On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:40:47 -0000, liverpud <liverpud-49@rogers.com> wrote: > Took a bus up to the Zoo in Clifton, walked over and across the Clifton > Suspension Bridge, walked toTemple Church, over to P&J Church, along the > waterfront, up and down the Christmas steps etc. Oh, Edna, I am sure you are making some far-away list members wish that they could be making the same excursions. Ah, Christmas Steps, one of my childhood haunts because of the stamp shop and joke shop situated there. When I was young climbing these steep steps was no problem. Decades later, the last time I climbed up them I was huffing and puffing as I reached the top. Here's a web page entitled Christmas Steps: Ghosts, myths and fish 'n' chips, which may bring back memories to some listers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2004/07/12/christmas_steps_feature.shtml The following web page has a photograph of Christmas Steps as it was c.1950: http://www.francisfrith.com/search/england/avon/bristol/photos/bristol_B212193.htm Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com

Great to see that the excellent fish and chip shop at the bottom of Christmas Steps was still there in 2008 (when the website was last updated). Adrian O Beckenham, Kent ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 3:34 PM Subject: [B&S] Christmas Steps, Bristol (was The Grand Thistle, Broad St.) > On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:40:47 -0000, liverpud <liverpud-49@rogers.com> > wrote: > >> Took a bus up to the Zoo in Clifton, walked over and across the Clifton >> Suspension Bridge, walked toTemple Church, over to P&J Church, along the >> waterfront, up and down the Christmas steps etc. > > Oh, Edna, I am sure you are making some far-away list members wish that > they could be making the same excursions. Ah, Christmas Steps, one of my > childhood haunts because of the stamp shop and joke shop situated there. > > When I was young climbing these steep steps was no problem. Decades later, > the last time I climbed up them I was huffing and puffing as I reached the > top. > > Here's a web page entitled Christmas Steps: Ghosts, myths and fish 'n' > chips, which may bring back memories to some listers: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2004/07/12/christmas_steps_feature.shtml > > The following web page has a photograph of Christmas Steps as it was > c.1950: > > http://www.francisfrith.com/search/england/avon/bristol/photos/bristol_B212193.htm > > Josephine > > -- > Josephine Jeremiah > www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >