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Article: What are cities for?(Bristol on the Eve of the Millennium, part 2)(Bristol, England)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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At the entrance to Castle Park in the centre of Bristol, there is a small slate monument. On it has been carved a short poem which describes the river as a tongue which licks 'the crumbs of history. Technically speaking, the waterway running a few yards away is not really a river, it is one of the artificial water courses dug to extend the city docks, but the 'crumbs of history' are certainly in evidence both within the park itself with its few sparse castle ruins and along the old quaysides which stretch westwards towards Baltic Wharf and Hotwells.
On Welsh Back, for instance, close to the Bristol Bridge, stands the Llandoger Trow, a pub built in 1664 and ...