St Mary Redcliffe Area - BS1

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St Mary Redcliffe Area - BS1

Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 28 Jul 2012

This is Colston Parade looking towards Redcliffe Hill. Whilst the boundary fence of St Mary Redcliffe Church can be seen on the right, two properties of note can be picked out on the left-hand side. Firstly, Fry's House of Mercy, the two-storey building in the foreground, was built and endowed in 1784 by William Fry, a local distiller as an almshouse to provide lodging and maintenance for 12 widows. Then secondly, the fourth bay-windowed house is Samuel Plimsoll's birth place (1824). This was the man who devised the Plimsoll line marking system for ensuring that ships were not (and are still not) overloaded and sent to sea. The requirement for a Plimsoll line to be correctly painted onto the side of a ship near its water line was made compulsory in 1876 by the Merchant Shipping Act.

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