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The majority of public transport users in the Bristol Urban Area are transported by bus, although rail has experienced growth and does play an important part, particularly in peak hours. Since 2017 the Mayor of the West of England and the West of England Combined Authority have the primary responsibility for organising public transport in the ...
A preserved Bristol K5G Bristol Omnibus Company bus. Horse-bus services in Bristol were started in 1887 by the Bristol Tramways & Carriage Company, with a service from the Victoria Rooms (connecting with the trams) to Clifton. [1] [2] The horse-buses were replaced by motor buses from 1906, first on a service from the city centre to Clifton. [3]
Jacobs Wells Baths, formally called Hotwells Public Baths, [1] is a former public baths on Jacob's Wells Road, Bristol.Built in 1889 and designed by Bristol City Surveyor [4]: 63 Josiah Thomas, the baths closed in the late 1970s and were converted in the 1980s into a community managed dance centre, which closed in 2016. [5]
Bristol Central Library is a historic building on the south side of College Green, Bristol, England.It contains the main collections of Bristol's public library.. Built in 1906 by Charles Holden, its design was influential in the development of Edwardian Free Style architecture. [1]
Until 1906 it housed the main collections of Bristol's public library, which was one of the first in England when it was founded in 1613 on the same site. [2] [3] Users of the library included Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey and Humphry Davy. [4] From 1779 the building also contained one of the country's first public displays of fossils ...
The Centre is a public open space in the central area of Bristol, England, created by covering over the River Frome. [1] The northern end of The Centre, known as Magpie Park, is skirted on its western edge by Colston Avenue; [2] the southern end is a larger paved area bounded by St Augustine's Parade to the west, Broad Quay the east, and St Augustine's Reach (part of the Floating Harbour) to ...
This is a list of public art in Bristol, England. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space. For example, this ...
The park and ride site in 2008, with a Severn Beach train in the background. The railway through the site was inaugurated on 6 March 1865, when services began on the Bristol Port Railway and Pier (BPRP), a self-contained railway which ran along the north bank of the River Avon to a deep-water pier on the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth.