Embark on a walking tour exploring the ‘city that might have been’ to learn about the buildings, monuments, bridges or gardens of Bristol that were never built.
Local historian and journalist Eugene Byrne takes us on a walking tour of things that aren’t there: building schemes and monuments that never happened, from the commercially hard-headed to the absurdly idealistic, from the practical to the brutally inappropriate to the just plain ridiculous. The visions outlined in this tour form the story of a city that would have been better in some ways, worse in others, but certainly very different.
Eugene Byrne is the author of Unbuilt Bristol: The City That Might Have Been, 1750-2050, which looks at the building schemes that have been proposed and then abandoned over the last 200 years, from the railway station in Queen Square to the vast cemetery in St Pauls.
Eugene Byrne is a Bristol-based author, historian and journalist.
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