by the West Street Heritage Group for Futures Past This artwork is produced by children at Compass Point School, who have learned about the West Street coalmine and the lives of the miners. The exhibition focuses on the pit explosion of 13th August 1891 when 10 men were killed. In 2016, the West Street Neighbourhood Group organised a two day pop up museum in the United Reformed Church Hall. 500+ people visited, many with stories and photos of their lives on and around our hi

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.