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Lost Bristol
Bristol has a rich historical heritage dating back to the city's beginnings in Anglo-Saxon times. For centuries, it was England's second city and, as a thriving port, its past is steeped in its involvement in trade, whether of cloth, wine, pottery, glass - or slaves. As there is no commercial shipping now, much of Bristol's past is hidden within the modern city, just out of sight, but waiting to be discovered. In an informed and entertaining style, Victoria Coules uncovers events and episodes such as the 1793 bridge toll riots, the jurisdiction of the Knights Templar over certain areas in Bristol and the creation of the Floating Harbour. "Lost Bristol" also reveals how a thirteenth-century quay became a traffic roundabout, what happened to Bristol's own hot water spa, and why Bristol merchants in search of cod may have pipped Christopher Columbus at the post. Many more surprising and remarkable stories about Bristol's past, accompanied by maps, engravings and photographs, make this book essential reading to all those curious about the city's hidden history.
The Naked Guide to Bristol: 2nd Edition
The Naked Guide to Bristol is a witty and fast paced guide to all things Bristolian from a "warts and all" bluffer s guide to the city s history right through to its sights, politics and culture. It includes one of the most in-depth pieces ever written about Bristol s ground-breaking music scene and a who s who of local celebrities and eccentrics. This is no bland, censored local history lesson. The Naked Guide to Bristol tears off the covers and shows just what makes the city tick. Whether that be the street art dotted all over town or cutting-edge alternative art at the Cube, Bristol is covered in all its glory. This text refers to the Paperback edition. Synopsis "The Naked Guide to Bristol" is the funniest, most comprehensive and best guide book to Bristol that there has ever been. Taking an irreverent sharp stick and puncturing inflated hype and spin wherever it finds it, this guide book gives you an up-close, in-depth and, above all, honest view of this great city. Take a grand tour of Bristol's architectural and cultural highlights, find welcoming pubs, lip-smacking eateries and wallet-emptying shops, and discover the history, politics and music of this counter-culture capital. It's all laid bare inside.
Bristol: City on the Edge
Bristol lies comfortably inland, protected by wooded hills, sprawling in linear charm along five miles of dramatic valley topography. While neighbouring Bath sets its classical terraces primly on a slope, Bristol's Clifton throws its adventurously styled terraces around the neck of precipices and wild woodlands to achieve that ultimate paradox of classicism fusing into Romanticism. Add to that two cathedralsized churches of outstanding beauty. While the vile profits of Bristol's infamous eighteenth-century slave trade resulted in enchantingly figurative Rococo interiors, a surge of nineteenth-century wealth endowed the city with a financial quarter of an eclectic brilliance. The second mystery might explain the first. For a thousand years Bristol has been badly governed. In every age, out of greed or plain stupidity, Bristolians have made the wrong decisions in developing their city, yet art and architecture have rioted in the resultant thousand errors. The aim of this book will be to illustrate those errors and attempt to account for the paradox.
Bristol at Work
Bristol's working life, the foundation of the economy of the city, has never before been the subject of a detailed, highly illustrated history. John Penny's fascinating account of this vital aspect of the city's past uses a remarkable selection of rare photographs and other illustrations to record the variety of businesses, trades, industries and services that generated Bristol's wealth and gave a livelihood to its people. Over the centuries Bristol has established itself as a centre for industries as diverse as tobacco, chocolate, chemicals, brick-making, pottery, ship-building, motorcycles, publishing, banking, insurance, plane-making and brewing. Throughout this time the city functioned as one of the foremost ports in the country. Conditions and processes in these trades and industries are described in vivid detail, and the author recalls the generations of Bristolians who spent their lives working Many readers will be surprised to learn of the huge variety of work carried out locally over the last 150 years and will be reminded of just how many well-known local firms have disappeared within their lifetimes. John Penny's revealing, thoroughly researched and lively account will be essential reading for everyone who enjoys Bristol's history. Tour Bristol.
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