Bedminster History

Bedminster has a rich and varied history. If you know anything about Bedminster's past, share it with us here!

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DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE DISUSED, LOCKED UP GARDEN- SPACE ON NORTH STREET? In between Carr Power Products and the new Bath Ales pub, 'The...

By Cagcoolcat at 19:56 on 09/07/12
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East street Bedminster...recognize anybody? http://tinyurl.com/82ag4gz http://tinyurl.com/72h8yof

By ejcole at 08:51 on 23/03/12
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I have just bought The Fire Station on York Road and and in the process of bring it up to date and giving it a good clean and spruce. We are creating...

By chrisawilson at 16:40 on 13/03/12
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The last fatality in a Bristol Coal Mine...Frank Plummer's rescue from Speedwell Colliery in 1932. Frank Plummer was a Bedminster man working at...

By ejcole at 15:42 on 01/03/12
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Hello, I am looking for a picture of Inshops that was in bedminster a fair few years ago! Does anyone know where I would be able to get one please?...

By bemmie1990 at 21:01 on 14/02/12
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Hello Hannah, Have you found that maps site of the City yet? Just Google Bristol knowyourplace .. Tis fantabulous! Good luck, Ted.

By ejcole at 20:18 on 18/04/11
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An estimated 50,000 people used to watch Public Executions taking place at this Gaol on Cumberland Road. I have read that the scaffold would be raised...

By ejcole at 21:47 on 15/04/11
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see below..This poor chap apparently had an accident at work just a few years before that affected him mentally... He actually had the keys from the...

By ejcole at 21:28 on 15/04/11
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A man judged to have been one of the ringleaders involved in breaking into the Gaol on Cumberland Road at the time of The Bristol Riots of 1831 was...

By ejcole at 21:20 on 15/04/11
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There was once a man mauled to death by a Lion or a Tiger at the back of The Star North Street ( and would you believe) whilst partaking in a Boxing...

By ejcole at 21:09 on 15/04/11
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