For around 100 years the skylines of Bedminster and Ashton were dominated by the red brick buildings of Wills and other tobacco firms. Once a major part of Bristol’s industrial and civic heritage, the tobacco factories have all gone now, some demolished and some transformed into new ventures. But they,…
Join author and rail enthusiast Andrew Swift detailing the story of one of the most challenging sections of the original Great Western to build. A construction project fraught with problems, pitched battles between gangs of navvies, and court battles between engineer Isambard…
Author and professor of Modern History at University of Bristol, Sumita Mukherjee presents the unique experiences of the very youngest South Asian migrants to Bristol from the Victorian era to Partition, instrumental not only in shaping Indian national and diasporic identities but forming an essential part of the Bristol we…
The footnotes of Bristol’s distant and recent history are littered with schemes for roads, bridges, railways, buildings and things which for one reason or another (usually money) never got built. There are even more structures which did get built, but in very different (usually cheaper) forms to the original plans.