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Bristol City Council, formerly known as The Bristol Corporation (and colloquially as "The Corporation"), is the local government authority governing the city of Bristol, England. Following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, successive royal charters granted increasing rights of local governance to Bristol. County status was attained in ...
Bristol Archives (formerly Bristol Record Office) [1] was established in 1924. It was the first borough record office in the United Kingdom , since at that time there was only one other local authority record office ( Bedfordshire ) in existence.
The weather stations nearest Bristol for which long-term climate data are available are Long Ashton (about 5 mi (8 km) south west of the city centre) and Bristol Weather Station, in the city centre. Data collection at these locations ended in 2002 and 2001, respectively, and following the closure of Filton Airfield, Almondsbury is the nearest ...
Bristol's city centre also suffered severe damage, especially in November and December 1940, when the Broadmead area was flattened, and Hitler claimed to have destroyed the city. [112] The original central area, near the bridge and castle, is still a park featuring two bombed out churches and some fragments of the castle.
1 April: County of Avon abolished; Bristol once again becomes both a city and a county. 24–27 May: First International Festival of the Sea held in and around the Harbour; replica 15th-century ship Matthew dedicated. 19 July: MoD Abbey Wood opened at Filton. [46] City of Bristol College established by merger of Brunel College and South Bristol ...
Through Jan. 7, hunters had killed 63 deer in Bristol, 37 of them on town land. Bristol’s deer harvest this season far outnumbered the 24 deer killed in 2022 and the 16 taken in 2021, according ...
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City Hall (formerly the Council House) was built as the seat of government of the city of Bristol, in the south west of England, opening in 1956.Designed in the 1930s, with construction delayed by the Second World War, it is in a restrained Neo-Georgian style, forming a wide curve along one side of College Green, opposite Bristol Cathedral and at the foot of Park Street in the Bristol city ...