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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.
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 ...
Bristol city centre is the ... The area to the north and west of Castle Park, ... Map of Bristol City Centre circa 1900 Archived 14 August 2011 at the Wayback ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:58, 26 September 2010: 1,138 × 1,266 (683 KB): Nilfanion {{Information |Description=Map of Bristol, UK with the following information shown: *Administrative borders *Coastline, lakes and rivers *Roads and railways *Urban areas Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160
The walk starts in Bristol's Castle Park by crossing Bristol Bridge, the oldest of the bridges. [6] It briefly returns to Castle Park one more time by crossing St. Philips Bridge and Castle Ditch Bridge and then moves back and forth across between the quarters of Redcliffe and Old Market via Temple Bridge and two modern bridges named Valentine ...
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.
Map all coordinates using ... Parks in the city of Bristol, England. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ... Castle Park ...
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.