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26 historic photos of College Green
College Green has been the focus of the city’s attention this weekend with the poignant Shrouds of the Somme art installation.
We’ve taken a look back at College Green in times gone by, thanks as ever to the brilliant Bristol Record Office:
1. College Green, looking up Park Street with new Council house on the left, c.1954.
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2. College Green with statue of Queen Victoria to the left and shops to the right, c.1930.
3. College Green shops and Lord Mayor’s Chapel, c.1925.
4. College Green ‘in darkness’, c. 1920 
5. College Green walk way opposite the Cathedral, c.1908
6. College Green, with the Cathedral and statue of Queen Victoria, c.1920
7. College Green and statue of Queen Victoria, c.1900’s
8. College Green and the Cathedral depicted in a drawing as it may have looked early in the 20th Century, c.1956.
9. Looking across College Green towards St Augustine-the-Less, c.1920’s
10. Avenue of trees on College Green, c.1909
11. College Green featuring the High Cross, c.1920’s
12. College Green featuring the High Cross and the Cathedral, c.1930’s. 
13. College Green featuring the High Cross and the Cathedral floodlit at night, c.1937.
14. College Green featuring the High Cross, c.1920’s.
15. College Green featuring the High Cross and the Cathedral, c.1920’s.
16. College Green featuring the High Cross with sheep grazing on the Green, c.1903.
17. College Green featuring the High Cross with Cabot Tower in the distance, c.1910.
18. College Green featuring the High Cross with Cabot Tower in the distance, c.1910’s.
19. College Green featuring the High Cross, c.1910’s.
20. College Green featuring the High Cross, c.1910’s.
21. College Green featuring the High Cross, c.1910’s.
22. College Green featuring the High Cross, c.1900’s.
23. College Green featuring the High Cross, c.1910’s.
24. College Green featuring captured German First World War guns, c.1919.
25. Private house on College Green, c.1907.
26. Private house on College Green, c.1900’s.
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