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Since setting up a search for Hotwells on eBay I've mostly managed to restrain myself from buying much (or in one case, was outbid, luckily for my finances.) However, I couldn't resist a 1902 flyer for a singalong at the Terrett Memorial Hall, which would have stood five minutes' walk from my flat, overlooking Howard's Lock.
I've found out a fair bit about this non-denominational seaman's mission, including tracking down both a Loxton drawing and an aerial photo of it. The main thing that's eluded me, ironically enough, is finding out who Terrett was, so as a Memorial Hall it didn't do a very good job π.
EDIT: Ah! Did a little more digging and found that the Bristol Archives has a Bristol Dock Company document on file called "William Terrett, Esq.; corresp. etc. re proposed erection of a Mission Hall at Cumberland Basin, 1892", so that might be worth a look once the Archives are properly open again. Given that:
Sarah Terrett died suddenly on 25 November 1889, aged 53, after speaking at a meeting of the White Ribbon Army, the temperance organization she had founded in 1878. Following her death many people sent letters of sympathy to her bereaved husband, William. One of these, from the Rev. W. F. James, a minister of the Bible Christians, makes for especially interesting reading. The Bible Christian denomination, to which Sarah and William belonged, was one of the smaller Methodist connexions, and had its heartland in rural Devon, the area where she had grown up. James recalled the hospitality he enjoyed when visiting the Terrettsβ home, Church House, in Bedminster, south Bristol...
...I wonder if William Terrett built the hall in memory of his late wife. They were clearly just the kind of temperance movement people who would've founded a seaman's mission to get people together to have a nice non-alcoholic singsong rather than a night out on the tiles.
Anyway. This walk to grab a coffee from Hopper Coffee in Greville Smyth Park was mostly an excuse to post the leaflet, a few other things I found related to it, and some pictures of how the site looks now. I would suggest that the present day is not an improvement.
This was my random eBay purchase. I had no idea that the Terrett Memorial Hall had ever existed until I saw this leaflet up for sale.
There's some information on the hall on the Places of Worship database; as you can guess from the title of the leaflet it was basically a seaman's mission, with the aim "to promote the social, moral and religious welfare of sailors and provide sleeping accomodation for seamen, also free beds for destitute seafarers"
My favourite random thing on this leaflet is probably that the Surgeon Dentist is called Mr Heal.
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Text Recognition Tags: BE SURE YOU CET THE ROYAL F RASNC DIADEM UR Hire Parebane PIANOS As to ATSS. Bristol of the per Month. BY BEST MAKERS LUWEST PRICS FRACTICAL TEST PRIVES THL BESTIneorponated Seamen and Boatmen's Friend Society. District W. BRUNT & SONS, ST. AUGUSTINE'S, BRISTOL. Pleasant Saturday Evenings Instreinenta Instrunents ORGANS Repatred. Exthanged roR THE Sailors and the People. ANERICAN A ENOISH DENTITRY Prize Medal ARTIFICIAL TEETH. Mr. HEAL, Surgeon Dentist, CHARLES HATCHER, COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHER, 20, BROADMEAD. 25, OLD MAHKEr STREET. BRISTOL. Furnituro Repaired and Upholstered, the t quaty OR TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. CASIL OR IHIRK. a An Metais C Monik s pmaro WET oF NGLANO AND SOUTH WALES A. C. PUDDY & Co. PRRMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY Hosiers and Glovers, SL Staphan's ureat, Bristat he sosh ANNUAL REPORT 3. Dolphie St., BRISTOL Ties, Collars, Braces, Re Men t i anora frebeYBARS Ma FOR DORIDWER AY TER WINTER UNDERWEAR. Parfect-fitting WHITE SHIRTS, in a . e e TERRETT MEMORIAL HALL, Cumberland Basin. HOTWELLS A dm, A Ere JAMES BIGWOOD, ALL SEATS PREE. FISHMONGER, POULTERER, &c. SATURDAY, JANUARY 4th, 1902. BUY THE Bristol Mercury LICENSED DEALER IN VENISON, GAME AND WILD FOWL IMPORTER oF PURE WENHAM LAKE IOE. Baldwin Street, BRISTOS, and Victoria Street, CLIFTON. FOR ALL THE LATEST NEWS. BE SURE YOU CET THE ROYAL F RASNC DIADEM UR Hire Parebane PIANOS As to ATSS. Bristol of the per Month. BY BEST MAKERS LUWEST PRICS FRACTICAL TEST PRIVES THL BESTIneorponated Seamen and Boatmen's Friend Society. District W. BRUNT & SONS, ST. AUGUSTINE'S, BRISTOL. Pleasant Saturday Evenings Instreinenta Instrunents ORGANS Repatred. Exthanged roR THE Sailors and the People. ANERICAN A ENOISH DENTITRY Prize Medal ARTIFICIAL TEETH. Mr. HEAL, Surgeon Dentist, CHARLES HATCHER, COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHER, 20, BROADMEAD. 25, OLD MAHKEr STREET. BRISTOL. Furnituro Repaired and Upholstered, the t quaty OR TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. CASIL OR IHIRK. a An Metais C Monik s pmaro WET oF NGLANO AND SOUTH WALES A. C. PUDDY & Co. PRRMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY Hosiers and Glovers, SL Staphan's ureat, Bristat he sosh ANNUAL REPORT 3. Dolphie St., BRISTOL Ties, Collars, Braces, Re Men t i anora frebeYBARS Ma FOR DORIDWER AY TER WINTER UNDERWEAR. Parfect-fitting WHITE SHIRTS, in a . e e TERRETT MEMORIAL HALL, Cumberland Basin. HOTWELLS A dm, A Ere JAMES BIGWOOD, ALL SEATS PREE. FISHMONGER, POULTERER, &c. SATURDAY, JANUARY 4th, 1902. BUY THE Bristol Mercury LICENSED DEALER IN VENISON, GAME AND WILD FOWL IMPORTER oF PURE WENHAM LAKE IOE. Baldwin Street, BRISTOS, and Victoria Street, CLIFTON. FOR ALL THE LATEST NEWS.
I find the adverts fascinating. My first optician in Bristol was Dunscombe's on St Augustine's Parade, so they were there a long time. They've closed now (or at least moved) but were still there as recently as 2008, I think. Interesting to see gas lighting systems being advertised, too!
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The Loxton Collection, part of Bristol Library's Reference collection, has over 2000 pen and ink drawings that were created by Samuel Loxton in the first decades of the twentieth century for the Bristol Evening Post and Bristol Observer.
Helpfully, many of them have been scanned and posted to Flickr; you can browse more Loxton drawings including this one in the album "Loxton Illustrations: Part 3" (this picture is item #Q1071), and browse more albums of the drawings from the Library's albums page
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I was fairly sure the Terrett Memorial Hall would have faced Entrance Lockβafter all, they'd be wanting to drum up trade from sailors!βand I eventually came across an aerial photo from 1934 on the ever-helpful Bristol City Docks website's Cumberland Basin page that confirmed my hunch.
I haven't had the time to find out when it was demolished, but the whole Cumberland Basin Flyover System (which you can see being built on that web page) had replaced this area by the mid-1960s.
This is photo PBA487 on that page, I think courtesy Bristol Museums Galleries and Archives.
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If the Terrett Memorial Hall were still there, its frontage would be roughly where those boulders are between the curve of railing in the middle of the picture and the flyover up to the Plimsoll Bridge a little further back, facing towards the lock gate you can just see on the other side of the road.
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Here we'd be facing Terrett Hall square on. Crouching at work in the middle of the picture is one of the tireless people who are constantly found sprucing up Cumberland Piazza (or at least trying their best to make it look a little less awful.)
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I went out simply wanting to knock off the very last little unwalked section of Clanage Road, over by Bower Ashton, which has been annoying me for a while as it's quite close by and I've walked the other bits of it several times. So, my plan was to nip over to Greville Smyth Park via a slightly unusual route to wander Clanage Road and tick it off.
Along the way, though, I inevitably got a bit distracted. I took a few photos of Stork House, a grand Hotwell Road building that's recently been done up a bit (I imagine it's student lets, though I'm not sure) and which I found a reference to in a book about the Port Railway and Pier the other week, and also tried to match up a historical photo of Hotwells before the Cumberland Basin Flyover System laid it waste, which included some interesting markers I'll have to do a bit more digging into...
I found this image on Pinterest and as usual for that site it was annoyingly uncredited, but it seems to be from the book Hotwells, Spa to Pantomime, which I've just ordered direct from Bristol Books. Hopefully I'll be able to update the credit a bit when it arrives.
There's quite a lot in here that I didn't know about and will be researching a bit more, especially the Spa Assembly Rooms, which I think later turned into a school before being demolished for the flyover system, and also Anderson's workshop, a last vestige of the figurehead-carving industry.
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