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Numbers 13 and 14 Orchard Street and attached front area railings: Bristol city centre: House: 1717–22: 8 January 1959: 1207768: Upload Photo [158] Numbers 27, 28 and 29 Orchard Street and attached front area railings and gates: Bristol city centre: House: c. 1720: 8 January 1959: 1202407: Upload Photo [159]
The large brick home is the most historic house in Bristol, Virginia. The handmade brick residence was built 1816-1820 by Colonel James King on the highest point of his property overlooking his meadows where he raised cattle. The settlement was once known as “King’s Meadows” before it took the name of Bristol nearly half a century later.
Escutcheon of the White baronets of Cotham House. The White baronetcy, of Cotham House in the City and County of Bristol, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 26 August 1904 for George White, owner of Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company, and the founder of the Bristol Aeroplane Company. [1]
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. A third bombed church has been given ...
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The parish of Brislington was historically part of the Keynsham Hundred in Somerset. [3]Brislington is also near to the site of the now demolished chapel of St. Anne's-in-the Wood (actually in nearby St Anne's), erected by one of the Lords de la Warr, whose family held the manor of Brislington from the late 12th to the mid-16th century; in the 15th century the chapel was a place of pilgrimage ...
Turning such slag into a building material became quite common in Bristol during the second half of the 18th century. It was a way of disposing of waste 'cinders' that had previously been dumped on the banks of the River Avon , to the annoyance of Bristol's City Council, who noted in 1749 that this was ‘a very great nuisance and likely to ...
Southville is an inner city ward of Bristol, England, on the south bank of the River Avon northwest of Bedminster. Most of the area's houses were built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for workers in the Bristol coal mining industry or the tobacco factories of W. D. & H. O. Wills, homes of the eponymous "Wills