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New Kingsley Road, BRISTOL, BS2 0LT

Victorian school, originally Barley Fields High School, and since 1963 the Hannah More Primary. Hannah More (1745-1833) was a teacher and writer; her memorial fund endowed a school in 1835.

A view of the rear of Hannah More Primary School taken from the school’s boundary fence opposite The Barley Mow pub. The faux-Dutch style, ‘stepped’, front elevation on New Kingsley Road is a feature of the older part of the premises. The school is named after Hannah More who was born in Fishponds, Bristol in 1745 and who died in Clifton, Bristol in 1833. She was an evangelical religious writer, a poet, a playwright and a philanthropist who joined other influential individuals of her day in campaigning against the slave trade that Bristol was heavily involved in. The first Hannah More School was built in Old Market, Bristol in the 1840s.

Sweetman Place: 'Walter Jack Studio' (for Barratt)

Hannah More Primary School is named after Hannah More who was born Fishponds, Bristol in 1745 and who died in Clifton, Bristol in 1833. The school was previously known as Barley Fields Junior School. In the C19th there were hemp and flax mills and iron works opposite the school here in Upper Cheese Lane, this road’s previous name. Hannah More was an evangelical Christian writer, a poet, a playwright and a philanthropist who joined other influential individuals of her day in campaigning against the slave trade, in which Bristol was heavily involved. A previous Hannah More School, built in the 1840s, existed in Old Market, Bristol. Temple Meads Railway Station is a 10 minute walk away, behind the photographer.

Sweetman Place

Between Avon Street and Anvil Street.

Straight Street: 1865 example of Byzantine style in Bristol

The former Ebenezer Methodist Church dating from around 1850 is now used as an architectural salvage emporium.

Burials here date from 1762 to 1944. The gravestone inscriptions are in Hebrew script.

This gated-and-locked Jewish cemetery is obliquely opposite the Barley Mow pub. Its establishment in the 1740s makes it the first in Bristol following the return of Jews to England following their expulsion of 1290. The earliest grave is dated 1762 and the most recent one in 1944. Bristol is one of the oldest provincial Jewish communities in the UK with records of a Jewish community dating back to the C12th and C13th. Because of the restrictions on Jews owning land it was leased for a number of years, finally being acquired by the Bristol Jewish Community in 1859. There are approximately 160 graves. The houses in the distance are in Sweetman Place.