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An innovative, high profile, youth-led, inter-generational and inclusive project in Bristol to take an educative journey through heritage...
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The beautiful Goddess Oshun
Oshun (also known as Ochun or Oxum in Latin America), is the Yoruba Goddess that rules over the sweet waters of the world, the brooks, ...
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The Role of Women in WW1
When World War One began, women were generally tied to a life of domesticity. Most middle class women had never worked but were now ...
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‘Floating down The Malago’
A song inspired by the floods of Bristol Verse I As we recall in ‘68 The waters rose through the City gates It flooded Eastville, and St....
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The Hauliers Association
“My Grandfather was a haulier and lived in Redcliff. One day he befriended a young man who had come up from a small village on Exmoor...
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Memories of Troopers Hill
“I’m lucky to live very close to Troopers Hill tower; this is the view from my house. I like watching the changing seasons over...
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Memories of Beese's Tea Gardens
“I have many happy memories of visits to Beese’s and nearby walks along the river with my partner, before he passed away. Especially the...
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Memories of Feeder Canal
“My Dad worked on the canal, he used to bring horse drawn barges carrying coal, up through Hanham” Eileen
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Memories of Clifton Suspension Bridge
“I worked on the suspension bridge in 1964, preparing it for the centenary celebrations since its opening. I worked adding lights to...
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Memories of Snuff Mills at Frenchay
“I have vivid memories from my childhood of all the renovation work that was done on the water mill and weirs and to make the area into...
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Memories of St George's Park, St George
“I have lived in this area all my life and have been visiting the park since I was very little. The park has changed a lot over the...
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Treen Mills to Bathurst Basin
Just next to the old Bristol General Hospital (built in 1859 and now being developed for luxury accommodation) is Bathhurst Basin....
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Flooding through the centuries
Flooding has been a constant theme throughout our research of our Blue Green Bristol project including of the Rivers Frome and Avon....
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Some quite surprising and colourful uses of coal tar products!
Coal tar, also known as liquor carbonis detergens (LCD), is a very thick, dark liquid with a number of medical and industrial uses. As a...
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Crew's Hole & Creosote
Two miles upstream from Bristol Bridge on the River Avon is Crew’s Hole (laying outside the Bristol conurbation), which started to be...
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Philip John Worsley & chemical manure
In 1861 Philip John Worsley became the manager (on six months’ probation) of Netham Chemical Company Works on the banks of the Feeder...
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Trade & Royal Monopolies
The Statute of Monopolies was an Act of Parliament which allowed monarchs to grant patents (originally over particular industries to ...
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Feeder Canal
The life blood of Bristol's new industries The Feeder Canal was built through the rural countryside to the east of Bristol centre in...
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The Lost River fair and brisk
The River Frome - a 'little but useful river' You may be forgiven for not knowing (given the state and general disappearance of the Frome...
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Baptist Mills & the trouble with brass
In 1710 the foundry at Cheese Lane, which is where the lead shot tower still stands today, was valued at £1,738! Brass is made by...
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