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A trow was a flat-bottomed barge, and Llandogo is a village 20 miles (32 km) north-west of Bristol, across the Severn Estuary and upstream on the River Wye in South Wales, where trows were once built. Trows historically sailed to trade in Bristol from Llandogo. The pub was named by Captain Joe McMahon, a sailor who lived in Llandogo and ran the ...
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Welsh Back looking south Welsh Back in 1908. Welsh Back is a wharf and street alongside the floating harbour in the centre of the city of Bristol, England.The wharf and street extend some 450 metres (1,480 ft) along the west side of the harbour between Bristol Bridge and Redcliffe Bridge.
Samuel Clift obtained from Sir Edmund Andros, Provincial Governor of New York, a grant of 262 acres (106 ha) for a plantation across the river from Burlington, New Jersey, the site of Bristol in Pennsylvania. Clift established the ferry service between the Pennsylvania and New Jersey settlements and built an inn in Bristol to service the ferry ...
Bristol city centre is the commercial, cultural and business centre of Bristol, England.It is the area north of the New Cut of the River Avon, bounded by Clifton Wood and Clifton to the north-west, Kingsdown and Cotham to the north, and St Pauls, Lawrence Hill and St Phillip's Marsh to the east.
The city of Bristol was incorporated as a town in 1785 and as a city in 1910. It historically had two principal villages, the southern one located near the banks of the Pequabuck River, where early industrial activity developed. The city center arose on the north side of the river in the pre-Civil War 19th century, when the town became America ...
Some of the furnishings from the RMS Mauretania were installed in a bar/restaurant complex at the bottom of Park Street, [2] initially called "Mauretania", now "Java". The lounge bar was the library with mahogany panelling: above the first-class Grand Saloon with French-style gilding overlooks Frog Lane.
Lewin's Mead is an area of Bristol, England, part of the city ward of Cabot, in the historic centre of the city, lying just outside the former medieval town walls.Several old buildings survive, including the Unitarian Chapel constructed in the late 18th century, [1] an old sugar house [2] and the ancient thoroughfare known as Christmas Steps.