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Barton House was constructed by 1958 at a cost of £315,744 (now more than £6.1 million). [2] [3] [4] Strengthening works and concrete repairs were carried out around 1970, but there were no records of any structural surveys between then and at least 2018. [5] A picture of Barton House, Barton Hill facing West.
William Miles (1728–1803), Sheriff of Bristol in 1766, Mayor of Bristol in 1780 and Warden of the Merchant Venturers, lived at number 61 (now renumbered as 69/70/71) and the house became the offices of his family's extensive business interests. [11] [12] [13] The first overseas US Consulate was established at what is now No.37 Queen Square in ...
A nineteenth-century view of 1–5, King Street by Samuel Loxton. King Street is a 17th-century street in the historic city centre of Bristol, England.. The street lies just south of the old town wall and was laid out in 1650 to develop the Town Marsh, the area then lying between the south or Marsh Wall and the Avon.
Corn Street, together with Broad Street, Wine Street and High Street, is one of the four cross streets which met at the Bristol High Cross, the heart of Bristol, England when it was a walled medieval town. From this crossroads Corn Street and its later extension Clare Street runs downhill approximately 325m south-westwards to The Centre. [1]
The building of Park Street started in 1761 and it was Bristol's earliest example of uniformly stepped hillside terracing. [2] The street runs from College Green up a steep incline northwards to join Park Row near the eastern corner of the Clifton Triangle. Looking up the street there is a dramatic view of the Wills Memorial Building.
The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.
Bristol (/ ˈ b r ɪ s t əl / ⓘ) is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. [8] [9] Built around the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south.
High Street, together with Wine Street, Broad Street and Corn Street, is one of the four cross streets which met at the carfax, later the site of the Bristol High Cross, the heart of Bristol, England when it was a walled medieval town. From this crossroads High Street runs downhill south-east to Bristol Bridge, a distance of approximately 155m. [1]