul's and St Werburgh's, along with parts of Baptist Mills and Stokes Croft.Its southern boundary is Bristol's inner ring road; the south-eastern boundary is the M32 motorway and its extension, Newfoundland Road; to the north-east it is Filton Bank railway; and to the west is the A38 road (Stokes Croft, Cheltenham Road and ...
Between 1849 and 1870, five large stone buildings were erected by George Müller to care for 2,050 orphans in his Ashley Down orphanage. [70] Cabot Tower is situated in a public park on Brandon Hill. It was built in 1897 by William Venn Gough in memory of John Cabot, 400 years after he set sail from Bristol and landed on what is now Canada. [71]
As of 2020, over 18% of the population is aged 16–24, compared to the Bristol average of 16%. Nearly 30% of the population is aged 25–39, higher than the Bristol average of 27%. [5] For elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Bishopston and Ashley Down is part of the Bristol North West constituency. [6]
Based on the "Betrayal" true crime podcast, the three-part special interviewed Jason's estranged wife Ashley Lytton, his 18-year-old stepdaughter, Avaya, and more people in their inner circle who ...
LOCAL TV Bristol (formerly known as TalkBristol) [1] is a local television station serving Bristol and surrounding areas. The station is owned and operated by Local Television Limited and forms part of a group of eight local TV stations, now known under the Talk TV brand. [2] The station broadcasts on Freeview on channel 7 from the Mendip ...