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The Bristol Historical & Preservation Society is holding its House Tour 2024 on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tour 12 private houses in historic Bristol, spanning 300 years of ...
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 ...
The University of Bristol Drama Department offers undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in performance and screen studies. [17] The University of the West of England offers undergraduate and post-graduate drama and film programmes. [18] Circomedia is a training school for circus and physical theatre skills offering foundation degrees and BTEC ...
The estate was sold to Bristol City Council in 1926, to preserve it from development. [20] During World War II the house was occupied by the armed forces. [9] A branch of the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery since 1949, Blaise Castle House now features collections relating to household items in addition to its period interior decoration. [20]
The Red Lodge was originally built at the top of the gardens of "ye Great House of St. Augustine's Back". [4] The Great House was built in 1568 [5] on the site of an old Carmelite Priory, later still the site of Bristol Beacon (formerly named Colston Hall), [4] [6] by Sir John Young/Yonge, the descendant of a merchant family and courtier to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
The Georgian House is a historic building at 7 Great George Street, Bristol, England. It was originally built around 1790 for John Pinney, a wealthy sugar merchant and slave plantation owner, and is now furnished and displayed as a typical late 18th century town house. The period house museum includes a drawing room, eating room, study, kitchen ...
Quakers Friars (grid reference) is a Grade 1 Listed building in Broadmead, Bristol.Part of the former Blackfriars Priory site, it was used as a Quaker meeting house for nearly three hundred years, more recently serving as a registry office, a theatre, and a series of restaurants.
The Royal Fort House is a historic house in Tyndalls Park, Bristol. The building currently houses the University of Bristol 's Faculty of Science offices, the Brigstow Institute, Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research, the Cabot Institute and the Jean Golding Institute for data-intensive research.