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Bristol, College Green 1887
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Originally, College Green was the burial ground for the Augustinian abbey, founded by Robert Fitzhardinge in 1148, and for a hospital, founded jointly by Maurice Berkeley of Gaunt and his nephew, Robert de Gourney. Bristol also had two hospitals for lepers: St Mary Magdalene's, Brightbow, was for women, while a similar institution for men existed to the east of the town boundary.

An extract from Around Bristol Photographic Memories.

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Memories of Bristol, College Green 1887

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, College Green 1887

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This shows College Green and its grand posh upmarket shops, at a time in the past when parking wasn't a problem. Many famous people lived round the Green over the years including Mary Robinson; actress and mistress of the Prince of Wales, Sam Worrall; the town clerk taken in by the fraudulent Princess Caraboo and involved in the terrible Bristol Bridge massacre, and poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert ...see more