Sketch of Bristol and the Hotwells / [Francis Moreton].

  • Moreton, Francis.
Date:
[1825]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sketch of Bristol and the Hotwells / [Francis Moreton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a tide is obviai^, and Ihe ships can lie constantly in water# A towing, jiath has ’also beert made at a grea t expens,e to the mouth of the rivfer oh tfie’feouth^side. The horamu- nication between the brinks of whht is Called'the New Ci;t and of the Floating Bi’Srrh IS ttlso^ rhO^t ihaVerm facilitated by two iron bridges; one nf ^'#H,ich with Bedminster, and the Bridgewater toad’;' and tlie other with Beth, Wells, &c. There is also a third bridge, called the Swing-bridge, th^it faces the end of Pninpes’s- street, being -named in compliment to George Prince of Benmai^k; as wns the adjoining square to his consort, 'Queen Aniie, and greatly facilitates the communication 'wUh Bath by- avoiding' Temple-Street, to those who come from the Clifton side. A good road also ie now open from the Hot-wells, crossing the new dam, and skirting the new cut, as far as the second iron bridge, on the road to Bath ; so that any person may go commodiously from Bath to Clifton and the Wells, or from Bridgewater, without en¬ tering the city of Bristol, ob paying a single toll; and will enjoy at the same time, a view of the whole of the new navigation, and both the entrance-basins ; which are named, that at the Hot-wells, Cumberland basin, in compliment io.the Royal Duke, and that near Prince’s-Street, which 'is about the centre of the float, Bathurst basin, after one rof the representatives of Bristol in Parliament at the time of its completion. The expense of these extensive improve¬ ments has been defrayed by a subscription, which very shortly after the plan was proposed amounted to 500^0001.,; .and to evince more clearly the opulence and public spirit of the inhabitants of Bristol, no less a sum than 10,C0t>!. was at the same time raised by voluntary subscription for building an additional wing to its infirmary, while the an¬ nual subscriptions for the support of it amounted in 1814 to nearly 40001. Its regular annual expenditure, now that the new wing is opened for the reception of patients, is about 70001., which sum is liquidated by the dividends arising from funded property formed of legacies, Bristol bolds a proportionate degree of rank in its support of the Bible society, and possesses two institutions for raising the children of poverty above the brutality of ignorance. For reji«f of diseases of the body there are, in addition to the Infirmary, a Dispensary, chiefly for the assistanceof lying- ia womea 5 an Hospital for diseases of ihe eyes; an Asy-