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Bridge Road, BRISTOL, BS8 3PD

Burwalls is now owned by Bristol University. Once a hall of residence, it is now used for Continuing Education events, conferences and other functions. The house is surrounded at the front by large trees including an impressive monkey puzzle. [2018 update: Burwalls was sold in 2010 and is now luxury flats. Historic England describes it as "Orange/red brick with limestone ashlar dressings; stone-coped plain tile roof with carves finials; brick ridge and end stacks with moulded stone cornicing to diagonally-set flues. Jacobethan style." It was built for Joseph Leech (the anonymous "Bristol Church-Goer") in 1872. It was later owned by George Alfred Wills (tobacco gets into everything in Bristol) and then his unmarried daughter Hilda Proctor Wills (who must have rattled in such a big house all on her own). In the Second World War it was the HQ of the Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment and was acquired by Bristol University after the war. Further information at the House & Heritage website https://houseandheritage.org/2017/01/11/burwalls/ ]

The building, not that easy to photograph, also appears in Image, Image and Image In "Jacobethan style", it dates from 1873 with alterations in 1906 http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1248790&searchtype=mapsearch . It is currently for sale "on the instructions of The University of Bristol" http://www.burwallsbristol.co.uk/ .

This looked like moulded terracotta from a distance but in practise it is sculpted brick. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5445903 for location.

A large mansion built in 1873 by Foster and Wood on a prominent site overlooking Bristol and the River Avon. This is the rear of the house, on Bridge Road. Later a college, it has now been converted to apartments. Listed Grade II. The house takes its name from Burgh Walls Camp, an Iron Age hill fort within which it stands.

Viewed across Bridge Road on the North Somerset side of the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Burwalls House is a mansion built in the ornate Jacobethan style in 1872 for the owner of the Bristol Times newspaper, Joseph Leech. It was designed by architects Foster and Wood, a Bristol firm responsible for many buildings in the city in the mid to late 19th century, including Bristol Grammar School and the former Grand Hotel, Broad Street. Later, Burwalls was the home for decades of the Wills tobacco family. It was most recently owned by Bristol University, which used the property for academic conferences. The property was for sale at the date of this view.

Situated in a magnificent position overlooking Bristol this house was built for Joseph Leech, local newspaper baron, in 1872. He died there in 1893 and subsequently George Wills bought the house. George extended the house and his land holdings in the area and in 1908 donated Leigh Woods including Nightingale Valley and Burwalls Wood to the National Trust. The University bought it from the Trustees of his estate in 1948. It operated as a Hall of Residence until 1973 when it became the University’s Conference Centre. It has subsequently been sold and is now apartments. https://houseandheritage.org/2017/01/11/burwalls/

A building owned by the University of Bristol and a Highways Maintenance Depot situated opposite each other on the B3129 within a stone's throw of the Leigh Woods pier of the suspension bridge. Photograph taken from North Road.

It is an increasingly uncommon sight - a telephone box, with a phone still in it. Perhaps its location near the Clifton Suspension Bridge is keeping it there, as the bridge has been the location for many people to consider suicide in the past. Meanwhile, an Italian flag presages the victory by the team in the delayed Euro Championships. At the time of shot, they were about to beat Austria in the first knock-out matches.

The ornate 'back door' of Burwalls, complete with barley-twist columns and broken pediment, which leads on to the garden terrace. Clifton Suspension Bridge is visible in the background.