I have a book called 'English City. The Growth and the Future of Bristol' which was published in 1945 by J S Fry & Sons. What makes it of particular interest, I think, is that in addition to a potted history the book outlines the plans for post-war Bristol's development, looking at what was being done elsewhere in Europe and the USA. I don't know Bristol that well and so can't say how much, if any, of those plans came to fruition. It it's interesting anyway. Karen

On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:05:04 +0100, Karen Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a book called 'English City. The Growth and the Future of > Bristol' which was published in 1945 by J S Fry & Sons. What makes it of > particular interest, I think, is that in addition to a potted history > the book outlines the plans for post-war Bristol's development, looking > at what was being done elsewhere in Europe and the USA. I don't know > Bristol that well and so can't say how much, if any, of those plans came > to fruition. It it's interesting anyway. Hi Karen and Listers, It took me a while to locate my copy of this interesting book on my bookshelves. There is a section entitled 'When Bristol rebuilds' with drawings of how Bristol would look in the future. Among my first memories of the city are bomb sites. I can't remember when the bomb sites disappeared as they were always there in my early life, but Ian reckons they were still some bomb sites in the late 1960s when he first became acquainted with Bristol. Josephine