Looking across the Broadmead Shopping Centre

The channelled River Avon (the Floating Harbour) flows through the city centre. Most of the central part of the City of Bristol is shown here

The central area of the city of Bristol, South West England, is the area south of the central ring road and north of the Floating Harbour, bordered north by St Pauls and Easton, east by Temple Meads and Redcliffe, and west by Clifton and Canons Marsh. It is contained entirely within the Council ward of Cabot. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1672x2208, 622 KB) Looking across the Broadmead shopping centre, from a static balloon at 500 feet. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1672x2208, 622 KB) Looking across the Broadmead shopping centre, from a static balloon at 500 feet. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1800x1376, 802 KB) The River Avon flows through the centre of Bristol, England. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1800x1376, 802 KB) The River Avon flows through the centre of Bristol, England. ... Bristol (IPA: ) is a city, unitary authority and ceremonial county in South West England, 115 miles (185 km) west of London and between the cities of Bath, Gloucester and the borough of Swindon. ... A beltway (American English), ring road or orbital motorway (British English) is a circumferential highway found around many cities. ... St Augustines Reach and Peros Bridge, during the 2004 Harbour Festival. ... St Pauls Church St Pauls is an inner suburb of Bristol, England, situated just north east of the city centre and west of the M32. ... Part of the Barton Hill estate. ... Bristol Temple Meads is a major railway station in Bristol, England. ... St. ... The crowded Princess Victoria Street lies at the heart of Clifton Village Clifton is an inner suburb of the English port city of Bristol. ... Millennium Square and the At-Bristol planetarium Canons Marsh is an inner city area of Bristol, England, of approximately one square killometre. ... Cabot is an area and Council ward that covers the centre of Bristol. ...

Broadmead

Bristol does not have a dense or organised Central Business District, with shops and offices spread out from Clifton to Temple Meads. Broadmead, however, is the main "high street" shopping district. The current streets and shops were built in the 1950s after bombing in World War II had damaged much of medieval Broadmead. To the southeast of Broadmead, beside the harbour, is Castle Park also created after the bombing of the original buildings, while to the northwest is St James' Park. A Central business district (CBD) or downtown is a commercial heart of a city. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning from the 1st of January, 1950 to the 31st of December, 1959. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom France Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ... The Observatory on Clifton Down. ... The Observatory on Clifton Down. ...

Like most 1950s buildings in Britain, affordable but architecturally uninteresting utilitarian buildings form the bulk of the Broadmead area. In the 1980s some of these were demolished to make way for the Galleries shopping centre, which runs parallel to the main shopping road on a three level covered street. The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... The Mall Galleries is a shopping mall situated in Broadmead within Bristol city centre, in Bristol, UK. It is the citys main in-town shopping mall, and consists of 3 levels, but this is set to change as part of the Bristol regneration plan which started in 2004. ...

Broadmead is undergoing another regeneration, with the shopping area being extended over the central ring road to produce a new shopping centre. This new area had been named Merchants Quarter but in April 2006 this name was abandoned after a campaign claiming the name was offensive because it was the Bristol Merchant Venturers who dealt in the trade of African slaves.

A nearby multi-storey car park and utilitarian tower block, Tollgate House have recently been demolished. Work started in late 2005. On 8 June 2006 workers working on the regeneration of the area discovered an unusual object under the building site and fears of a potential unexploded German bomb from World War II resulted in much of Broadmead having to be evacuated and stores temporarily closed^[1]. The following day it was discovered to be a piece of reinforced concrete^[2]. Tollgate House, completed in 1975, was an 18 floor, 77 metres/252 feet tall office building in the city of Bristol, England. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Harbourside

Just south of Broadmead, the city centre survived the Second World War with much less damage, though post-war planners widened St Augustine's Parade by covering the branch of the harbour that ran through it, making way for the ring road. These planning decisions are beginning to be reversed, for example, the ring road is no longer circular, as the stretch through Queen Square has been closed and returned to its use as a public park. St Augustine's Parade is also becoming less car oriented, as roads have been narrowed, turned into bus lanes or closed altogether. At one point it looked likely that part of St. Augustine's Parade would be dug up to reveal the river below; unfotunately it was decided this would be too expensive and fountains were erected instead. St Augustines Reach and Peros Bridge, during the 2004 Harbour Festival. ...

The harbourside in the city centre has also been regenerated in the 1990s and 2000s, with the refurbishment of warehouses as bars, restaurants, the Watershed Media Centre and the Arnolfini art gallery, as well as the creation of At-Bristol. Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Entrance to Watershed Media Centre in the Harbourside area The Watershed Media Centre opened in a disused warehouse in central Bristol in 1982, and claims to be the United Kingdoms first dedicated media centre. ... The Arnolfini from Peros Bridge. ... At-Bristol is a pioneering public science and technology exploration and education centre in Bristol, England. ...

Gallery

St Augustine's Reach from St Augustine's Parade during the 2004 Harbour festival St Augustines Reach,Bristol Harbour during the festival, by user:Steinsky, Aug 2004. ...	St Augustine's Parade This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ...	Looking across Castle Park in Bristol city centre Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1800x1347, 753 KB) Looking across Castle Park in central Bristol, England, from a tethered passenger balloon at 500 feet. ...	The large roundabout at Old Market Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1800x1246, 836 KB) A major roundabout at Old Market, Bristol, England, photographed from a tethered passenger balloon at 500 feet. ...
The City Centre water-feature in summer Image File history File links Download high resolution version (614x768, 92 KB) Summary I took this with a Fuji digital camera Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...	City Centre entertainment: the Thekla Social ship is a club and restaurant Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1831x1308, 1634 KB) Thekla in 2005, moored at The Grove, East Mud Dock, Bristol, England. ...

References

1. ^ Area closed over suspected bomb, BBC
2. ^ 'Bomb' turns out to be concrete, BBC

External links

• Broadmead Bristol website
• The Future of Broadmead and Merchants Quarter
• Petition to change the name 'Merchants' Quarter
• Bristol City Centre Expansion website