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Broadmead is a street in Bristol city centre in England, which has given its name to the principal shopping district of the city. It is part of Bristol Shopping Quarter. It is part of Bristol Shopping Quarter.
The Galleries (formerly The Mall Bristol, but originally opened in 1991 as The Galleries Shopping Centre) is a shopping mall situated in the Broadmead shopping centre in Bristol city centre, England. Functioning as one of the city's retail malls, it is a three-Storey building, which spans over Fairfax Street.
Cabot Circus is a covered shopping centre in Bristol, England. It is adjacent to Broadmead, a shopping district in Bristol City Centre.The Cabot Circus development area contains shops, offices, a hotel, 250 apartments and a cinema (currently vacant, soon to be Odeon). [2]
Broadmead Baptist Church, in the heart of the Broadmead shopping centre in Bristol, makes the list as a “striking example of post-war church architecture”.
Bristol city centre is the commercial, cultural and business centre of Bristol, England. It is the area north of the New Cut of the River Avon , bounded by Clifton Wood and Clifton to the north-west, Kingsdown and Cotham to the north, and St Pauls , Lawrence Hill and St Phillip's Marsh to the east.
Like much of British post-war planning, regeneration of Bristol city centre was characterised by large, cheap tower blocks, brutalist architecture and expansion of roads. Since the 1990s this trend has been reversed, with the closure of some main roads and the regeneration of the Broadmead shopping centre. [120]
A shopping street [1] or shopping district [2] is a designated road or quarter of a municipality that is composed of retail establishments (such as stores, boutiques, restaurants, and shopping complexes). Such areas may be pedestrian-oriented, [3] with street-side buildings and wide sidewalks.
As a centre of aircraft manufacturing, Bristol was a target for bombing during the Bristol Blitz of World War II. [95] 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]