View looking along the east side of Tower Street to Castle Street, taken from the north-west
- Date:
- 24 Oct 1930
- Location:
- Tower Street, City Of Bristol
- Reference:
- AA78/06737
- Type:
- Photograph (Negative)
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Description
The photographer’s notes state: ‘Houses in Tower Street, looking south to Castle Street. The nearest house, at the corner of HArtland Court is no.19. The next house is No. 20. Here is the entrance to a 13th cent. vaulted chamber. Now used as an antique furniture shop. The nearer part of the low modern building, at the corner of Castle Street, is no. 21 and has a hanging sign "The Bristol Castle Sweeteries" and contains an Early English vaulted chamber adjoining that at No. 20. According to Kenneth H. Green (1947) the above two chambers are "a fragment of the gatehouse" to the castle.'
Noted in red: 'No.19 was destroyed in the air raid of Nov. 24. 1940. Nos. 20 and 21 were rebuilt about 1937 (?). They were both gutted in the above raid, and were cleared away, apart from their miraculously spared ancient remains, about 1942.'
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
House, Shop
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