Bristol, Broadmead c.1953
Photo ref: B212286
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Photo ref: B212286
Photo of Bristol, Broadmead c.1953

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Here we see a mixture of Georgian, Victorian, thirties' style cinema and post-war reconstruction.

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Memories of Bristol, Broadmead c1953

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Bristol, Broadmead c.1953

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This 1953 photo shows Bristol's Horsefair in Broadmead not long before the rebuilding of Broadmead after the blitz of theSecond World War. Broadmead runs between Union Street and Penn Street, and was a part of the regeneration of the city centre following the destruction of the Second World War. Broadmead emerged as the central area for shopping in post-war Bristol. In the late 1990s a large ...see more