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Queen Square is a 2.4 hectares (5.9 acres) Georgian square in the centre of Bristol, England. [1] Following the 1831 riot, Queen Square declined through the latter part of the 19th century, was threatened with a main line railway station, but then bisected by a dual carriageway in the 1930s.
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Contemporary sketches of Queen Square after the riots The destruction caused during the night of 30/31 October, in which many private houses were attacked, shocked the citizens of the city. The middle classes were provoked into action and some 3,000 men reported for duty in the posse comitatus on the following morning. [ 19 ]
The first mansion house in Bristol was erected in Queen Square in 1783. [1] A carriage carrying the anti-reform judge Charles Wetherell and the mayor Charles Pinney was attacked on 29 October 1831 and they sought refuge in the mansion house. [2]
The 3rd Dragoon Guards suppressing the 1831 Bristol riots. The Bristol Riots of 1831 took place after the House of Lords rejected the second Reform Bill, which aimed to get rid of some of the rotten boroughs and give Britain's fast growing industrial towns such as Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, Bradford and Leeds greater representation in the House of Commons.
English: One of 4 statues representing America, Asia, Africa and Europe on Queens Square House, 19-21 Queen Square, Bristol by an unknown artist, from 1885-86. Building was the former offices of the Bristol Docks Authority.
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The Sailors Refuge is an historic house situated at 27–29 Queen Square, Bristol, England. It dates from 1709 to 1710 and is one of the few remaining houses from the original construction of the square. [1] It was one of the architecturally richer houses, and provides an example of what the more demanding segment of houseowners required. [2]