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Arnos Court Hotel is a three-storey main block, with an attached service wing. The planning is entirely classical, but the main house has what Andrew Foyle describes as a "superficial Gothic trim". [1] The building was extended to the rear in the 19th century when it was used as a convent. [b] [6] Arnos Manor Hotel is a Grade II* listed ...
The Palace Hotel was built in 1869 for the wine and spirits merchant John Sharp. [3] At that time it was thought that a new Great Western Railway main station was going to be established nearby. For that reason it was to be called the 'Railway Hotel', [ 4 ] but Isambard Kingdom Brunel 's Temple Meads station was built half a mile south, so ...
Old Market is a Conservation Area of national significance, to the east of the city centre in Bristol, England. [1] Old Market Street and West Street form the central axis of the area, which is approximately bounded by New Street and Lawfords Gate to the north, Trinity Road and Trinity Street to the east, Unity Street and Waterloo Road to the south and Temple Way Underpass to the west.
Westbury Park is a suburb of the city of Bristol, United Kingdom.It lies to the east of Durdham Down between the districts of Redland and Henleaze.The area is very similar in character to nearby Redland and comprises mainly Victorian and early twentieth-century architecture, along with a selection of Georgian buildings.
The hotel was renovated in 2017 in a £5 million refurbishment program, and is now known as the Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel. [2] It has 186 rooms, and is extensively decorated with art by local Bristol artists. [4] [5] In 2013, the Russian emigre Nikolai Glushkov became ill there, in a suspected poisoning incident. [6]
Bristol is the largest city in South West England and one of the 11 'Core Cities' in the United Kingdom. [1] Currently, the tallest building in Bristol is Castle Park View at 98 metres, and has held the record since topping out in November 2020. [2] The tallest structure in Bristol is a wind turbine in Lawrence Weston, at 150 m.
Easton is an inner city area of the city of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Informally the area is considered to stretch east of Bristol city centre and the M32 motorway, centred on Lawrence Hill. Its southern and eastern borders are less defined, merging into St Philip's Marsh and Eastville. The area includes the Lawrence Hill and Barton Hill ...
There is a pub, the Grapes Hotel, to the Stoneclough end of the bridge and several others in the near vicinity. Prestolee has a small primary school. [ 9 ] The book The Idiot Teacher by Gerard Holmes tells the history of the school, run for very many years by Edward "Teddy" O'Neill (1890-1975), who believed children should be self-directed in ...