16 Awesome Old Photos Of Bristol Throughout The Years

Old Photos of Bristol

1. Bristol Centre before the fountains

2. The Centre from the roof of the old Bristol Omnibus office in the 1960s

3.  In 1911 with the Frome river still running

4. The centre during the Queen’s coronation in 1953

5. Bristol bombed during WW2 in 1940 – Mary Le Port & Bridge Streets

6. King Street in 1946 (way before the proliferation of craft beer pubs)

7. The Albion Dock before the coloured houses

8. St Nicks Market in the 1960s

9. Bristol Docks in the 1960s – The Grove

10. A demolition in Bedminster in 1988

11. Paddle Steamer heading below the Clifton Suspension Bridge

12. The old Bristol tram on Cheltenham Road in 1937

13. Stokes Croft back when the trams still ran

14. Welsh Back in 1931

15. Whiteladies Road in the 1980s

16. Bedminster during the 1968 Bristol floods

With great thanks to shipscompass and Paul Townsend on Flickr for these photos.

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