A photograph of a negative showing the facade of the bombed out Fry's House of Mercy from the north-west, and with 1 to 5 Colston Parade visible along the street

Date:: Sep 1942

Location:: Fry's House Of Mercy, Colston Parade, City Of Bristol

Reference:: OP21134

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Description

The almshouse was founded in 1778 and was completed in 1784. It destroyed during an air raid on 24th November 1940. The interior of the building was partly rebuilt behind the facade after 1945.

P. E. W. Street has produced this print by photographing the negative of a photograph taken by R Wills.

Content

This is part of the Series: PEW01/03 Phillip Edmund Wills Street Collection, Prints; within the Collection: PEW01 Phillip Edmund Wills Street Collection

Rights

People & Organisations

Donor: Street, Philip Edmund Wills

Photographer: Wills, Reginald Frank

Keywords

Georgian Almshouse