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The train was driven to Bristol without incident, although some misting of the driver's window was reported. The driver of that train was not the driver later involved in the SPAD at Wootton Bassett. During an empty coaching stock movement to St Philip's Marsh depot , the emergency brake applied because the driver did not cancel an AWS warning ...
The Bristol Cable has broken stories on workplace abuses in the catering sector (October 2014); [2] Bristol University's holdings in fossil fuels, which was used by people campaigning for its divestment and prompted a change by the University (June 2015); [2] [6] [11] ownership of property in the city by offshore companies based in tax havens (January 2016 and January 2018); [2] the Mayor and ...
Parnall & Sons Limited was a shop and ship fitting and aircraft component manufacturer in Bristol, England.The original company was set up in 1820 by William Parnall in Narrow Wine Street, initially making weights and measures, before expanding into shop keeping equipment and shop fittings.
The St Vincent's Works is a former factory and offices at Silverthorne Lane in Bristol, England. The building was built as offices and factory by Thomas Royse Lysaght , for his brother John Lysaght of John Lysaght and Co. with the buildings being completed by R Milverton Drake .
At the time of construction it was the first high rise building in Bristol to "break an unofficial height limit" of 30.5 metres (100 ft). [3] The Robinson building caused "controversy, both locally and nationally, and was seen by many as failing to respond to its environment, in particular its physical relationship to the adjacent Church of St ...
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (which originated in King Street) is a separate company, and the Bristol Hippodrome is a 1,951-seat theatre for national touring productions. Other smaller theatres include the Tobacco Factory , QEH , the Redgrave Theatre at Clifton College , The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol Improv Theatre, and the Alma Tavern.
Bound for Kwigillingok, Alaska, carrying materials and equipment for the construction of a sewage treatment plant, the 187-gross register ton, 99.9-foot (30.4 m) tug/barge sank in heavy seas with the loss of her captain in Bristol Bay, 118 nautical miles (219 km; 136 mi) southwest of Dillingham, Alaska.
The Mount Without, formerly the Church of St Michael on the Mount Without, is a former church, now a creative space, on St Michael's Hill in Bristol, England, near the University. It has been designated as a grade II* listed building , [ 1 ] and was described as being in poor condition and on the Buildings at Risk Register as recently as 2021.