::: totterdown (bs4)
‘totters’ or travelling tradesmen made their way down the steep hill to the riverside on their way to market
over the years they wore many paths which gave the area its distinctive appearance
::: totterdown (bs4)‘totters’ or travelling tradesmen made their way down the steep hill to the riverside on their way to market over the years they wore many paths which gave the area its distinctive appearance |
::: clifton down stationthe station was opened on 1 october 1874 until the 1970s excursion trains were run to the station from south wales for visitors to bristol zoo – trains known as “monkey specials” an additional subway style entrance to the station from whiteladies road was removed in the early 1990s the original station waiting room, ticket office and station-master’s house, which stands as a testament to previous grandeur, is now an australian theme pub known as the “roo bar” it is now unstaffed with no ticket machines, meaning tickets should be bought on the train. the disused station building’s bricked-up windows and doors feature artwork of animals created by students at the north bristol post 16 centre at the redland green learning community as part of an art and design course, and to promote links to bristol zoo |
::: st george (bristol 5)st george was originally outside the city boundary until about 1860 the area was once the end of the tram line from the city of bristol, the terminus being in beaconsfield road st. george was once a mining area but now only pit names remain to remind everyone of this district’s mining history ie deep pit road |
::: nice – a potted historythe name traces back to the greek ‘nikaia’ (city of victory) nice has been created and shaped by successive waves of foreigners who occupied the eastern end of the bay of angels facing antibes the romans had their time in nice (as they did in most of europe) after their decline and fall, the city became part of provence until 1388 then the savoies of switzerland and northern italy took over in 1860 a long debated deal was finally struck: napolean III repatriated nice to france in exchange for military help for italy in it’s own creation (vs austria) mussolini’s italians occupied nice from november 1942 they were replaced by german troops in september 1943 allied forces liberated the city on august 28 1944 |
::: the harbourside (bristol 1)bristol grew up on the banks of the rivers avon and frome since the 13th century, the rivers have been modified for use as docks including the diversion of the river frome in the 1240s into an artificial deep channel known as “saint augustine’s reach” saint augustine’s reach became the heart of bristol’s docks with its quays and wharfs the river avon within the gorge, and the river severn into which it flows, has tides which fluctuate about 30 feet (9 m) between high and low water this means that the river is easily navigable at high-tide but reduced to a muddy channel at low tide in which ships would often run aground many ships were deliberately stranded in the harbour for unloading, giving rise to the phrase “shipshape and bristol fashion” to describe boats capable of taking the strain of repeatedly being stranded as early as 1420, vessels from bristol were regularly travelling to iceland it is speculated that sailors from bristol had made landfall in the americas before christopher columbus or john cabot much of the harbourside is under redevelopment – a plethera of questionnably styled new build appartments
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