Croft End Road Whitehall Bristol

1906 view of Benny Frecke's Farm Croft's End Road, Whitehall, St George. The road takes its name from fields that once stood here. Crofts End (also known as Clay Hill) is a suburb of Bristol. It is an industrialised area, with many small Victorian houses, built when this area was a coal mining community.

Over many years, the Market Gardens became housing, White's Brick Works became Somers Wood Yard (now an industrial pallet site) - where many older people will remember going as children to collect a sack or trolley full of firewood - and Deep Pit Colliery became industrial estates. When Deep Pit closed, men were having to walk underground as far as Frenchay, to reach the coal face!

Crofts End House, located at the junction of Plummer's Hill and Whitehall Avenue, still exists, but no longer as a single dwelling. It has been refurbished and is now part of a housing association development. Currently the area is undergoing more change as the majority of 'prefabs' (built by American Service-men as post war housing) in the locality have been demolished. These had large gardens surrounding each property and so current planning applications will replace these with many more mixed style, more cost effective housing.

The old, redundant Civil Defence building on the junction of Crofts End Road and Brook Road was demolished and housing association flats were built on the site, now named "Craftes Court"

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