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THE ESTATES GAZETTE
April 22, 1899.
THOMAS W. MUNDEN,
Auctioneer and Valuer,
COMMERCIAL AUCTION ROOMS,
11, BRIDGE STREET,
BRISTOL.
CHAS. B. WINSON & Co,
Accountants, Auditors, Auctioneers and Valuers,
Estate, Assignment and Bankruptcy
and its height from low water is 287ft. There are 4,200 links to its chains, each of which is | 24ft. in length and 7in. in width. As these with graceful sweep rise over the towers, 70ft. ' high, to fall more abruptly upon the land side and be anchored 70ft. down in the solid rock,
I they drop at regular intervals 162 iron rods that vary in length from 3ft. to 60ft. ; these, though they seem light and fragile as threads, safely suspend the roadway. The total cost of this marvel of skill was over £100,000.
From Mr. Sturge s highly interesting paper, to be read at the meeting on the 26th inst., we take the following particulars : —
Up to early in the present century there was no floating dock in Bristol, and all vessels took the ground on the ebb of the tide. In 1803 the Bristol Dock Company obtained an Act of Parliament to empower them to convert the harbour formed by the confluence of the Drome and Avon into a floating harbour about two miles in extent from Bristol Bridge to the Hotwells. A new channel for the tidal river was formed to provide for the natural outflow of water. This great work was completed in 1810. Unfortunately the dock company^ fixed their dues so high as to drive away trade from the port. This decline reached its climax in 1832, when only 50,000 tons of shipping entered the port from foreign parts. This state of things continued with but little improvement until 1848, when the Corporation obtained an Act of Parliament to enable the city to purchase the dock estate ; and the citizens submitted to a perpetual rate of 4d. in the pound in order to maintain for the shareholders in the company their average income. The dues were largely reduced, with the result that the foreign trade has increased eightfold, from about 100,000 tons of shipping in 1849 to upwards of 800,000 tons in 1898; and notwithstanding great remissions of taxation, the Customs duties collected in the port have increased during the same period from about one million to £1,846,889 in 1898. This amount is only exceeded by the two ports of London and Liverpool.
The river Avon has been straightened and deepened, and new docks have been constructed at Avonmouth and Portisbead. Bristol has now become one of the greatest marts
Trustees.
CITY CHAMBERS, NICHOLAS STREET,
BRISTOL.
Telegrams, “ Winson,” Bristol. Tel. No. 779.
ESTABLISHED 1832.
WALTER HUGHES & SON,
House, Land and Estate Agents and Licensed Appraisers,
38, COLLEGE GREEN, BRISTOL.
Valuations made for Probate Duty. Monthly Illustrated Property Register free on application.
C. H. TUCKER & Co.
Auctioneers, Valuers, House d Estate Agents, Insurance & Mortgage Brokers,
6&7,ST.STEPHEN STREET,BRISTOL
AND AT
85, YtfHITELADIES ROAD, CLIFTON.
AUCTION ROOMS:
BROAD STREET HALL.
Bristol Telephone No. 907.
Clifton Telephone No. 5686.
JOSIAH HERBERT,
ALEXANDER, DANIEL & Co-
Surveyors,
Land Agents'Auctioneers, Bank Chambers, Corn Street, BBISTOL, '
AND ;AT
Worcester House, Walbrook, London, E.C.
SEVERN HOUSE ESTATE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, near BRISTOL.
In a lovely situatio 1, commanding beautful and extensive views, close to village, ciiarcn, and׳ posta* teiegrapa office, and witiiin tour miies 01 Oniton !)own citation.
The charmingly situate FREEHOLD RESIDUES TLAL ESTATE, known as
SEVERN HOUSE, HENBURY,
Comprising a gentleman’s׳ Country House, containing iiHii, nve spacious reception, l¿ uea׳ and dressing rooms, Housekeeper s room, and domestic om.ce». me residence is approacned oy a carriage drive (guarded by entrance iodgej leading to manning terraced pleasure ground»׳, planted with choice decorative timoer, comprising cedar, yew, oak, nr, ask, Deodara, Arocana, and other toliage trees, ail of many years' growth. On two sides of the kouse is a terrace, commanding most extensive and exceptionally beautiful views of tke moorland, the River Severn tke Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, Glamorganshire, and Somersetshire, also the entrance to tne Avon, the picturesque promontory of Portishead, Avonmouth, Oaidicott, and Walton Castles, etc. At a convenient distance from the house is the stable yard, in which are stable, containing accommodation for seven horses, and spacious coach-house, with four rooms for men over. The picturesque grounds, include finely wailed and productive kitchen garden, with greenhouse, tool house, etc.
The Land, which almost surrounds the pleasure grounds and gardens, consists of especially rich and productive park-like pasture land, well supplied with water, the whole being by admeasurement upwards of
21 ACRES,
or thereabouts.
Also, adjoining the foregoing, an attractive little Residence, known as
SEVERN COTTAGE,
comprising two sitting rooms, four bed‘׳ rooms, kitchen, and offices, there being extensive gardens, with two-stall stable and coach-house therein. This desirable little property also commands similarly beautiful views to Severn House.
l\/rE!S&R׳S. ALEXANDER, DANIEL and
Ì.TJ- CO. (in conjunction with Messrs. HAMPTON and SONS) will Sell the aibove by Auction, at the Bank Auction Mart, Corn-street, Bristol, on Thursday, May 18, 1899, at Three o’clock
Particulars and conditions׳ of sale and׳ cards to view of Messrs. Alexander, Daniel and Co., Bank-chambers, Corn-street, Bristol; and of Messrs. Hampton and Sons, 1, Cockspur-street, London, S.W.
T)UILDING PLOTS in one of the most healthy, naturally attractive building estates of Bristol, lying between the far-famed Durdham Down, the residential districts of Rediand, Bishops-ton, and1 Horfield, and the village of Westbury, approached׳ by tram and! 'bus from various points. The aspect is all that can be desired, and the main road of the estate leads׳ directly on to Durdham Down. Alike as to watershed and drainage system, the estate is unexceptionable, and the Bristol Tramway Company have already decided to bring their electrical system through the centre road of the estate.—For all particulars, inspection of plans, conditions, and other information, apply to Mr. H. A. •Hood Daniel, F.S.I. (Messrs. Alexander, Daniel and Co., land and estate agents), Bank-chambers, Corn-street, Bristol; and Worcester House, Walbrook London, E.C.
Auctioneer and Appraiser,
EXCHANGE, BBISTOL.
Care of HUDSON, SMITH, BRIGGS & CO.
it m FOx.״,
Auctioneers, Surveyors, Valuers,
LAND AND ESTATE AGENTS,
26, NICHOLAS STREET, BRISTOL.
Monthly Sales of Horses, '
Temple Gate Repository, Victoria Street.
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and
EDWARD T. PARKER & SON,
Auctioneers, Valuers, Estate Agents, Receivers of Rents,
Offices.
21, CLARE STREET, BRISTOL;
101, WHITELADIES ROAD, CLIFTON; Railway Arch, Cheltenham Hd., Bishopston. London Branch :—20, CHEAP SIDE, E.C.
The Bristol and Suburban Property Register: laigest in Bristol, 3,000 entries.
W. H. SEINER k WINTER,
Auctioneers, Surveyors, Land Stewards and Accountants,
1, Bristol Chambers, Nicholas Street,
BRISTOL.
And at YATTON, SOMERSET
for the importation of grain and other provisions, as well as sugar. The great lack of the port is an export trade, owing to Bristol not being backed by a great manufacturing district schemes are afloat for increasing dock accommodation, including one for the dockisation of the river, and the other for increased dock accommodation at Avonmouth. Each of these schemes would entail an enormous outlay, with the risk of additional taxation. As to the comparative merit of the two schemes public opinion is much divided, with the result that nothing has been done to provide for the increasing size of steamships.
Among the leading industries may be mentioned tobacco, cocoa, soap, locomotive engines railway waggons, stoneware, pottery, bottle works, cotton works, rope making, flax spinning’ mineral waters, confectionery, corn mills, breweries, distilleries, carriage building, stationer•¿ and paper bags, wholesale boot and shoe factories (introduced within the last 40 years ‘ and now carried on by nearly 100 firms), tan yards, chemical works, wholesale clothing, graving ocks, and many other industries of minor importance. These various works employ in the aggregate many thousands of hands.	J
lties a7e better pr0yided than Bristol with places of recreation for the people Clifton and Durdham Downs are commons, lying at an elevation of from 250ft. to 300ft׳ above the river Avon, and together form an extensive and beautiful place of recreation of about 400 acres commanding fine views.; having a bracing and salubrious air, and intersected by several miles of carriage drives. In some parts the Downs are studded with haw-lorns, which make a magnificent display in the spring. In other parts the large open level areas afford spaces for cricket, golf and football. The Society of Merchants are *lords of ״‘C “anor °f OMton’ an<1 in 1860 the Corporation purchased the lordship of the manor of
provided" thaT'theD	/ uT b°dieS COmbined to obtain an of Parliament which
provided that the Downs should for ever be preserved for the recreation and enjoyment of
ville-nark"8¿ Lw	^	pubIb parks’ Brandon Hill, Bedminiter, East-
P< ’	11 indmill Hill; also Rediand Avenue, commonly called the “Lovers’ Walk ”
here are also several smaller open spaces scattered about in the centre of the city, amcn״st which may be specially mentioned Colston-avenue, formed by the covering in a C vears
¿,״rlf hV1Ver Fr°me ab°Ve th(־ °W dlwbridSe> and ornamented with statues of Edmund Burke who once represented the city in Parliament, and of Edward Colston
״ L°W t0UCh bnefly Up°n the charminS Places which the members of the Surveyors Institution propose to visit on the 27th instant.
lTLOTS in valuable BUILDING ESTATES in
-L other desirable districts may be taken up.— For full particulars apply to Messrs. Alexander, Daniel and Co., land agents and surveyors, Bank-chambers. Corn-street, Bristol; and Worcester House Walbrook, London, E.C.
To Hotel Proprietors, and Capitalists generally. A Unique Opportunity.
rjHE RUNNACLEAVE HOTEL.
With fine Assembly Hal! ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.
The above well-known and favourite Hotel, with ite complete and costly Furniture and Appointments may be purchased! at once; or a lease may be acquired with the option of purchase. There are upwards of 150 rooms, including 120 visitors’ bed rooms, large dining ball, drawing, writing, billiard smoking and private sitting rooms; the hotel being generall,v replete with every modern convenience, !here are entrances! from two important thoroughfares, the front approach being through an elegant conservatory lounge.
A FULL LICENSE HAS ONLY RECENTLY BEEN OBTAINED.
The hall, with fitted stage, has separate public and private entrances, and being the only spacious one in toe town, is a most important and valuable feature, being used not only by visitors for dancing ond recreation, but for public concerts and other entertainments, including theatrical performances, thus contributing to the revenue of the hotel.
The town df Ilfracombe has! become a most im-portant seaside resort. Its summer popularity is steadily increasing; while the remarkable mildness ot its climate is bringing it prominently before the medical profession as also a winter resort.
+v.^Ua^lerA Particulars! may be obtained only from the Sole Agents, Messrs. Alexander, Daniel and Co hofel and brewery valuers and accountants, Bank-
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