Bristol as our ancestors saw it, c. 1853. We now return where we entered Christmas Street, and proceed on the left through Nelson Street, which is occupied by Messrs. BUDGETTS, and other large wholesale warehouses, till we come to the BRISTOL DIOCESAN SCHOOL for boys and girls. Leaving the BRIDEWELL and CENTRAL POLICE STATION in Bridewell Street on the left, we enter Broadmead, and pass the BAPTIST CHAPEL, nearly opposite Union Street. The original structure was formed about 1671, but the present was built about the beginning of the 18th century. The chief pastor must understand Hebrew and Greek, and is the principal of the STOKE's CROFT BAPTIST ACADEMY. Passing the entrance to the LOWER ARCADE, as well as the GREYHOUND COMMERCIAL AND FAMILY HOTEL on the opposite side of the street, (adjoining to the Hotel are the BROADMEAD ROOMS, where public meetings are frequently held, &c. &c.) we notice the WELSH CALVINISTIC METHODIST CHAPEL. Turning the corner on the left we enter Old King Street, where are two Dissenting Chapels. The one on the right is a BAPTIST CHAPEL, the congregation from the Pithay, removing here in 1815; and the other is the EBENEZER METHODIST CHAPEL, erected in 1795, when the Large Room, originally built under the auspices of the Rev. John Wesley in Broadmead, was abandoned. Walking into the Horse Fair on the left we enter the UPPER ARCADE, that extends into St. James's Barton, and which, with the Lower, were opened in June, 1825, by three spirited individuals, for the accommodation of the inhabitants of St. Paul's and Kingsdown, as affording a better communication with the centre of the City. In ST. JAMES' BARTON BENEVOLENT SCHOOL there are no less than three hundred children, who are daily taught reading, writing, &c., and some of them are clothed. -- Josephine Jeremiah http://www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com