Bristol as our ancestors saw it, c.1853. Continuing our route towards STOKE'S CROFT, we leave on our right another new church, dedicated to ST. ANDREW, in Montpellier, a populous district, built and opened for public worship in 1845. This district is taken out of Horfield and the parish of St. Paul. In Stoke's Croft, the BAPTIST COLLEGE attracts our attention. It was established in 1770, for the education of pious young men for the exercise of the Christian ministry in the Baptist denomination. The principal is the minister of the Broadmead Meeting, as elsewhere stated. The library of this academy is extensive, and contains every production of importance upon subjects of theology. In the museum are many objects of great curiosity, particularly a collection of Hindoo idols, received at different times from their missionaries in India. Respectable applications to view this establishment will not be refused. There is a UNITARIAN ALMSHOUSE and CHARITY SCHOOL, established in the Croft in 1726. The Almshouse contains fifteen women and one man, to whom various sums have been left by different individuals. The School number forty boys, who are clothed and taught reading, writing, and arithmetic. The building forms three sides of a quadrangle, the centre is the School, and the side wings form the Almshouse. -- Josephine Jeremiah http://www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com