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Sangat Singh Sabha Gurdwara

Originally used as a girls’ church school until 1950 and then variously as a Conservative Club and veterinary supplies storage and distribution centre, the Church of England Diocesan Board of Finance sold it to the Sikh community for use as a gurdwara. In 1987 a simple kitchen extension was proposed and his, according to architectural historian Andy Foyle, ‘raised the most rabidly racist objection letter seen in any of the Bristol planning files.

Content generated during research for the paperback book 'Bristol: Ethnic Monorities and the City 1000-2001' (ISBN 13 : 978-1-86077-477-5 ) for the England's Past for Everyone series

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