August 14 – Robert Hayman (died 1629) poet, colonist and Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland; his book, 'Qvodlibets ("What you will"), published in 1628, was the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada.
17 King Street is a historic building situated on King Street in Bristol, England.
These were housed in the Old Library on King Street and were one of the first public displays of fossils in the country.
Walkley was born at Bedminster, Bristol, the only child of Arthur Hickman Walkley, a bookseller, and his wife, Caroline Charlotte, née Bingham.
The former Avon House is an 18-storey building, one of the tallest structures in central Bristol, England.
Opened as a prison in 1779, many of its buildings and the co-located Glenside campus of the University of the West of England (UWE) are Grade II listed.
As of late 2013, Bristol's two largest music venues were Colston Hall and the O2 Academy, which hold 2,000 people each.
The aircraft, neither of which was successfully flown, featured a novel hydroplane undercarriage.
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The Bristol-Burney seaplanes were a pair of experimental seaplanes produced by a collaboration between Lt. Dennistoun Burney and the Bristol and Colonial Aeroplane Company during 1912-14.
It lies along State Route 93 at its intersection with Marietta Road and Township Road 223.
John F. Cordisco, former State Representative and Bucks County Democratic Committee Chairman.
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In 1961, Bristol gained national attention when the song "Bristol Stomp", by The Dovells hit #2 on the Billboard pop chart.
Bristol is located on State Route 10 between Cle Elum and Thorp in Kittitas County, Washington, United States.
Bristol Renaissance Faire, a permanent Renaissance theme-park village in Kenosha County
Bullock's Park was an estate in Bristol, England between College Green and Brandon Hill.
In 1972, Richard B. Salomon retired, and the company was acquired by pharmaceutical company E.R. Squibb, with a market value of $100 million.
Born in or near Bristol, he was third son of Thomas Eden, curate of St. George's, Bristol, who died when Charles was an infant, leaving a widow and young family in poverty.
Charles Underwood (1791 – 5 March 1883, Clifton, Bristol) was a builder in Cheltenham who moved to Bristol, where he became a neo-classical architect.
Just south of the Bristol town line, Route 229 shifts to Middle Street and the road becomes four lanes wide.
In Britain, the carnivals in St Pauls, Bristol and Notting Hill, London and other Caribbean cultural events will usually have curry goat available as well as other regional foods.
Rootham was born in Redland, Bristol to Daniel Wilberforce Rootham and Mary Rootham (née Gimblett Evans).
The origins of the club go back to the late 1980s, in St Pauls and Baptist Mills School in Easton.
Born at Clifton, Bristol, he attended the Universities of London and Paris, obtaining a Bachelier-es-Sciences at the latter in 1894.
The town is the site of the Florenceville Bridge, a covered bridge built in 1907 that is unique in New Brunswick in combining a wooden covered bridge with steel trusses for the central spans over the Saint John River.
In 2006 he was appointed to be a federal monitor in an investigation of Bristol-Myers Squibb, centering on the distribution of the drug Plavix.
The GE/RR Fighter Engine Team was a co-operation between GE Aviation in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States (60% share) and Rolls-Royce in Bristol, United Kingdom and Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (40% share).
Part of the site is now the Imperial Park shopping centre while the listed headquarters building is being converted into the Lakeshore flats.
As of 2012, he was reported living in the city of Bristol, Quebec.
The research to design and build the chip was done in Hewlett-Packard's laboratory in Bristol.
He is thought to have been the architect of Bristol's Old Library on King Street.
James was a partner or collaborator with Thomas in building developments around Park Street and Clifton.
Joanna Fox was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, to James C. Fox and his wife Catherine Bessonett.
He had sent his older sons overseas to run parts of the business; Tileman to the West Indies, and Henry to Bristol in England, while he kept John at home to take charge in New York.
Born in Clifton, Bristol, Le Sage was the son of John Sage and his wife Elizabeth, née Godfrey; Le Sage would adopt the "Le" for his last name during middle age.
Baptised on 28 February 1611 in Bristol, England, Sir John Yeamans was a younger son of John Yeamans, a brewer of Redcliffe, Bristol who died about 1645, and his wife Blanche Germain.
The 13th century St Bartholomew's Hospital which became Bristol Grammar School in the 16th century is situated at the bottom of Christmas Steps.
New Room, Bristol, the first Methodist chapel, built by John Wesley
Norman Tozer (13 July 1934 – 14 July 2010) was a freelance reporter who appeared on Tom Tom, a children's programme produced by the BBC in Bristol.
Old Market, Bristol, a Conservation Area around Old Market Street in Bristol
The bridge is named after Pero, also known as Pero Jones, who lived from around 1753 to 1798, arriving in Bristol probably from the Caribbean Island of Nevis in 1783, as the slave of the merchant John Pinney (1740–1818) at 5 Great George Street.
Megatouch games are developed by Merit Entertainment in Bristol, Pennsylvania.
She founded the 'Whiteladies' convent of St. Mary Magdalene - 'Maudlin' - hence giving Bristol two of its street names.
Portway, Bristol a road in the City of Bristol that follows the River Avon
Redland is a set of free software libraries written in C that provide support for the Resource Description Framework (RDF), created by Dave Beckett (a former resident of Redland, Bristol).
He has also taught at Trinity College in Bristol, England, and from 1999-2000 he was Visiting Professor at Yale University.
Sack Friary, Bristol was a friary in Bristol, England.
It is also a name by which southerly parts of the English city of Bristol is known.
Spike Island, Bristol, an area of the English port city of Bristol, adjoining the city centre
South Bristol Sports Centre, a sports centre in Knowle in the south of the city.
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Bristol has a number of notable professional sports teams and a large number of active amateur sports clubs.
The site was on the banks of the River Frome, which was diverted at around this time to create Bristol Harbour.
The church was built in 1972 to cater for the expansion of Whitchurch Parish in the suburb of south Bristol, England, UK.
McKay went on to play the WOMAD, Bristol and the Jazz Cafe in England and her music received international acclaim and rotation on MTV.
Temwa dates back to 2003 when it was founded by two Bristol girls, Jo Hook and Sophie Elson.
The Tobacco Factory Theatre is located on the first floor of the Tobacco Factory building on the corner of North Street and Raleigh Road, Southville in Bristol, England.
Trinity College, Bristol, a theological college affiliated to the Church of England, located in Stoke Bishop, Bristol.
The London based retailer Selfridges acquired the former Goldbergs site on the corner of Trongate and Candleriggs on which to build a new department store which promised to revamp the area significantly, although progress on this stalled indefinitely after the sale of Selfridges to Canada's Galen Weston in 2003, who intended to revamp Selfridge's flagship Oxford Street store rather than open in Glasgow and other cities such as Newcastle Upon Tyne, Leeds and Bristol.
At the invitation of T. E. Blackwell, C.E., he went to Clifton to assist in some works in the Bristol docks, when he planned a bridge for the Cumberland basin.
Both followed in the footsteps of Walter Frampton(d.1357), thrice Mayor of Bristol, who funded the building of the Church of St John the Baptist, Bristol.
After two semesters at La Salle, Ciancaglini discontinued his college education and earned an associate's degree in electronic technology from Pennco Technical Institute in Bristol, PA.
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Shrewsbury opened the scoring through Stewart Drummond, but two goals from Richard Walker and one from Sammy Igoe gave Bristol Rovers a 3–1 victory.
He continues to live in Bristol and is married to the soprano Janet Price, for whom many of his works were written and dedicated.
The Aggi Crew were a criminal drug gang based in the St Pauls district of Bristol.
AMES Type 86, 10 GHz mobile CW target illuminator radar for Bristol Bloodhound 2 - a.k.a. Blue Anchor, Firelight - Ferranti
In the course of his episcopal ministry in Bristol, Rogerson ordained the first 32 female priests in the Church of England on 12 March 1994 at his cathedral.
For two years he shared a studio in Bristol with Peter Lord and David Sproxton of Aardman Animations and later directed the "Archie the skeleton" commercials for Scotch Videotape and Tina Turner's "Limo-Land - Never in Your Wildest Dreams"; both multi-award winning films for Aardman.
Black Castle Public House is a historic building in Junction Rd, Brislington, Bristol, England.
John Harford, a wealthy Bristol merchant and banker had Blaise Castle House built in 1796–1798, designed by William Paty.
Former students from around the world gathered in Bristol for his funeral at which the eulogy was delivered by former student Stephanie Cole.
At Bristol, Archibald Russell studied a number of variations under the generic Type 198 label.
In 1631, the area was granted as the Pemaquid Patent by the Plymouth Council to Robert Aldsworth and Gyles Elbridge, merchants from Bristol, England.
The Western Region faced particularly stiff competition for its prime inter-city services in the mid to late 1970s from the M4 motorway and it was generally felt within BR that a significant speed and comfort increase on the prime Paddington-Bristol route were necessary.
Spike Island is the narrow strip of land between the Floating Harbour to the north and the tidal New Cut of the River Avon to the south, from the dock entrance to the west to Bathurst Basin in the east.
The first to be shown at the Academy in 1908 was titled, "Finishing touches" and the final in 1962 was painted when she was living at Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.
The Church of St John the Baptist, Bristol is a former Church of England parish church at the lower end of Broad Street Bristol, England.
In those coalfields to the south of the former Wales-Brabant High i.e. the South Wales, Bristol, Somerset, Forest of Dean and concealed Oxfordshire and Kent coalfields, the corresponding group is the South Wales Coal Measures Group.
1909 also saw publication of the first novel written about Bristol Bay, The Silver Horde by Rex Beach, and Cress Hale was assumed to be its inspiration.
Rooks and Geoff Merrick formed the regular central defensive pairing for the 1971–72 season when Bristol City started strongly before finishing in 8th place.
Three years later he returned to the West Country as Chaplain to Clifton College, Bristol.
His other notable fencing achievements include: British Champion, 2013, final 8 at Luxembourg A Grade, 1st Bristol Open 2001, 1st Sussex Open 2001, 3rd Welsh Open 2002 and best young fencer on two occasions during his schooling at Hazelwick School.
Joe Newcombe, Adam Cann and Joel Pearce come from Thornbury, a market town in South Gloucestershire approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of Bristol.
Lady Barrett was born in Henbury in Gloucestershire now part of Bristol, and she was the fourth child of merchant Benjamin Perry.
He subsequently held the positions of Minister for Aviation Supply and Aerospace Minister (1970-2) where he was responsible for the cancellation of the Black Arrow rocketry programme but provided financial assistance to Rolls-Royce (whose Filton, Bristol factory was within his constituency) when it ran into difficulties that hampered its defence commitments.
George McCoy has appeared on television several times, including three episodes of The Big Questions on 20th January 2008 in Leeds, 24th May 2009 in Bristol and 1st April 2012 in Bury as well as the Welsh Panorama programme 'Week In - Week Out' which focussed on adult services in Cardiff.
Geraldine Creedon is a former representative in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 11th Plymouth district, consisting of precincts 1, 2, 4 and 5, of the town of Easton, in the county of Bristol; and precincts A and C of ward 1, precinct A of ward 2, and all precincts of ward 7, of the city of Brockton, in the county of Plymouth.
There is an online catalogue, and the eight UK branches in Crawley, London, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Wadebridge, Birmingham and Milton Keynes also stock hundreds of second hand & one off items.
On April 4, 1975, Josephine Baker celebrated 50 years in show business with a lavish party thrown at Le Bristol; guests included Sophia Loren, Mick Jagger and even Princess Grace of Monaco.
Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).
Other highlights were playing with John Critchinson, the big bands of Dave Stapleton and Andy Hague and performing a great new piece by Keith Tippett in the Colston Hall, Bristol.
A force of cavalry and infantry were deployed to escort Llywelyn and Owain out of Gwynedd via Acton Burnell in Shropshire to Bristol before the end of July 1283.
Eves signed for Newcastle from Bristol towards the end of the 2009/10 season, with the signing being announced the day after Bristol lost to Exeter in the Championship final.
Darren Carr Mangotsfield United, Bristol Rovers, Newport County, Sheffield United, Crewe Alexandra, Chesterfield, Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion.
North Attleborough is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by Elizabeth "Betty" Poirier (R-North Attleborough), since 1999, as part of the Fourteenth Bristol district, which also includes sections of Attleboro and Mansfield.
The AW.169 and Fairey's Delta III design were considered to be the best two contenders taking into account the design of the aircraft, the development risks, the capabilities of the design teams and the manufacturers' workloads - Bristol had not been invited to tender because of the importance of the Bristol 188 high speed research plane they were working on.
She returned to Bristol in 1982, playing Lady India in Anouilh’s Ring Round the Moon.
In the 1960s was purchased by David Peaster, the headmaster of Cotham School in Bristol, and made into a school.
Parts of the movie were also filmed at Lake Compounce Amusement Park in Bristol, Connecticut, and the Olde Blue Bird Inn & Gas Station and adjacent Baseball Field in Easton, CT.
Savage went to Swansea, but he resented bitterly the conditions imposed by his patrons, and removed to Bristol, where he was imprisoned for debt.
Prince Rupert was to bring four thousand horse and two thousand foot to Durdham Down, and the royalists in Bristol, who were estimated at two thousand, were to seize the Frome-gate and admit Rupert's forces.
After devoting himself solely to writing for three years, in 1969 he returned to the pharmaceutical corporate world going to work as a public relations officer for E. R. Squibb & Sons, a post he held until 1975 when he and his wife retired to Surrey.
Traditionally both regiments recruited from Gloucestershire and the surrounding areas including Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, Tewkesbury, The Forest of Dean and from the city of Bristol.
Owned by Network Rail under depot code PM, it is leased to train operator First Great Western, and has been used since their introduction for the maintenance of InterCity 125 trains operating between London Paddington, Bristol and South Wales.
A regular Tuesday night club called The Bristol Chinese R'n'B and Jazz Club was also established which attracted American Blues singers including John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter.
A 1921 American silent film adaptation was directed by Edward Sloman and featured Wyndham Standing as Ashe and May Allison as Bristol.
The film follows them as they retrace the triangle trade starting at Linden Place in Bristol, Rhode Island, the hometown of the DeWolfs, where the family was prominent in the Bristol Fourth of July Parade, local Episcopal Church and other local institutions.
In the Midlands, there was a Ukrainian Catholic priest celebrating Ukrainian-rite services for the Ukrainian faithful in Coventry, as well as in Rugby, Gloucester, Bristol, Birmingham and Cheltenham.
Wampler was again an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1956 to the 85th Congress, and served as vice president and general manager of Wampler Brothers Furniture Company in Bristol, Virginia from 1957 to 1960 and the vice president and general manager of Wampler Carpet Company from 1961 to 1966.
He was a generous patron of the arts in Bristol, particularly concerning the church of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol, "The crown of Bristol architecture".