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Originally used as a girls’ church school until 1950 and then variously as a Conservative Club and veterinary supplies storage and distribution cen

The Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara, Church Road, St. George, Bristol is in a building built in 1894-95 originally as the St.

This building was acquired by Sikhs in 1978 to replace the city’s first Gudwara which had been originally 1958 at 8 St.

It was in 1977 that the Chelsea Road Gurdwara was first established .

In 1962, Avonmouth Dockers refused to work with any 'coloured' labour resulting in the dismissal of some 60 'coloured workers.' These mainly West I

The Owen Street Mosque moved into a building originally erected in 1901 at the City Street Mission.

The late Victorian period was one of public health reform and the construction of new streets in the city.

The Bristol and West Progressive Jewish congregation was formed in 1961 and met briefly in members’ houses then met at the meeting house of the Red

This scroll now in the Bristol and West Progressive synagogue has a remarkable provenance.

After the expulsion of 1290, Jews were not allowed in England and Wales, though there were some ‘secret Jews’ illegally resident in the city by the

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