Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1868 Excerpt: ... they should have mined. And in both sieges the assailants took the works on the north by storm, and failed in trying to take those on the south in the same way. Now, if a man were to row from the Gas "Works on the north side of the Avon up between the Sea-banks and Bedminster, and past the mouth of the Frome and Queen Square on the left, and S. Raphael's on the right, he would see how much of Bristol the river defended, and at last would find himself at Redcliff Back at one end of the line. Hence the old wall ran beside the town-ditch through Port Wall Lane and Back Avon Walk, and over the carved and pillared corridors just discovered. At Redcliff Back, Redcliff Gate and S. Mary's (a strong place), there were 15 guns, commanding the water and Pile Hill. At Temple Gate and Tower JTarratz (the latter stood where the Railway Stations are and was very strong) there were 14 guns: here the wall struck the Avon. Starting once more from the north bank the line ran outside the castle, across Cheese Lane, Bread Street, Unity Street, by the east end of Jacob Street to Trinity Hospital, where Old Market Street meets West Street, through New Street and across the Rope Walk to Lawford's Gate (7 guns) and a bridge over the Frome. It was now drawn through the Meadow, by the lonely City Pest-house in Newfoundland Street, along Pritchard Street, the west side of Portland Square and Cave Street, across "Wilder Street and Stoke's Croft, the Gloucester Road. Here where the Baptist College, the happy owner of a miniature of Cromwell, by Cooper, is now standing, a strong high rampart, watching and shutting the highway, with a gate of timber-bars outside, guarded the bottom of Hillgrove Street. On that steep ascent lay a spur-work, and, as in climbing it you turn to breathe, Jamai...