EPW001267 ENGLAND (1920). Bristol Temple Meads Station, Bristol, 1920

Victoria Street Rail Overbridge - link to the Bristol Harbour Railway via Redcliffe Tunnel and Bathurst Basin Bridge. Demolished April 1992.

The John Hare & Co Colour Works

Bristol Railway Mission Hall opened in 1896 as the Railway Gospel Temperance Hall. Prior to the opening meetings had been held in an upper room of Bristol Temple Meads Joint station from around 1880. The GWR provided the land for the hall in Pyle Hill Goods Yard, as they had the room in the Joint Station. The most famous leader of the Bristol branch of the Railway Mission was Miss Emma Saunders of Clifton. She had been involved with the Mission from 1880 until 1924. She is commemorated on a marble tablet at the station and was known as 'The Railwaymen's Friend' or 'The Lady with the Basket'. The latter after the basket in which she used to carry small gifts and leaflets to give to upto 2,000 men each month across railway installations in the Bristol area..

RALPH'S HOME IN 1943 TO 1948 MEAD STREET BRISTOL" REF PIN".

The Nelsons Arms Pub stood here until the mid 1990's...Please correct if wrong!

Tram stopped at the 3 lamps headshunt, where the double tracks ended in one, allowing reversal

Great Western 'Toad' brakevan at the end of a goods train on the line avoiding Temple Meads Station

largest glasscone in britain, 125 feet (1780-1936)

St. Nicholas Church

Coaling shed

Locomotive turntable

Site of major expansion of the station in the mid 1930's

Goods depot

St Philip's Bridge destroyed in a direct bomb hit in the blitz. Pity about the trams!

St Michael's Hill and St Michael's Church on the left.

The floating harbour

S Mary Redcliffe

The avoiding line by-passing Temple Meads which was increasingly congested.

Bristol Bridge

Temple Church with its leaning tower. Only the tower survived the blitz in WW2

Brunel's original GWR terminus.

Bath Bridge. Around 1958 I was travelling in a coach towards Bristol. It would have been around 6pm. As our coach started to cross the bridge the Police Officer on point duty suddenly left his post and many other bystanders ran to the swinging bars of the safety railing marking the diving point of a car with 'L' driver and instructor inside. All traffic had stopped and brave souls were leaping into the River Avon. Sadly all to no avail.

Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station

Victoria Street

Bristol & Exeter Railway Offices

Bristol Bath Road Locomotive Depot GWR

Three Lamps Junction A37/A4