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Bristol Beacon, previously Colston Hall, is a concert hall and Grade II listed building on Colston Street, Bristol, England. It is owned by Bristol City Council. Since 2011, it has been managed by Bristol Music Trust. The hall opened as a concert venue in 1867, and became a popular place for classical music and theatre.
Bristol and West of England Amateur Photographic Association formed. [31] Industrial Exhibition held. [5] Daily Bristol Times and Mirror newspaper in publication. [16] 1867 – Bristol Beacon concert hall opens as Colston Hall. [2] 1870 – Gloucestershire County Cricket Club formed. 1871 – Bristol Museum and Library established. [32]
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.
An execution chamber, or death chamber, is a room or chamber in which capital punishment is carried out. Execution chambers are almost always inside the walls of a maximum-security prison , although not always at the same prison where the death row population is housed.
Some of the pictures of the 1898 fire and rebuilding at this page might be nice, but I am nervous about claiming PD-old or similar licence.— Rod talk 19:29, 4 October 2017 (UTC) There are also some older pics and good material in this weeks Bristol Post article.— Rod talk 19:49, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
Bristol is the second largest city in Southern England, after the capital London. Iron Age hillforts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th ...
The earliest surviving church in Bristol is St James' Priory [10] in Horsefair, Whitson Street. It was founded in 1129, as a Benedictine priory, by Robert Rufus.The 12th century also saw the founding of All Saints [11] and St Philip and Jacob [12] churches. [9]
His four books—Cell 2455, Death Row; Trial by Ordeal; The Face of Justice; and The Kid Was a Killer—became bestsellers. He sold the rights to Cell 2455, Death Row to Columbia Pictures, which made a 1955 film of the same name, directed by Fred F. Sears, with William Campbell as Chessman. Chessman's middle name, Whittier, was used as the ...