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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.
An area outside the castle, known as Old Market, was used as a mustering point for troops. It later became a market for the country people to set up stalls and sell their wares. Old Market was also the site of an autumn fair. [7] The market may have existed as early as the 12th century, and was the site of the first suburb outside the city walls.
A smaller Midland Railway terminus station, Bristol St Philip's, opened nearby but was closed in 1953 and subsequently demolished. The bar has a sloping floor. [ 6 ] In 2000 Thomas Brooman , co-founder and managing director of World of Music, Arts and Dance took charge of the Palace. [ 7 ]
The Stag and Hounds is a grade II listed pub in Old Market, Bristol. [1] The oldest parts of the building date to 1483, when it was probably as a private house. The current building is predominantly from the early 18th century, when it became a pub. It was partly rebuilt in the 1960s, and refurbished in 1987.
In the 1966 report, a three-lane dual-carriageway road was planned to replace the West Street one-way system, giving a direct high-capacity link between the Inner Circuit Road at Temple Way and the Outer Circuit Road at Easton Way. [8] These plans heralded decades of planning blight in Old Market Street and West Street.
The demolition of Lawford's Gate at the eastern end of Old Market Street extended this into West Street, creating an uninterrupted route into the bustling heart of Bristol. [ 9 ] Wine Street and Castle Street became the main shopping streets, where retailers such as Boots , Jones's (later to become part of the Debenhams group), the Co-op and ...
He tried to find a police station before driving to a supermarket on West Street, Old Market, where he knew staff spoke English. Shop staff and other members of the public tried to perform first ...
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.