View looking along Welsh Back and the floating harbour to Bristol Bridge, taken from the south
- Date:
- 20 Oct 1930
- Location:
- Welsh Back, City Of Bristol
- Reference:
- AA78/06685
- Type:
- Photograph (Negative)
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Description
The photographer’s notes state: ‘Welsh Back, looking north up the Floating Harbour to Bristol Bridge.
Left to right: All Saints' Church, Christ Church's, St Nicholas's Church, and St Mary-le-Port's Church steeples from the centre background. Just below All Saints' can be seen Nos 24 % 23 (Golden Bottle). The houses, going to the right from St Nicholas's, form Bridge Street.'
Noted in red: ‘ Nearly all the Bridge Street houses were more or less destroyed in the 24.Nov.1940, and later air raids, and only two houses on the Floating Harbour side were left after neccessary demolitions had taken place.'
Content
This is part of the Series: PEW01/01 Phillip Edmund Wills Street Collection, Negatives; within the Collection: PEW01 Phillip Edmund Wills Street Collection
Rights
© Historic England Archive
People & Organisations
Photographer: Street, Philip Edmund Wills
Keywords
Floating Harbour, Warehouse, Bridge
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