history

• News / Temple Church

  Restoration work begins on bombed-out Redcliffe church

  Marking the first step of an ambitious transformation project

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• Books / Sea Mills

  New book celebrates memories of Sea Mills

  How Lucky I Was contains childhood memories of Sea Mills in the 1930s to 1950s

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• Features / history

  Solving the mystery of the South Down Park gates

  The gates are located at the end of Church Road in Abbots Leigh

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• Your say / fozia ismail

  ‘In my family, dried camel meat and tapes would be sent instead of letters’

  Fozia Ismail shares an important part of Somali nomadic culture.

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• News / women

  Celebrating the bicentenary of trailblazing doctor’s birth

  Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3, 1821

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• Features / history

  What is St John’s Conduit?

  A bit of Bristol history next to Nando's

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• Features / history

  The tree on Brandon Hill remembering Anne Frank

  It was planted in 2009 on what would have been Anne Frank's 80th birthday

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• Features / history

  What did Bristol’s centre used to look like?

  From flowers to fountains and toilets to trams

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