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St George's is a former church in Great George Street, off Park Street, on the lower slopes of Brandon Hill in Bristol, England. Since 1999 it has been used as a music venue known as St George's Bristol. It was built in the 1820s by Sir Robert Smirke. It is a Grade II* listed building. [1]
St George was originally in Gloucestershire, outside the city boundary, and the terminus of the tram line from Bristol was in Beaconsfield Road. It became a civil parish as Bristol St George in 1866, and briefly an urban district from 1894 to 1898. [3] On 1 April 1898 the parish was abolished and merged with Bristol. [4]
From the early 18th century, Crew's Hole was an industrial area that included oil refineries and a tar works site at the bottom of Troopers Hill. [ 1 ] The tar works was established by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1843 to provide creosote to be used as a preservative for railway sleepers and by 1863 had passed into the ownership of Brunel's ...
The number of councillors elected for each electoral division or ward is shown in ... Bristol East: St George Troopers Hill: 1 6,459 4,663 Bristol East: St George West: 1
The Bristol Brass Company began copper smelting in 1810 at Crew's Hole, and later expanded with a chimney further uphill which gave a better draught condition for the furnaces. [1] Anthony Ammatt established a pottery at Crew's Hole in 1812, using clay transported from the Isle of Wight and Poole .
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The hill was divided into lots around the Weybridge Golf Club, which was designed by Harry Colt in 1912. [4] Many of the original houses on the estate were built by master builder Walter George Tarrant , whose firm constructed Kenwood's original external garage c. 1920 (it was demolished c. 1995).
Cotham / ˈ k ɒ t əm / is an area of Bristol, England, about one mile (1.5 kilometres) north of the city centre.It is an affluent, leafy, inner city suburb situated north of the neighbourhoods of Kingsdown and St Paul’s and sandwiched between Gloucester Road (A38) to the east, and Hampton Road to the west.