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On the afternoon of 24 November 1940, 148 aircraft of the Luftwaffe left airfields in Northern France heading for Bristol. The concentration point was to be the City Docks, and their objective was to destroy Bristol's industry and port facilities. 135 aircraft reached the target area, and dropped 156,250 kg (344,470 lb) of high explosives, 4,750 kg (10,470 lb) of oil bombs and 12,500 incendiaries.
Looking across Castle Park in central Bristol, England, from a tethered passenger balloon at 500 ft (150 m). St. Peters was gutted by enemy action on November 24/25 1940. The channeled River Avon (called the Floating Harbour) is on the left. Date: Taken 16th July 2005. Source: My own photo, taken with an Olympus C750UZ. Author: Myself (Adrian ...
On the extreme left and right of the image can be seen the buildings of the Castle district, which were heavily bombed during the Bristol Blitz, leaving the area known as Castle Park. The foundation of the church can be traced back to 1106 when it was endowed on Tewkesbury Abbey , [ 1 ] with a 12th-century lower tower, the rest of the church ...
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Bristol and Bath Science Park; Bristol and South Wales Union Railway; Bristol pound; Dixie Brown; Elizabeth Casson; Castle Park, Bristol; Ichabod Chauncey; City Hall, Bristol; Clifton Antiquarian Club; Climate of south-west England; Coventry City 2–2 Bristol City (1977) George Cumberland; Goéry Delacôte; Murder of Anni Dewani; Dorothy ...
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Castle Park View is a 26-storey high-rise in Bristol, England. Completed in 2022, the development occupies the site of the former Central Ambulance Station at the corner of Castle Street and Tower Hill and was proposed in 2017, with work starting in 2019.
A modernist hotel and car park built dockside in 1966, while the docks were still in active use; now The Bristol Hotel. Like much of British post-war development, the regeneration of Bristol city centre was characterised by Modernist architecture including Brutalist towers such as Castlemead - one of several notable examples of brutalist ...