City - Bristol, England - A Steep, Steep Street Large Clock

Colourized photo from 1866 Original Title: The junction of Steep Street and Trenchard Street Photographer: John Hill Morgan Location: Trenchard St & Steep St. (Colston St ), Bristol, England Located on a winding, steep road, in Bristol, England. This is Steep street and Trenchard. Photographed in 1866, but published as a set of 100 prints in 1891, where they destroyed the negative after. They wanted to show what old Bristol looked like. This location existed in the mediaeval period, when it was the main road from the centre of Bristol to Glouster. It was demolished in 1871, to make space for a flatter safer street, in which they demolished this charming though be it crumbling abode. And renamed Steep Street, with Level Street. Just kidding its called Colston St. The building in front of us, "R Holloway Dealer in Marine Stores", they bought hair. In the old days, the locals would have called this a "rag and bone shop". Which today would mean second hand store. But in those days, second hand meant a real hand, as they would sell old rags and a pile of old bones. Besides playing pirate with them, bones were often used to make knife handles, ornaments, and when the grease was stripped, extracted and was useful to make soap. Below is a blurb about these types of stores from Charles Dickens: 'She had stopped at a shop over which was written KROOK, RAG AND BOTTLE WAREHOUSE. Also, in long thin letters, KROOK, DEALER IN MARINE STORES. In one part of the window was a picture of a red paper mill at which a cart was unloading a quantity of sacks of old rags. In another was the inscription BONES BOUGHT. In another, KITCHEN-STUFF BOUGHT. In another, OLD IRON BOUGHT. In another, WASTE-PAPER BOUGHT. In another, LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S WARDROBES BOUGHT. Everything seemed to be bought and nothing to be sold there. In all parts of the window were quantities of dirty bottles - blacking bottles, medicine bottles, ginger-beer and soda-water bottles, pickle bottles, wine bottles, ink bottles.