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
Dixie Brown was one of the very few men of African descent living in Bristol in the early inter-war period and was a much loved father and 'grandfe
Document 6988, photograph courtesy of the Westminster Abbey Muniments
This brass crown dating from the early 1700's, was probably used as a ceremonial piece for trades processions in Bristol.
The Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery is a large museum and art gallery in Bristol, England.
The Wills Memorial Building was commissioned in 1912 by George Alfred Wills and Henry Herbert Wills, in honour of their father, Henry Overton Wills
'The Georgian House' was once the home of the Pinney family.
More links to trades are found on Park Street and Great George Street, both expensive addresses today and in the past.
Hannah More (1745-1833), a Bristol Quaker, established a school for young ladies on this site.
Bristol Cathedral was founded as St Augustine's Abbey in 1140 by Robert Fitzharding, a wealthy local landowner and royal official.
This street was popular with people from the slave trade.
