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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.
Bristol city centre: House: 1717–22: 8 January 1959: 1207768: Upload Photo [158] Numbers 27, 28 and 29 Orchard Street and attached front area railings and gates: Bristol city centre: House: c. 1720: 8 January 1959: 1202407: Upload Photo [159] Numbers 25 and 26 Orchard street and attached front area railings and lamp: Bristol city centre: House
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 ...
Location of Bristol Castle shown on an 1882 map of the city. Keep marked in yellow, curtain walls in red. The castle was built on a strategic site on the eastern side of the walled town, between the River Avon on the south and the River Frome on the north, joined by a canal to form the castle moat on the east side, with a weir on the north to compensate for differing water levels in the two ...
Castle Park View: 98 26 2022 Residential Castle Park: 2 Soapworks 81 21 2024 Residential Old Market: The image is a former soap factory forming part of the development. 3= Castlemead: 80 19 1981 Office Castle Park: 3= St. Mary Redcliffe: 80 3 1442 Religion Redcliffe: Previous tallest building in Bristol between 1442-1446, until the tower ...
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.
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Bristol's city centre was severely damaged, especially in November and December 1940, when the Broadmead area was flattened, and Hitler claimed to have destroyed the city. [96] The original central area, near the bridge and castle, is now a park featuring two bombed-out churches and fragments of the castle. A third bombed church has been given ...