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L Shed: Princes Wharf: 1998: 600: theatre, conferences: part of the M Shed museum, has hosted Bristol Old Vic and Head, Hearts and Two Fingers productions [27] Little Theatre: Colston Street: 1923: 300: theatre: turned into a bar for the Colston Hall in 1980; has since been re-purposed as a music venue (the Lantern). [28] New Vic: King Street ...
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 ...
Stephen of Blois reconnoitred Bristol in 1138 and claimed that the town was impregnable. [2] After Stephen's capture, in 1141, he was imprisoned in the castle. [3] The castle was later taken into royal hands, [4] and Henry III spent lavishly on it, adding a barbican before the main west gate, a gate tower, and a magnificent hall. [5]
The transit sheds, dating from 1894, had fallen into disrepair but had Grade II listed building status. [7] [8] By 2004, it was attracting more than half a million visitors per year. [2] A major refurbishment in 2004/5 cost £2 million, creating a third cinema, extending the café/bar and making the building more accessible. [9]
A mix of unavailable inventory and high mortgage rates of over 7% have driven people to wait out the inflation and mortgage interest rate storm and rent a place to live.
It used to be accompanied by the Merchants Hall but this was destroyed in the Bristol Blitz of World War II. [6] In 2014 a long lease for the almshouses was signed for £620,000. [7] The plaque on the wall is a poem: "Freed from all storms the tempest and the rage Of billows, here we spend our age. Our weather beaten vessels here repair
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It includes the campus of Bristol Grammar School, and many of the buildings of the University of Bristol. The area is named after Thomas Tyndall, [1] a Bristol merchant and investor in the slave trade, [citation needed] who between 1753 and 1767 bought a number of fields which then existed in the area and turned them into an ornamental park. [2]