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Is a list available of men who worked on its construction & if so Pleas where could one be obtained .
Goldie 36
In what way is this a travel question (see Travel Forum guidelines)?
But no, I would not expect anyone except the company that employed them to keep a list of people who worked on a specific engineering project.
I live in Bristol and I am looking into this for you.
(I guess that sometimes history and travel overlap!!!).
Best wishes,
Martin
It is likely that such a list will only exist as a pay-roll type of document. Most workers were illiterate when the bridge was built, and employment conditions were tenuous to say the least. If you are seeking someone who was 'important' e.g. an on-site architect/ main manager, then you may find useful relevant documents in local archives. If you are simply seeking a worker, you will have to set aside much time to trawl through any documentation which remains (much of which wil be written in rather-difficult-to-read 'copperplate' handwriting).
You will almost certainly have to visit whichever institution holds the main archives (and must first gain permission to do so), and then spend time searching yourself (unless the helpful Bristol VT-er is prepared to put in the time/effort for you).
The National Archives database notes that much bridge documentation from 1830 to the 1950's is held by Bristol University and Bristol Record Office. It might be worthwhile emailing these institutions initially. Links on this page:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/codocs.asp?CR=B10974
Well, here it is, from the people who look after the bridge now!
Martin
In short NO. Construction occurred at intervals between 1831 and 1864. There were long periods when nothing happened. Not all sub-contractors are recorded let alone the labourers who were employed; Victorian labourer was cheap.
I am able to tell you that the consulting engineers who completed the Bridge 1862-64 as a monument to Isambard Kingdom Brunel were John Hawkshaw and William Barlow. The contractors were a company called Cochrane Grove & Co of Wolverhampton (who no longer exist).
Mike Rowland
Manager, Visitor Services
Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust
Tel: 0117 974 4664
www.clifton-suspension-bridge.org.uk
I notice Goldie has not logged in again since posting the question. Shame, after all the work Martin has put in.
it's even nicer if a squirrel welcomes you up there and nearly seems to pose for you... thanks Greebo you didn't take your camera out of its case not to frighten the squirrel and let me take the pic... if I had notice it, I wouldn't have let you fail your pic of it...
Archie Leach, better known as Cary Grant, was born in Bristol. You wouldn't think so - the city council acts as if he were bad news. A plaque inside the Council House commemorates Bristolians associated with the history of the cinema but Cary Grant, perhaps the greatest actor the cinema has ever known, isn't mentioned. He is commemorated by three small plaques around town: at his birthplace at 15 Hughenden Road, Horfield, and at the two schools he attended, Bishop Road Primary and Fairfield High School. He was also due to have a statue erected to his memory at the end of 2001 after a long, hard campaign by his admirers, though if that has appeared I have yet to see it.
This is a red nose car... I also asked what it was: in Italy we have '30 ore per la vita' (30 hours for life) a TV show where famous TV stars once a year in a 30 hours continuos performance raise funds for a good cause. Something similar is broadcast on the English TV with the following addition: if you give money for the good cause, you get a red nose, the one the car has...
Bristol has long been associated with photography and the cinema even if, to its eternal shame, it fails to give due acknowledgement to Cary Grant. The Watershed is an apt facility, incorporating two cinema screens showing films you wouldn't see at mainstream cinemas, darkroom facilities for photographers, exhibition spaces and a very good cafe-bar where you can sit and watch life go by on the harbour.
It's sort of a eat what you can restaurant where you pay a fix price and drink and eat what you want.
It's mainly starter dishes but they are all fantastic!
It's a (in)famous place among students!
Do book if don't want to be left out... Drink "Sangria" and just keep eating what comes to the table.
It's a no choice restaurant but you don't really need to. Wrong, you do have a choice, whether to repeat a dish it or not ;)
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