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Shakespeare Inn is a 17th-century pub on Victoria Street, in Bristol, England.It is a timber-framed house, dated 1636 on the front, which was extensively restored in 1950, under the direction of F.L. Hannam, [1] and re-roofed in 1992.
The park was established in the 1880s following the expansion of Bedminster as a residential and industrial area within Bristol. The council bought 51.5 acres (20.8 ha) of land from Sir John Henry Greville Smyth for £20,678 (now £2,904,000), though the land had been used as an unofficial open space and meeting area for some time before this.
The Mauretania is a pub in the English city of Bristol, built in 1870 by Henry Masters, with a rear extension being added in 1938 by WH Watkins.It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building.
The King's Head is a Grade II listed pub in Bristol, England. [1] It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. [2] It was built in the mid-17th century, refurbished about 1865, with later 19th and 20th-century additions. [1]
There is also the Bristol Jamia Mosque [11] close to Victoria Park as well as thriving Methodist, CofE and Baptist churches. In 2015, an artisanal bakery [12] opened for business opposite the Oxford Pub on Oxford Street, replacing a long since closed Chinese restaurant. A number of new independent businesses have also opened along the Wells ...
The Stag and Hounds is a grade II listed pub in Old Market, Bristol. [1] The oldest parts of the building date to 1483, when it was probably as a private house. The current building is predominantly from the early 18th century, when it became a pub. It was partly rebuilt in the 1960s, and refurbished in 1987.
The origin of the name of Whiteladies Road appears to be a pub, known as the White Ladies Inn, shown on maps in 1746 [4] and 1804. [5] There is a popular belief in Bristol that the naming of both Whiteladies Road and Blackboy Hill had connections with the slave trade. However, both names appear to be derived from pubs.
A trow was a flat-bottomed barge, and Llandogo is a village 20 miles (32 km) north-west of Bristol, across the Severn Estuary and upstream on the River Wye in South Wales, where trows were once built. Trows historically sailed to trade in Bristol from Llandogo. The pub was named by Captain Hawkins, a sailor who lived in Llandogo and ran the pub ...