Postcode: bs1
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‘just in’, corn st, bristol 1
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‘corn corner’, corn st, bristol 1
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‘the gamblers’, corn st, bristol 1
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college green is a public open space at the bottom of park st, bristol
it is surrounded by, in brief, the council house (behind a water feature), a busy street also known as college green (with an interesting looking building in the middle: the lord mayor’s chapel, st mark’s church) and bristol cathedral
on the green are statues of queen victoria and raja rammohun roy
originally a small hill north of the avon, separated from brandon hill to the north by a narrow gully, it was enclosed to form the precincts of st augustine’s abbey in the 12th century
after the dissolution the abbey church became bristol cathedral
a plaque near the centre records that the green still belongs to the dean and chapter of the cathedral
from 1733 it was the site of the bristol high cross, honouring various british monarchs
the green is a popular hang out spot, especially over summer, for smokers, picnickers and hulla-hupas of all ages
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‘play’, college green, bristol 1
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‘collage green’, college green, bristol 1
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‘switch’, college green, bristol 1
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park st links bristol city centre to clifton
it is a steep st lined with shops, bars and restaurants
though it still maintains an edge, many of the independant shops have now been replaced by chains
originally: development began in 1740 when the city council leased land to nathaniel day to open a new street
the upper part of the street was developed from about 1786 and work was suspended in the financial crisis of 1793, resumed and completed about ten years later
a standard design by thomas paty was used for park street’s houses; plain facades, three windows wide, in bath stone
park street was bristol’s earliest example of uniformly stepped terracing
the philosophical institution, now freemasons’ hall, was built by r.s. pope for c.r. cockerell in 1821
a cast-iron viaduct to take the street over the natural gully between college green and brandon hill was built by r.s. pope in 1871
many buildings on park street suffered bombing on 24 november 1940 in the bristol blitz. 30 were destroyed, 6 burnt out and 3 severely damaged. nearly all though were later rebuilt and restored
in 1976 a huge gas explosion destroyed some of the buildings near the bottom of the road, most were rebuilt as replicas
some of the furnishings from the rms mauretania were installed in a venue, initially called “mauretania”. the neon sign on the south wall still advertises the ‘mauretania’: installed in 1938 this was the first moving neon sign in bristol
visible from the viaduct, on the side of a sexual-health clinic in frogmore street, is a mural by local graffiti artist banksy
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‘east face’, park st, bristol 1
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‘man from uncle’, park st, bristol 1
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