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The Changing Face of Bristol over the
past 100 years including 3000 free to
view photographs on-line
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Reflections of a Bygone Age
This set contains old black & white
photographs of the working life of the
city of Bristol.
In 1933 J.B. Priestly found Bristol a
lively, bustling city, 'earning its
living and spending its own money ..
achieving a new posperity by selling us
Gold Flake and Fry's chocolate and soap
and clothes and a hundred other things'.
In and around Bristol a number of
modern industries have developed,
including sugar refining, tobacco
processing, cocoa and chocolate making,
wine bottling, and the making of fine
glass, porcelain, and pottery.
Aircraft are designed and constructed
at Filton, just outside Bristol, where
the British-French Concorde supersonic
airliner was built. BRISTOL GLASS: It is
certain that glass was made in Bristol,
England, in the 17th century but all
records of this early glass have
disappeared. However, in 1760 there were
fifteen glass factories in Bristol, and
the influence of Bristol glass-makers
was far reaching. White and colored
glass, also cut glass, were produced at
Bristol and the list of objects made
comprises nearly all the pieces that
could be made of glass. Glassmaking was
also an important industry in Bristol
during the eighteenth century at the
start of which the city had the largest
concentration of glasshouses outside
London.
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items are from between 15 Nov 2007 & 11 Dec 2009.