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Channel 4 show to unearth the history of a street in Bristol
A new Channel 4 series will explore the extraordinary histories hidden within within ‘ordinary’ residential roads across the country – including one in Bristol.
Museum of Us is set to be a collision of a detective story and design challenge, as residents of single streets are set the task of curating a museum about the history of their road.
Each week, presenter Sir Tony Robinson will guide a team of a historian, designer and curator to a different road where locals will uncover its stories of the past – culminating in a pop-up museum.
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The Bristol street featured in one episode of the four-part series will be Hebron Road in Bedminster.
Details of the episode showing the street running between North Street and West Street have not been revealed, but one clue could be its chapel – Hebron Chapel – thought to be built in 1853. The late-Victorian terrace is also home to a graveyard.
David Olusoga presented A House Through Time which focused on a home on Guinea Street in Redcliffe – photo: BBC
The series is being made by Uplands TV, the production company run by historian and broadcaster David Olusoga.
Echoing his celebrated series A House Through Time which too featured Bristol (Redcliffe) in series three, Museum of Us aims to “bring history right to our doorsteps” as local people piece together a hyperlocal history of their homes.
Olusoga said: “Tens of thousands of streets across the UK have fascinating histories hidden behind their front doors. We are delighted to be working with local residents and local museums to bring their untold stories to More4.”
Other locations featured across Museum of Us are in Birmingham, Aberystwyth and Norwich. Channel 4 have dubbed the series as a “revolutionary new history format”.
About the programme, Tony Robinson said: “Museum of Us will be celebrating the lives, the histories and the ingenuity of ordinary people, and bringing communities together to make something wonderful. I’m thrilled to be involved.”
Main photo: Betty Woolerton
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