Friday, 18 April 2008

tunnels and catacombes under Bristol

I found a sketch of the layout of some medieval water conduits under Bristol which appears to show that there may be tunnels either under or very close to under our offices.

The Thistle Hotel may well have access to the Broad Street conduit, but how far it goes we don't know yet. If intact, we could probably get all the way to Colston Hall and possibly up Park Street using the underground network.

How cool is that?!

1 comments:

Jaya said...

records seem to tell us that St John's Conduit silted up since the war;

http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1009375

I think they're referring to the fountain more than anything but I could be wrong.