epw034461 ENGLAND (1930). Ashton Gate and Leigh Woods, Bristol. from the south-east, 1930

Railway sidings

Merchants Arms

Bayntons Buildings

Ashville Road

The Tobacco Factory

Frayne Road BS3

Toll House

St. Francis Church - Blitzed in December 1940 when parts of the roofs were burnt but quickly restored, only for the whole interior to be lost in the air raids of Good Friday 1941. After the second world war the ruins were cleared and a new church was built 1950-53.

Raleigh Road

W D & H O Wills Factory - mother & grand mother both worked here.

Ashton Gate Primary School - attended 1963>66

Duckmoor Road

View of what is named Dry Dock on the 1917 1:2500 OS map.

Looking west across the entrance to Merchant's Dock towards the Cumberland Basin. View taken 6th August 2013.

The Pump House PH View taken today, 6th August 2013, on the Gromit Trail.

Clift House part of the Clift House Estate since at least 1676. Dower House part of Ashton Court Estates,home of Dame Elizabeth Smyth 1802-1825. Became a isolation hospital from around 1885 until the late 1910,s. Demolished around 1934. The park is the remains of the Estate.

Wellington Cottage built on the site of an old lead mine.

The New Inn ancient pub on the original Rownham Ferry,from the 1700,s

New Rownham Ferry

This is a double-decker swing bridge that carries a road on top and a railway line from the docks to the Portishead Branch on the lower deck. The asymmetric swing section turns on its ‘centre’ being the pier below the control tower arched over the road deck. Image EPW033497 shows a train approaching the bridge from the Docks side.

The Clifton Suspension Bridge was Brunel's first major project. The asymmetry of the valley required rather different construction for each tower. On the north side the slope rises cliff-like to a shoulder, upon which a relatively low abutment was built on solid rock to carry the north tower. On the south side the slope is closer to 45 degrees requiring a footing to be made and a considerable amount of masonry to be put in place before the south tower and the approach road could be built. The southern Leigh Woods abutment appears from the outside to be solid. However, it contains a series of large faults arranged in a way that maintain the strength of the structure under the tower while keeping the weight of material to be placed on the slope as low as possible. The difficulties experienced in the work caused the construction period, initial set at 12 to 15 months, to take from 1835 to 1840 and to push the cost £2,000 over the estimated £8,000.

Bristol City football ground at Ashton Gate

Coronation Road, Bedminster

Paddle steamer. One of the White Funnel fleet. Sailings along the Bristol Channel to ports in South Wales and other tourist destinations such as Clevedon, Weston-super-Mare and maybe Ilfracombe

Greville Smyth Park

May & Hassell Ltd, timber importers

River Avon (new Cut). Built circa 1809, when Bristol's floating harbour was created. Said to have been built, in part, by French prisoners of war

Clifton Bridge railway station

Clifton Observatory, Camera Obscura - originally a snuff windmill damaged in a gale in 1777

Avonmouth

Cornwallis Crescent, Clifton

Royal York Crescent, Clifton

The Paragon, Clifton

Windsor Terrace

Bonded tobacco warehouse dating from about 1905

GWR branch line to Portishead

Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge

Confluence of the Severn and the Bristol Avon

Cumberland Basin