by the First ResidentsBS3 Heritage Group for Futures Past The Bedminster awaiting new residents in the early 19th century was a small community centred around an ancient parish church, overlooking fertile pastures, and orchards, through which a constant stream of water flowed. Buildings were few and fields were plentiful. Apart from East Street, a major thoroughfare giving access to Bristol to and from the west, the landscape was rural. Ashmead's Map of Bristol, 1828. The Ma

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

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....

Just next to the old Bristol General Hospital (built in 1859 and now being developed for luxury accommodation) is Bathhurst Basin....