The lock-up on Bradford on Avon Town Bridge
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Bradford on Avon Museum Trustee, Ivor Slocombe, has welcomed the Prison History group from the Open University to Bradford to show them the lock-up that sits one of the cutwaters of the Town Bridge. They filmed the interior which you can see here, on the Prison History website page (the link opens on a new...
Read MoreOld Photographs: Frome Road
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.The Three Horseshoes pub, at the beginning of Frome Road, in the 1890s. Externally at least, little has changed in more than a century; apart from the transport, the main difference is the loss of the large gas lamp.
A New Museum Publication: The Hall
Bradford on Avon Museum’s publications group has come up with another in our series of booklets about local subjects, in conjunction with Ex Libris Press.
Pamela Slocombe’s booklet, which is in a slightly larger format than the previous ones, is about The Hall, the ancient and beautiful mansion on the eastern side of Bradford. It gives a history of the development of the...
Read MoreExplore Bradford on Avon: Views
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Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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Bradford Town Bridge with Abbey Mill beyond and the terraces of Tory and the hillside in the background.
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Old Photographs: Trowbridge Road
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A view towards the centre of town in about 1905 from outside the Plough public house, whose sign can be seen on the right. Further on can be seen the sign of Milsom’s iron foundry, by this time being operated by Berkley Uncles.
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Read MoreOld Photographs: Bradford in the 1960s
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A small collection of black-and-white photographs which belonged to a former Museum Steward and Treasurer. Structurally little has changed since these were taken, but the cars give the date of the pictures -many of which would be regarded as “classic cars” now.
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Read MoreCanal Quarry, Frome Road
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Canal Quarry had a special significance in the history of science. It was one of the places in the area where the Bradford Clay was found and the fossils that were collected there in the early nineteenth century found their way into collections...
Read MoreThe Hall, Holt Road
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The west front of The Hall, from Conigre Hill
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The Hall, situated on the eastern outskirts of the town, is one of the most important of Bradford on Avon’s buildings.
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Read MoreOld Photographs: Church Street
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Bradford commemorated the death of King Edward VII in 1910 with a parade and a service at the parish church. On the right, the buildings of Church Street Mill are unoccupied and windows have been smashed. They were still at...
Read MoreSt Laurence School Roman Villa
It had long been known that there was significant Roman building in the Budbury area, on the plateau just north of the centre of Bradford. An excavation in 1976, when new houses were being built, found a bath house, so the villa house had to be nearby.
A fragment of plaster that had fallen from the walls of the bath house. Many of these pieces were conserved in a...
Read MoreExplore Bradford: Junction Road
Junction Road was made in the late 19th century to join Frome Road and Trowbridge Road.
The building now known as Fitzmaurice Place was formerly Fitzmaurice Grammar School. The school was founded as the County Technical School, occupying temporary premises in Frome Road until this building opened in 1896. Its main funders, besides the County,...
Read MoreChrist Church graveyard
Christ Church was built in the 1840s to serve the northern fringes of the town.
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... Read MoreHolt Road Cemetery, Bradford
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Holt Road Cemetery was set up by the Bradford Improvement Commissioners in 1856 as a non-denominational burial ground to relieve pressure on those in the town under the Burial Act of 1853. The original area, two mortuary chapels (Anglican and Nonconformist...
Read MoreExplore Bradford: Belcombe
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Newtown continues westwards in the direction of Avoncliff, Turleigh and Winsley as Belcombe Road.
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Wellclose House appears to be a large five-bay...
Read MoreOld Photographs: The Priory
The Priory was a late medieval mansion with later additions at the upper end of Market Street in Bradford on Avon.
The earliest parts were built in the latter part of the 15th century by Thomas Rogers, who was Sargeant-at-Law, a high-ranking legal official. The house would then have consisted of an open hall with wings at each end and a porch opening on to what...
Read MoreSt Margaret’s Street, western side
St Margaret’s Street runs from the southern end of the Town Bridge. It formerly continued on the line that is now called Frome Road, but nowadays it turns off left behind Hall’s Almshouses and other buildings along what was Besoar Street. It takes its name from a now lost medieval St Margaret’s Hospital, which was founded in 1235.
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St Margaret’s Street, eastern side
St Margaret’s Street runs from the southern end of the Town Bridge. It formerly continued on the line that is now called Frome Road, but nowadays it turns off left behind Hall’s Almshouses and other buildings along what was Besoar Street. It takes its name from a now lost medieval St Margaret’s Hospital,...
Read MoreOld Photographs: Street scenes
Views of the town’s streets tend to be from postcards or photographs taken by visitors or those interested in the picturesque. Photographs of the Town Bridge and Saxon Church are most popular of course. Images of the less picturesque parts are rare, but these are the most likely to have changed.
Market Street Silver Street The Shambles Church Street The Town... Read More