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The Pāli Text Society is a text publication society founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pāli texts." Pāli is the language in which the texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism are preserved. The Pāli texts are the oldest collection of Buddhist scriptures preserved in the language in which they were written down. The society first compiled, edited, and published Latin script versions of a large corpus of Pāli literature, including the Pāli Canon, as well as commentarial, exegetical texts, and histories. It publishes translations of many Pāli texts. It also publishes ancillary works including dictionaries, concordances, books for students of Pāli and the Journal of the Pali Text Society.
website: http://www.palitext.com/
The siege of Bristol lasted from the 18th to 26th of October 1326, and saw the city besieged by the forces of Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer during the 1326 Invasion of England. Isabella and Mortimer's forces fought the garrison under Hugh Despenser the Elder for eight days in a siege. They captured the fort after several attacks.
Stapleton Road is a major thoroughfare in the English city of Bristol, running through the districts of Lawrence Hill and Easton. It is known for being very culturally diverse with many esoteric shops. However since the mid 20th century it has gained a reputation for having a high crime rate.
The Second Siege of Bristol of the First English Civil War lasted from 23 August 1645 until 10 September 1645, when the Royalist commander Prince Rupert surrendered the city that he had captured from the Parliamentarians on 26 July 1643. The commander of the Parliamentarian New Model Army forces besieging Bristol was Lord Fairfax.
Temple Quay is an area of mixed-use development in central Bristol, England. The project was initiated by Bristol Development Corporation in 1989, under the name Quay Point until 1995. In that year it was handed over to English Partnerships, under whom development eventually started in 1998. It is bounded by Temple Way (the A4044) to the west and Bristol Temple Meads railway station to the southeast; to the northeast the development was bounded by Bristol Floating Harbour until 2002, when development of Temple Quay North started on the harbour's other side. In 2012 the whole area became part of Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.
The Great Western Cotton Factory was opened on a site in Barton Hill, Bristol in April 1838 (1838-04) to spin and weave cotton into cloth. The cotton processed at the factory was brought from America to the port of Liverpool and carried by water to Bristol. It was the only example of a cotton mill in the south west of England, most other factories being in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire.
Bristol power stations supplied electricity to the City of Bristol and the surrounding area from 1893 to 1959. Temple Back and Avonbank (Feeder Road) power stations were built by the Bristol Corporation which operated them up to the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948.
Bristol Barton Hill TMD is a traction maintenance depot located in Barton Hill, Bristol, England. The depot is located on the Great Western Main Line to the north-east of Bristol Temple Meads station.
National Heritage List for England number: 1202565
National Heritage List for England number: 1437953
Street address: Rosemary Nursery School and Children's Centre, Haviland House, Great Ann Street, St Judes, Bristol, BS2 0DT (from Wikidata)
EDUBase URN: 108898; website: http://www.rosemary.bristol.sch.uk
Street address: Redcliffe Childrens Centre and Maintained Nursery School, Spencer House, Ship Lane, Redcliffe, Bristol, BS1 6RR (from Wikidata)
website: http://www.redcliffechildrenscentre.co.uk/; EDUBase URN: 108904
National Heritage List for England number: 1202490
National Heritage List for England number: 1279549
Street address: Junction 3 Library, Baptist Mills, Easton, Bristol, BS5 0JF (from Wikidata)
National Heritage List for England number: 1291692
National Heritage List for England number: 1202140
National Heritage List for England number: 1203679
Street address: Old Market Street, Bristol, BS2 0HB, England (from Wikidata)
National Heritage List for England number: 1202220
National Heritage List for England number: 1282196
National Heritage List for England number: 1202398
National Heritage List for England number: 1281273
National Heritage List for England number: 1208745
National Heritage List for England number: 1025259
National Heritage List for England number: 1025059
National Heritage List for England number: 1282160
National Heritage List for England number: 1282402
National Heritage List for England number: 1372319
National Heritage List for England number: 1204279
National Heritage List for England number: 1202014
National Heritage List for England number: 1218195
National Heritage List for England number: 1293003
National Heritage List for England number: 1202486
Street address: 309 Stapleton Road, Eastville, Bristol, BS5 0NH, England (from Wikidata)
The Old Market Street drill hall is a former military installation in the Old Market district of Bristol.
National Heritage List for England number: 1202399
Avon () was a non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in the west of England that existed between 1974 and 1996. The county was named after the River Avon, which flows through the area. It was formed from the county boroughs of Bristol and Bath, together with parts of the administrative counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset.
Street address: Old Market Street, Bristol, BS2, England (from Wikidata)
National Heritage List for England number: 1292082
National Heritage List for England number: 1201975
National Heritage List for England number: 1204207
National Heritage List for England number: 1366064
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bristol, England.
Bristol, the largest city in South West England, has an eclectic combination of architectural styles, ranging from the medieval to 20th century brutalism and beyond. During the mid-19th century, Bristol Byzantine, an architectural style unique to the city, was developed, and several examples have survived.
National Heritage List for England number: 1293000
National Heritage List for England number: 1279689
National Heritage List for England number: 1282193
Netham Lock (grid reference ST616727) is the point at Netham in Bristol at which boats from the River Avon, acting as part of the Kennet and Avon Canal, gain access to Bristol's Floating Harbour.
Shakespeare Inn is a 17th-century pub on Victoria Street, in Bristol, England. It is a timber-framed house, dated 1636 on the front, which was extensively restored in 1950, under the direction of F.L. Hannam, and re-roofed in 1992. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building.
National Heritage List for England number: 1282049
The Gardiners warehouse (grid reference ST596729) is on Straight Street, Broad Plain, Bristol, England.
National Heritage List for England number: 1219044
National Heritage List for England number: 1218983
The St Vincent's Works is a former factory and offices at Silverthorne Lane in Bristol, England.
National Heritage List for England number: 1282118
The Former Gardiners offices (grid reference ST596729) is on Old Bread Street, Bristol, England.
Finzels Reach is a 4.7-acre (1.9 ha) mixed use development site located in central Bristol, England, on a former industrial site, which occupies most of the south bank of Bristol Floating Harbour between Bristol Bridge and St Philip's Bridge, across the river from Castle Park.
Old Market is a Conservation Area of national significance, to the east of the city centre in Bristol, England. Old Market Street and West Street form the central axis of the area, which is approximately bounded by New Street and Lawfords Gate to the north, Trinity Road and Trinity Street to the east, Unity Street and Waterloo Road to the south and Temple Way Underpass to the west.
The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum (grid reference ST597725) was a museum in Bristol, England, exploring the history of the British Empire and the effect of British colonial rule on the rest of the world. The museum opened in 2002 and entered voluntary liquidation in 2013.
Street address: Clock Tower Yard, Temple Meads, Bristol BS1 6QH (from Wikidata)
website: http://www.empiremuseum.co.uk/
National Heritage List for England number: 1202662
UK Government Statistical Service code: E06000023, E43000019; website: https://www.bristol.gov.uk/; ISO 3166-2 code: GB-BST
National Heritage List for England number: 1202397
National Heritage List for England number: 1202015
Wow! Gorillas was a project organised by Bristol Zoo in 2011 that displayed 61 decorated life-sized fibreglass gorilla sculptures on the streets of Bristol, England.
The Clarks Wood Company warehouse is a 19th-century industrial building in Silverthorne Lane, Bristol.
National Heritage List for England number: 1202567
National Heritage List for England number: 1219469
National Heritage List for England number: 1202492
Easton is an inner city area of the city of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Informally the area is considered to stretch east of Bristol city centre and the M32 motorway, centred on Lawrence Hill. Its southern and eastern borders are less defined, merging into St Philip's Marsh and Eastville. The area includes the Lawrence Hill and Barton Hill estates.
National Heritage List for England number: 1282194
National Heritage List for England number: 1202396
The Exploratory Hands-on Science Centre was a science museum in Bristol, England. The project was conceived in 1981 by Richard Gregory CBE, professor of neuropsychology at Bristol University, and was the first hands-on science museum in the United Kingdom. It was inspired by the creation of the Exploratorium in San Francisco which had opened some years earlier and which appointed him Osher Visiting Fellow in 1989. Prof. Gregory said: "As I see it 'hands-on science' is to stimulate interest in science and technology by presenting phenomena and experiments to show how things work at first hand.."
National Heritage List for England number: 1279740
National Heritage List for England number: 1202139
National Heritage List for England number: 1202491
National Heritage List for England number: 1372312
Gromit Unleashed was a public charity art trail led by Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal and Aardman Animations, in which 80 giant artist-decorated fibreglass sculptures of Gromit were displayed on the streets of Bristol and the surrounding area between 1 July and 8 September 2013. At the end of the art trail, the sculptures were auctioned to raise funds for Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children's Hospital Charity. The Grand Appeal pledged to raise £3.5 million for state-of-the-art equipment for Bristol Children's Hospital, including an intraoperative MRI scanner, family facilities and child-friendly artwork to help save the lives of sick children at the hospital. All funds raised by Gromit Unleashed contributed towards this. The project follows the concept of the "Land in Sicht", the original Swiss project by artistic director Walter Knapp which inspired the subsequent worldwide exhibition "CowParade" and similar exhibitions in other cities, including Wow! Gorillas which took place in Bristol in 2011. To date Gromit Unleashed has raised over £5 million for Bristol Children's Hospital.
Eremites Friary was a friary in Bristol, England. The Brothers Eremites of St. Augustine kept a small convent near Temple Gate, founded by Sir Simon and Sir William Montacute in 1320. No trace of it remains today.
National Heritage List for England number: 1202394
National Heritage List for England number: 1207530
Tollgate House was a nineteen floor office building in the city of Bristol, England. It was located at the southern end of the M32 motorway leading into the city centre.
National Heritage List for England number: 1202395
National Heritage List for England number: 1202663
The Warehouse premises of Hardware (Bristol) Limited (grid reference ST596729) is on Old Bread Street, Bristol, England.
National Heritage List for England number: 1202392
National Heritage List for England number: 1202661
National Heritage List for England number: 1218963
St Philip's Marsh depot is a railway depot located in the St Philip's Marsh district of Bristol, England. It was established as a steam locomotive shed in 1910 but this facility closed in the 1960s. A new diesel facility opened nearby at Marsh Junction in 1959. This has since been combined with a new shed which was opened in 1976 to maintain new InterCity 125 trainsets.
Austin Friary was an Augustinian friary in Bristol, England. It was established in 1313, when Simon de Montecute gave 100 square feet (9.3 m2) of land within the Temple Gate of Bristol. Further gifts of land were made by William de Montecute and Thomas of Berkeley during the next thirty years.
The A432 is a road running from Bristol to Old Sodbury. The road is mostly single carriageway with one lane each way, with a short dual carriageway section in the east of Yate.
National Heritage List for England number: 1219031
National Heritage List for England number: 1219448
National Heritage List for England number: 1202660
National Heritage List for England number: 1207446