Retired professional engineers' club - Bristol. Stockbroker and Entrepreneur Sir George White 1854-1916. Bristol tramways Co. 1874 / electrification 1895. Bristol Aeroplane Company 1910. Bristol Commercial Vehicles 1912.

Anchor Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Dame Eva Turner 1892-1990 opera singer attended St Anne's School 1901-1906

St Annes School, Bloomfield Road, St Annes, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Coal Merchant and Politician Samuel Plimsoll 1824-1898. Sloping Coal Chute 1859. Kings Cross Coal Depot 1866. Plimsoll Line 1875.

Anchor Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Samuel Plimsoll
(1824-1898) inventor of the Uniform Loading Line (The Plimsoll Line)

Sir Henry Irving, actor, lived here.

Picton Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Sir Henry Irving
(1838-1905) actor

Mary Renault (Eileen Mary Challans) 1905-1983 Novelist attended this school 1920-1925

College Road, Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom

Empress Eugenie de Montijo (1826-1920) wife of Napoleon III attended school here in 1836

2 Royal York Crescent, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Eugenie de Montijo
(1826-1920) Empress

E. H. Young 1880-1946 novelist lived here 1907-18

2 Saville Place, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) poet lived here 1836-37

Penrose Cottage, Harley Place, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Walter Savage Landor
(1775-1864) poet

Site of Newgate Jail Francis Greenway - Father of Australian Architecture imprisoned here in 1812. Richard Savage - Poet & Playwright died here in 1743

Broadweir, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Francis Howard Greenway
(1777-1837) architect

Newgate Jail, Bristol
gaol

Richard Savage
(1697-1743) poet

Gertrude Hermes b. 1901 wood engraver & sculptor died here 1983

5 Sion Hill, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Eric Ball OBE 1903-1989 salvationist and composer - dedicated to God and worshipped here as a child, `The Beethoven of Brass'

Salvation Army Hall, Two Mile Hill Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #044

Aardman Animations founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton [full inscription unknown]

, Bristol, United Kingdom

Ada Vachell 1866-1923 champion of poor and disabled people and founder in 1895 of the 'Guild of the Handicapped' lived here from 1910-1923

Foley Cottage, 130 Hampton Rd, Redland, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Sir George Oatley (1863-1950) Architect (designed Wills Building, Bristol Baptist College, Wills Hall), lived here (1902-34)

Bishops House, Clifton Hill, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Victoria Hughes 1897-1978 who befriended and cared for prostitutes when she worked here as a lavatory attendant from 1929-1962

Public toilets on the Downs, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Ronald Russell 1910-1994 Peggy Ann Wood 1912-1998 ran the Rapier Players repertory company here at the Little Theatre continuously from 1935-1963

Colston Hall, Colston Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

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In Memory Of Mr. S. C. Smith-Cox Chairman 1977-1991

Newmarket Avenue, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Easton Time Signs Trail #01i

Ruby Helder 1890-1938 "The Lady Tenor" and International Opera singer born nearby in Brooklyn Terrace and raised in the Glasshouse Hotel, Lawrence Hill died Los Angeles, USA

Flats at southern end of Easton Road, Easton, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Ruby Helder
(1890-1938) internationally famous tenor singer

Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #043

Tivoli Music Hall where first moving pictures in Bristol were shown June 1896 [full inscription unknown]

Broadmead Shopping Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom

Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #052

Arnolfini Centre [full inscription unknown]

Arnolfini Centre, Narrow Quay, Bristol, United Kingdom

Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #040

Peter Nichols, Charles Wood, Deborah Kerr, Brenda Fricker, W. G. Homer and other Bristolians [full inscription unknown]

Council House, College Green, Bristol, United Kingdom

Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #041

Queen's Picture House first purpose-built cinema in Bristol 1910 [full inscription unknown]

Castle Park, Bristol, United Kingdom

Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #047

Old Vic Theatre School. Daniel Day Lewis, Miranda Richardson and Peter O' Toole [full inscription unknown]

Old Vic Theatre School, 1-2 Downside Road, Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom

Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #048

The Picture House run by the Grace family 1919-1959 [full inscription unknown]

57 High Street, Thornbury, Bristol, United Kingdom

Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #049

The Watershed Media Centre established 1982 [full inscription unknown]

The Watershed, Bristol, United Kingdom

Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #039

William Friese-Greene 1855-1921 was educated on this site [full inscription unknown]

Queen Elizabeth II Theatre, Bristol, United Kingdom

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William Friese-Greene
(1855-1921) cinematograph pioneer

Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #042

J. Lee Thompson screenwriter and director of many films including Guns of Navarone and Yield to the Night born here August 1914 [full inscription unknown]

3 Westbury Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #051

ABC Cinema the oldest working cinema in Bristol [full inscription unknown]

ABC Cinema, Whiteladies Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

Rt Rev. Dr Mervyn Stockwood Bishop of Southwark 1959-1980 born 1913, died 1995 As a Christian he inspired generosity. As a leader he fought for tolerance. Vicar of this parish from 1941 to 1955

Corner of Church Road/Cowper Street, Redfield, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) artist and poet was born at 5 Adelaide Place

25 Garamound House, Clarence Road, Redcliffe, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Isaac Rosenberg
(1890-1918) poet

Guy Broadwith Tordoff 1908-1990 teacher of Esperanto, pacifist and committed Quaker who travelled widely in Eastern Europe to promote peace through better communication Lived here from 1923-1988

82 Pendennis Park, Brislington, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Easton Time Signs Trail #1g

Ben Tillett 1861-1943 President of TUC and MP Born in Easton, Bristol in 1860. Founded the first unions for unskilled workers and a leader of the Great London Dock Strike of 1889. He went on to be a founder member of the Labour Party and the Daily Herald Newspaper.

8 Combefactory Lane, (upper Bannerman Road), Easton, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Ben Tillett MP
(1861-1943) President of TUC

The Gaiety Cinema 1933-2000 On this site stood the Gaiety Cinema, the last family owned cinema in Bristol which showed films to an estimated eight million people

Corner of Crossways Rd and Wells Rd, Knowle, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Sir Robert Stephens (1931-1995) early star of the National Theatre, London stage and screen actor lived here from 1931 to 1939

34 Priory Rd, Shirehampton, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Frank Norman (1930-1980) author and playwright was born here

151 Whiteladies Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Michael Redgrave (1908-1985) actor and film star

4 Horfield Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Michael Redgrave
(1908-1985) actor

Sarah Guppy 1770-1852 inventor lived here 1841-52

9 Richmond Hill, Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Eliza Walker Dunbar (1845-1925) pioneer woman doctor lived here 1883-1925

9 Oakfield Road, Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Annie Kenney 1879-1930 leading suffragette

23 Gordon Road, Clifton, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Annie Kenney
(1879-1930) Suffragette

Edward William Godwin 1833-1886 Bristol born architect, furniture and fabric designer responsible for the building of the Carriageworks, Stokes Croft, Wesbury-on-Trym village hall and restoration of St Mary Redcliffe Church lived here from 1862-1865

21 Portland Square, St Paul's, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Edward William Godwin
(1833-1886) furniture and fabric designer