things you probably didn’t know

• News / things you probably didn't know

  The story behind much-loved Bristol fast food chain

  The birth of what went on to become a well-known brand of chicken shop

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• Features / things you probably didn't know

  Bristol’s medieval parish boundary markers hidden in plain sight

  Reminders of the former city centre churches of St Werburgh, St Leonard and more

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• Features / things you probably didn't know

  Inside the hidden church in the city centre

  The long derelict former Seamen's Church & Institute "demands imaginative reuse"

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• Features / things you probably didn't know

  What’s in a place name?

  St Paul's or St Pauls? Troopers Hill, Trooper's Hill or Troopers' Hill?

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• Features / things you probably didn't know

  The gaol ferry that was here before Gaol Ferry Bridge

  Could the ferry be reinstated during the bridge's closure?

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  This is how two giant stone nodules from St Anne’s ended up in Kingsdown

  They date from the late Carboniferous period over 300m years ago

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  The little-known link between Bristol and Dublin

  Bristol has a thousand-year-old connection with the Irish capital

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• Features / Castle Park

  Remembering the Bristol men who fought and died for democracy in Europe

  A plaque commemorates Britons in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

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