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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.
On the extreme left and right of the image can be seen the buildings of the Castle district, which were heavily bombed during the Bristol Blitz, leaving the area known as Castle Park. The foundation of the church can be traced back to 1106 when it was endowed on Tewkesbury Abbey , [ 1 ] with a 12th-century lower tower, the rest of the church ...
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 ...
A modernist hotel and car park built dockside in 1966, while the docks were still in active use; now The Bristol Hotel. Like much of British post-war development, the regeneration of Bristol city centre was characterised by Modernist architecture including Brutalist towers such as Castlemead - one of several notable examples of brutalist ...
This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in Ohio and other landmarks of equivalent landmark status in the state. The United States' National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [6]
Bristol Castle, as depicted on James Millerd's 1673 map of Bristol. At some time after the Norman conquest of England in 1066 a motte-and-bailey was erected on the present site of Castle Park. [11] Bristol was held by Geoffrey de Montbray, Bishop of Countances, one of the knights who accompanied William the Conqueror.
Ohio counties (clickable map) This is a list of properties and districts in Ohio that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are over 4,000 in total. Of these, 73 are National Historic Landmarks. There are listings in each of Ohio's 88 counties.
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 ...