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Bristol - St. George (1)

This page was started because of an enquiry by Bryan Bignell. In February 2005, Bryan emailed me asking if I knew anything about Bell Hill Road, St. George and also if anyone knew anything of old apprentices from Strachan and Henshaw. In reply to the first enquiry I found the following photograph...

Bell Hill Rd., St. George
Bell Hill Rd. is left, Two Mile Hill Rd. is right.
The shop sold fish and vegetables, but in the photo is already boarded up.
The houses were all demolished to make way for newer ones.
(from "Bristol As It Was 1960-1962", Reece Winstone, 1981, plate 180)

Bryan very kindly emailed back with some information about the photograph. He wrote...

The shop with the awing out, was Harris's the bacon and cooked meat shop, above just on the edge of the photo is Hewitts the grocers. My Grandparents house was at 174 Bell Hill opposite the boarded up shop. In time, around 1912 to 1920, it was a shop selling animal feedstuff etc. My Grandparents surname was Perrett and grandpa Perrett was the gardener for Doctor Foss and his family in the large house that used to be called Summerfield House on the Hanham road. The lane next to the boarded shop led to the football pitch where St. George's team played. The second cottage in, facing, was the home of the Austin sisters. Opposite Harris's shop was Swan Lane on the corner of which was a Coal merchant, but all this was when I was a lad in the 30's. My home was about 50 yards up Two Mile Hill Rd. on the opposite side, at no. 18.

Later that month, Bryan sent more photographs and so this page was started. I'm indebted to Bryan for allowing his photographs to be used on these pages.