by the West Street Heritage Group for Futures Past Bedminster – did a monk named Bede build a church here? Or, from Bede, a place of baptism perhaps in the Malago Stream? Certainly the ancient church of St. Johns was a prominent feature until the 1960’s and the Malago Stream has flowed forever albeit now, mostly covered over. Historically, an Iron Age Fort existed within its boundaries and the Romans may have marched along a route which today we might recognise as West Street

Archaeological investigations from 2015-2018 at the former Mail Marketing site on West Street revealed late Neolithic/early Bronze Age flint and pottery.  Structural features and artefacts suggested an enclosed rural agricultural settlement, established during the later Iron Age.