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BRISTOL
Corn Street, Bristol (Jones & Co.,
London, 1829)
View in Corn Street from Wine Street at the
intersection with High Street and Broad Street. On the
left hand side are the Castle Bank (later known as the
Dutch House), All Saints Church and the Exchange. On the
right hand side are the Council House and (at the
blocked Small Street) the Church of St Werburgh (removed
in 1878). |
Broad Street, Bristol, Engraving by
William Henry Bartlett (Longman & Co., London 1829)
View in Broad Street towards High Street. On the
left hand side are Christ Church and, on the corner of
Wine Street and High Street, the Castle Bank (the Dutch
House). It was in Christ Church that John
Davies Mereweather was baptized on 3 October 1816.
His siblings, Samuel and Ann, had both been baptized in
the same church on 26 January 1801. |
Small Street,
Bristol, Postcard dated 1904
The shop of Charles James Hill, hosier, was situated on
the east side of Small Street, near Corn Street. |
Central Bristol. Part of a map in Civitates
Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, c. 1600
3 = Christ
Church (rebuilt 1787-1790)
7 = St Werburgh (dismantled in 1878), in Corn Street
Bristol By J. Bartholomew, FRGS (A.
Fullarton & Co., London & Edinburgh), c. 1875
See below for a large-scale section of the map.
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Small Street is marked
S,
and Tottenham
Place is marked
T.
In the early 19th century, the Mereweather
family's combined house and shop stood on the corner of
Small Street and Corn Street.
Around 1840, John Mereweather, father of John Davies
Mereweather, acquired a town-house at 2
Tottenham Place in Clifton, and, together with
his daughter Ann, moved there from central Bristol.
The four-floor-house, set in a Georgian terrace,
commanded splendid views of
Brandon Hill, the Cumberland basin and the Somerset
hills. Ann inherited the house in
1845, and after her death in 1875, it was passed on to John
Davies Mereweather, her half-brother.By the mid-20th
century Mereweather's house had come into the possession
of the University of Bristol. In fact, 2, 3 and 4 Tottenham
Place all now serve as annexes to Manor Hall,
one of the University's undergraduate halls of
residence. The houses have been converted for use as
student accommodation. |
View of Bristol from Clifton, Engraving
by J. Skelton, c. 1830
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