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340:, where the larger sites required by the bigger retailers could be accommodated. Wine Street was widened in 1956, and new buildings were erected on the north side of the street. Plans for the area to the south of Wine Street to become a new Civic Centre, including a city museum and art gallery, were eroded by the leasing of the Bank of England and the Norwich Union sites and then dropped on the grounds of cost. Finally, it was decided to create a 'really splendid' park.
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several times a week with lavish displays of shawls and bolts of fabric. Thomas Jones, whose department store started in Wine Street in 1843, was considered outrageous for selling not just drapery, but anything that would make a profit. His business grew into High Street and Mary le Port Street, and
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Wine Street was for centuries an important shopping street but, following wartime destruction and the decision to move
Bristol's main shopping area to Broadmead, it now contains little notable architecture and acts as barrier between the Old City and Castle Park. Bristol City Council are now seeking
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to
Bristol, describes Wine Street as 'perhaps the saddest post-Blitz transformation'. He is dismissive of the buildings on the north side, berating the Prudential Building's 'dull stripped classicism' and describing the Vintry Building and Southey House as 'singularly unimaginative'. He is scornful
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At the turn of the 20th century, Wine Street still formed part of
Bristol's chief shopping centre and contained many of Bristol's most exclusive shops and department stores. In 1915 the globes and lanterns of its street lamps were painted blue to dim their light as an air raid precaution; in the
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was built in the middle of Wine Street. Shown on
Millerd's Map of 1671, this was 18 feet (5.5 m) wide by 80 feet (24 m) long. It left only a narrow passageway on either side for those who wished to go along the street, and was demolished in 1727. Eventually a Cheese Market was erected
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It was a commercial street from its earliest days: in 1286, Thomas de
Westone and his wife Roysia took out a lease on two shops there for thirty years 'at a poetical rent of a rose at the feast of St John the Baptist yearly'. By the 14th century, the four cross streets and Bristol Bridge were a
379:. This would include reducing the width of Wine Street to more closely resemble its historic proportions. The redevelopment of this area 'offer perhaps the greatest potential of any site in the city to demonstrate the ambition of Bristol and to realise a connected and coherent historic core'.
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Wine Street had for many centuries been an important shopping area, and a key part of
Bristol's pre-war shopping axis which ran from Queens Road and Park Street, through St Nicholas Market, Wine Street and Castle Street and onwards to Old Market Street and Stapleton Road; nonetheless post-war
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event
Bristol suffered no aerial attacks during the First World War. Things were very different 25 years later, however: almost all buildings on Wine Street were destroyed or damaged beyond repair by aerial bombing on 24 November 1940, including the landmark
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By the 1820s, it seems the drapers of Wine Street were becoming complacent: William Ablett came from London to manage a shop here and wrote that 'trade was conducted in a droning sort of way', and shocked the local traders by his new-fangled ideas about
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The north side of Wine Street now has just three buildings: The
Prudential Building, now let out as office suites; across The Pithay, the Vintry Building which also offers rental office suites; and Southey House, now a block of 38 flats.
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from 1813 to 1843, was born on Wine Street in 1774; his father, also named Robert
Southey, was a linen draper. Southey is commemorated by post-war Southey House, though Southey's birthplace was actually at the other end of the street.
276:, his wife and servants came to the Horse Shoe Inn on Wine Street for a day in 1668, and described Bristol as 'in every way another London', though he noted that there were 'no carts, it generally stands on vaults, only dog-carts'.
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331:...looking up Clare Street, I was appalled at the view of Wine Street. I could see All Saints Church intact, but beyond the site of the old High Cross all detail was lost in one vast sheet of orange flame.
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of the Bank of
England building on the south side, 'merely occupying the land, with bleak fenestration and a puny entrance', its 'weak' extension 'weakly set back over a parking access ramp'.
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when it was a walled mediaeval town. From this crossroads Wine Street runs along a level ridge approximately 175m north-eastwards to the top of Union Street.
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297:, who went on to make a fortune in bookselling and publishing, was born on Wine Street in 1742; his father, also Thomas Cadell, was a bookseller.
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344:, Neville Conder and Partners produced a plan for this, but in the end the Parks Department laid out their own 'emasculated' version of the
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at the other; the other three cross streets are also shown, each ending at their own gate in the city wall. The name
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Robert Ricart's map of Bristol in 1479. Wine Street is shown running north-east from the High Cross (Alta Crux)
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which stood on the corner of Wine Street and High Street. An eyewitness described the scene:
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incorporated the Guard House, where soldiers had once been billeted during the
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of 1479, one of the first English town plans, shows Wine Street with the
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Wine Street is within the Old City and Queen Square Conservation Area.
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is seeking redevelopment of the area south of Wine Street and around
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on Wine Street. There is, however, one unlisted building of merit:
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1128:"Bristol Residential Development Survey Report 2017 Schedules"
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1066:. Bristol Civic Society and The Redcliffe Press. p. 82.
539:. City of Bristol Museums and Art Gallery. pp. 16–17.
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Bank of England building, with mediaeval crossroads beyond
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planners decided to move Bristol's main shopping area to
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593:"Plan of Bristol, from Ricart's calendar"
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272:drapers were to be found on Wine Street.
205:to repair this by redeveloping the area.
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279:In the early 17th century an open-sided
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966:. Redcliffe Press Limited. p. 49.
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537:Mary-le-Port Bristol Excavations 1962/3
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779:Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture
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571:Bristol City Council City Design Group
249:, the prime site, was the location of
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1156:Pevsner Architectural Guides: Bristol
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1062:Priest, Gordon; Cobb, Pamela (1980).
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1037:Winstone, Reece (1980). "plate 60".
887:Winstone, Reece (1984). "Plate 18".
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837:Winstone, Reece (1979). "Plate 43".
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535:Watts, Lorna; Rahtz, Philip (1985).
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962:Besley, James; Reid, Helen (1990).
722:"Millerd's 'The Citty of Bristoll'"
611:
385:
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1014:Replanning the blitzed city centre
726:Bristol Museums Galleries Archives
650:. Reece Winstone. pp. 53–54.
14:
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1159:. Yale University Press. p.
245:clearly defined shopping centre:
237:is thought to be a corruption of
622:. Broadcast Books. p. 319.
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59:Location within Central Bristol
991:. Reece Winstone. p. 22.
916:. Reece Winstone. p. 56.
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700:. Reece Winstone. p. 39.
675:. Redcliffe Press. p. 7.
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824:UK public library membership
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1185:"Bristol Central Area Plan"
1039:Bristol as it was 1950-1953
889:Bristol as it Was 1879-1874
839:Bristol as it Was 1928-1933
620:The Street Names of Bristol
478:Wine Street, Bristol (1872)
416:Unlisted building of merit
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362:Pevsner Architectural Guide
16:Major street in Bristol, UK
10:
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1012:Hasegawa, Junichi (1992).
937:David J. Eveleigh (1999).
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1194:. 2015. pp. 60–61
1153:Foyle, Andrew (2004).
941:. Sutton. p. 34.
599:. Bristol City Council
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1064:The Fight for Bristol
422:Prudential Buildings
360:Andrew Foyle, in his
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1192:Bristol City Council
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989:Bristol in the 1940s
939:A Century of Bristol
862:Reid, Helen (1987).
776:Groom, Nick (2016).
671:Reid, Helen (1987).
573:. 2018. pp. 4–6
369:Bristol City Council
72:Bristol City Council
22:Wine Street, Bristol
373:Mary le Port Street
289:Mary le Port Street
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1263:History of Bristol
1258:Streets in Bristol
1134:. 2017. p. 26
1041:. Reece Winstone.
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191:Bristol High Cross
121:51.4554°N 2.5917°W
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1103:"Vintry Building"
914:Bristol's History
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520:References
227:High Cross
109:51°27′19″N
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255:mercers
231:Newgate
209:History
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