Reusing the Church Army hostel
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Reusing the Church Army hostel
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 11 Oct 2022
A new brick building on King Square and Jamaica Street is the old Church Army hostel, now run by the Riverside organisation. The C.A. opened this place for the homeless in 1954 - see Image] for a foundation stone at this corner. Riverside was originally the Liverpool Improved Houses, a help group founded in 1928 and which has successively been amalgamated and gathered other local housing groups. It now runs this hostel in Bristol following a major refurishment in the mid 2010s. The site was previously the Coe, Church and McPherson Boot and Shoe factory, a ladies bootmaker for about a century.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.461587
Longitude
-2.591981