Waiting in vain
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Waiting in vain by Neil Owen as part of the Geograph project.
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Waiting in vain
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 27 Jan 2012
This is the Palace Hotel, previously the Gin Palace, and before that the Station Hotel. It was built speculatively in 1869 for the booming railway passenger trade brought locally by Bristol's new terminus. Sadly, the station was instead built at Temple Meads and so this ornate Victorian 'waiting room' never made that much money. Currently its owners have maintained the many decorative and elaborate features, especially the upper bar floor - which is actually parallel with the slope of the road outside! See Image] for the two supporting figures holding the roof up, and Image] for the degree of the slope.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.456522
Longitude
-2.57997