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Reading the Riot Act artwork

In 2009, Graeme Mortimer Evelyn, aka Grim, was commissioned by Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives to "subvert historical record"[1]. The result of extensive research and an old Chinese gambling table – the museum acquired the large painted relief sculpture, Reading the Riot (Act), a permanent work acquired for their new contemporary art collections. This commission is on permanent display in the People Gallery, at the M Shed.

The piece is inspired by, and seeks to be a piece of, the long history of dissent within the city.

**Influences** - **according to selected notes, 2009**

*“We have laws against it, precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption is what keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around here instead of fighting each other for scraps of meat out there in the streets. Corruption; is why we win.”*

-  Syriana (2005) Directed by Stephen Gaghan. Distributed by Warner Bros.

*“Make a man an offer he cannot refuse in a language he can understand”*

-  famous Italian Mafia saying

**Content**

Reading The Riot Act predominantly references the Reform Riot of 1831.

It also encompasses the threads and links with other historical narratives outlined in Challenging Stories. When Graeme Evelyn read the brief, surveyed the histories being considered, and surveyed the documentation supporting the commission, he found several defining links.

- Our historical relationship to Law and defence of basic rights within the Law

- Reading the Riot Act to gatherings of people opposed to and protesting injustice of a current Law with or without the use of threatening violence

- Bristol social historical accounts of consistently questioning*‘authority’* and established norms of control with or without the use of threatening violence

- The often-equal number of dissent and pro status quo voices on historical record

- Evelyn is particularly interested in the metaphor of the ‘*record’* and ‘*recording’* of events of *‘truths’, ‘facts’ and ‘fiction’*, especially through use of the circle. The uses of circles, he observes, have often represented cycles of repetitive historical events in many cultures.

*“What goes around comes around”*

*“The Cause and Effect of Karmic Action and Reaction”*

- Bristol’s relationship to its often dissent inspired popular musical legacy, which has encouraged so many to relocate to the City, in search of a rich tapestry of recorded social musical chemistry.

Anecdote

 According to a Jamaica Street artist who knows Evelyn, the artwork is a visual pun on the word "record" - it is both a historical and vinyl record. The musicians each wear a coloured tie corresponding to the main political parties. The dancing couple look as if they are in harmony with each other - but are they? In reality how is the relationship between the law and democracy, freedom, equality, justice and reform?
Tam O'Shanter

This info is on display in the Moving by Public Vehicle display in the Places Gallery

Following the reforms of the postal delivery service at the end of the 1700s, horse-drawn post coaches, such as Tam O' Shanter, carried passengers as well as mail. These coaches were the fastest and most efficient form of long distance public transport. In 1837, the Tam O' Shanter was on the Bristol to Exeter run. By the 1830s, this form of public transport was a punctual and efficient service (during the 'golden age' of coaching); however, the steam-powered locomotive soon superseded it.

The name Tam O' Shanter is taken from the Robert Burns poem of the same name. It alludes to the coach's reputation for speed. In the poem, Tam escapes from witches owing to the speed of his horse; the painting in the museum's collection, dating from 1837, develops this theme further, with the fictional characters Tam and his drinking partner 'Souter Johnny' depicted as passengers in an otherwise historical representation of the coach.
Janet Scammell

This person is on display in the Contributing Wrap in the People Gallery

(1939 - 2023}

Janet
Scammell was born in Bristol in1939. She started voluntary work while working
at Avon County Council and later became a support worker for clients attending
day centres in the area.  By 1990, she
was medically retired.

Janet
developed a commitment to and expertise for disability and equality issues,
which spurred her on to work both locally and nationally.  She has successfully campaigned on transport
issues while volunteering with The Disabled Drivers Motor Club (DDMC).  She and her husband have helped to run a
popular ‘Caravan and Campers’ section, and have organised three rallies a year
for disabled members and their families. For 12 years, Janet served on the
national committee and many know her as the editor of their popular magazine,
‘The Disabled Motorist’.  This work along
with her extensive involvement with Shopmobility (a scheme that lends wheelchairs and scooters to people
with limited mobility to enable them to shop and to visit leisure and
commercial facilities within their area) resulted in her being awarded
an MBE in 1999.

Janet
has continued to work tirelessly with many local organisations including
Arthritis Care, Disabled Living Centre (DLC) and the West of England Centre for
Inclusive Living (WECIL) of which she was Chair until 2009.  Currently, Janet still remains as a trustee
with DLC, is Chair of Shopmobility and the Bristol Physical Access Chain.
Michael Dillon

This person is on display in the Contributing Wrap in the People Gallery

(1915 –1962)

Michael was born as Laura Maud Dillon to an aristocratic family in
Folkestone, Kent. Losing his mother in childbirth, he and his brother were
looked after by their aunts. Michael studied at a girls’ school called St
Anne’s College in Oxford. In 1938, Michael met Dr. George Foss who gave him
hormone pills to begin his gender reassignment. When rumours spread through his
social circles, he moved to Bristol. The hormone treatment made it possible for
Michael to pass as male. This was a very painful and lonely time for him. Michael
is believed to be the first transgender person to have taken the male hormone
testosterone to look like a man and over a period of several years he had a
number of surgeries to transform his appearance.

Michael studied medicine
at Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1946 publish the seminal work ‘Self: A Study
in Endocrinology and Ethics’. This publication is still acknowledged today for
its groundbreaking focus on the wellbeing of transgender patients. He discussed
treating what is now medically known as gender identity disorder. In his book
he wrote, “Where the mind cannot be made to fit the body, the body should be
made to fit, approximately at any rate, to the mind.” He also assisted with the UK’s first male-to-female
gender surgery on Roberta Cowell while still a student. In 1951, he graduated and became a
ship's doctor, serving on voyages to Asia, Australia, and America.

In 1958, Michael’s secret
was revealed to the public when a
genealogical guide, listed him as heir to his brother's title under his former
name. Faced with intrusion by the press into his personal life, Michael moved
to India and converted to Buddhism. He then moved to Tibet to become a novice
monk. His health failed and he died in a hospital at Dalhousie, Punjab 1962,
aged 47. Michael’s personal experiences have greatly contributed to the modern
treatment and care of trans-gender people.
Places Gallery Object List

Bristol's Oldest Park

The Friends of Greville Smyth

Walking for Leisure

Blaise Castle Estate

Park Art

Wildlife

Clifton Victoria Baths

Henleaze Swimming Lake

Cubicle

Swimwear

Rennison's Baths

The Theatre Royal

Bristol Hippodrome

Golden Age of Cinema

The Llandoger Trow

Pub fittings

At the Hotwells

Spectator Sport

Young's Great House

Brisuanadon, 2009

Roman Mosaic

Commemorative Trowl

Home from Rome

Witness Statement

A Fashionable Address

The Conservators Story

Queen Square Paintings

Architectural features

Stained glass window

Georgian Boom and Bust

Barton Hill Redeveloped

Victorian Expansion

Interwar Suburbia

Rainwater head

Chimney ventilator

Chimney pot

Bristol's Arcades

The New Broadmead

Cabot Circus

Dresses and dressmaking

Typewriter

Toys and Games

Mechanical Singing Bird

Household goods

Cothes and Cosmetics

Furniture

Catalogues

Bristol's Sugar Refinaries

Bristols Glass Cones

The Brab Hangar and Brabazon

Coal mining in Bristol

Coal-mining dial, about 1850-1950

The Spectrum Building

The Bristol and West Building

Lavars Birdseye view of Bristol 1887

Port Maintenance

Bristol's Floating Harbour

Transforming Avonmouth

Royal Portbury West Dock

Harbourside Regeneration

Tidal Gauge

Princes Wharf Souvenir Programme

Defending the City

Bristol Rebuilt

 A Medieval Jewish Community

St. Mary Redcliffe

 The First Methodist Chapel

Charter of Theobald

Tomb Effigy

The Bristol Jamia Mosque

 The First Sikh Temple

Charter of Theobald

Tomb Effigy

St. Peter's Hospital

Foster's Almshouses

Bristol Children's Hospital

Bristol Royal Infirmary

The Wills Memorial Tower

Merchants Hall

New Gaol

Book of Skin

Council House

Coat of Arms

Great Charter of Liberties

Bristol Bridge Rebuilt

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Hill's Cast Iron Bridge

Oil Painting

Medieval Conduits

The Building of the Sewers

Completing the Sewer network

Bristol's Underground River

Francis Fry (penny farthing)

Ernest Bond

Eric Evens and his Bike

Beddoes' Family Moped

### Moving by Alternate Vehicle

Rick Hurst's skate board and shoes, bought from 50/50 skate shop. Established in 1997.  Fifty Fifty Store was on Park Row, but moved to Park Street about seven or eight years ago.

Boxkite Flying Display

Pocock's Charvolants

DIY Flight

Up Up and Away

Basket Across the Gorge

### Moving by Private Vehicle

Private Carriages

Horseback Travel

The Colonel's Car

Douglas Motorbike

### Moving by Goods Vehicle

#### By Rail

Harbour Railway

Henbury

Portbury

#### By Road

Delivery by Dray

Delivery by Sled

#### By Water

Crossing the River

Trows

Barges, Lighters & Tugs

The Wreck of the ss Ettrick

Bristol Channel Pilots

Steam Launch Explodes

Wherries & Ferries

### Moving by Emergency Vehicle

Fire Boat Pyronaut

Fire Engine

Emergency Marker

Ambulance driver

### Moving by Public Vehicle

Trams

Trains

Cabs

#### Coaches & Buses

Lodekka Bus

Tam O'Shanter

Mail Coach
Kassam Ismail Majothi

This person is on display in the Contributing Wrap in the People Gallery

(1924-2002)

Kassam
Mathoji migrated to the UK with his family to flee persecution from the Ugandan
government. With limited funds but a capacity for
sheer hard work and a wealth of experience in merchandising, he started his
family business with a shop selling Indian sweet meats and home-made foods in
Easton. Since then, the business has grown in strength and size. The
business, now called ‘Bristol Sweetmart’ has acquired a deli and sells an array
of food and spices from the Indian subcontinent, Africa, the Mediterranean, the
Middle East and Asia. Kassam’s shop also supplies wholesale products to 40 per
cent of all Indian takeaways and restaurants across Bristol and the surrounding
areas.

Kassam
Majothi passed away in 2002 and is commemorated by a blue plaque in St Mark’s
Road, Easton. His four sons, daughter and grandchildren continue the Sweetmart
legacy.
Coming to Study Muzzamil Lakhani

Muzzamil (Muzz) Lakhani came to Britain from Pakistan in 2003, to study physics and astrophysics at the University of Bristol.

Muzz is partially sighted and chose Bristol because of the support the University offers to students with disabilities. Muzz is an award-winning student. "The change of culture and a major university all seemed daunting at first. Yet I was determined to succeed."
Alfred the Gorilla

A plaster bust made from Alfred's death mask, is displayed in the People Gallery.

From his
arrival at Bristol Zoo Gardens in 1930, Alfred was destined for stardom.  A great rarity and huge attraction; for two
years he regularly partook of walks around the grounds accompanied by his
keeper, before he became too large and strong.
Thereafter he became increasingly famous, as much for his dislike for
bearded men, double-decker buses and aeroplanes (and for his nearest rival as
the star of the Zoo, Rosie the Elephant) as for his antics in his
enclosure.  During the war years of the
1940s thousands of postcards of Alfred were posted back to the USA from
servicemen billeted in the city, so spreading his star status across the
globe.  At his death in 1948 he was the
longest lived gorilla in captivity anywhere in the world and a true animal
celebrity.  He is still remembered fondly
by those who marvelled at him as children escaping the austerity of war through
a trip to the zoo.

His taxidermic form is in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. In 1956 Alfred went missing for a weekend and the actual happenings were a complete mystery until 2010 when one of the people who took him died. Ron Morgan along with 2 other fellow students, Fred Hooper and DB took Alfred from the museum to their Clifton flat in the boot of a Vauxhall car. They kept him hostage for 60 hours and passed the time by dressing him up in hats and wigs and taking a lot of photographs of hiM which they kept in a scrapbook. They always intended to return him and they did this by leaving him in a waiting room of a medical centre. Morgan swore his family and friends to secrecy and the full story was only revealed at the time of his death in 2010.
Colston Hall

*Information about the Colston Hall can be found on the Places to Live and Enjoy - Venues ICT in the Places Gallery.*

The **Colston Hall** is a concert hall and Grade II listed building. Colston Hall has been the name given to the four buildings which have occupied the site on Colston Street since the 1860s.

In the Thirteenth Century, the site was occupied by a 13th Century Carmelite Friary (built around 1256) known as Whitefriars. The Friary would, at the time, have overlooked the River Frome. After the Dissolution of The Monasteries in the 1530s, a Tudor-era mansion known as the Great House occupied the site, which was built by John Young, a local merchant who had acquired the site in 1536. It overlooked the quay and was used by Queen Elizabeth I during her 1574 visit to the city.

In 1707 Edward Colston established the Colston Boys School in the same building.

In 1861, the site was acquired by the Colston Hall Company, and a new building - in the Bristol Byzantine style by the prolific Bristol architects Foster & Wood - was opened as a concert venue on 20 September 1861.

On 1 September 1898 a fire damaged most of the building and destroyed the interior. The second hall opened in 1901 and in 1919, the Corporation of Bristol purchased the building from the Colston Hall Company.

The second hall closed for remodelling in 1935 and a third hall opened in 1936. Although this hall survived the Second World War, it burned down in 1945 in a fire triggered by a discarded cigarette.

A fourth hall was built which opened in 1951 to mark the Festival of Britain.

From 2007 to 2009 a new foyer, topped by a wind turbine, was built alongside the fourth hall. Colston House, a 1930s Art Deco building (it was formerly Radiant House, headquarters of The Bristol Gas Company from 1935), was demolished to make this possible. This construction allowed the old bar area, previously known as the 'little threatre' or the 'lesser Colston Hall' to revert to bring a performance space now known as 'The Lantern'. Archaeologists found the remains of ancient walls believed to have been from the Friary, and decorative 13th Century floor tiles depicting Richard I and Saladin.

The venue's link to steve buscemi, whose wealth came in large part from the Transatlantic Slave Trade, has become a point of controversy, with campaigners, many from Bristol's African Carribean Community, calling for the venue's name to be changed. The Bristol band Massive Attack have vowed not to play the venue while it retains the Colston name.
Amarelossauro

**Brasil** | Ronaldo De Azevedo

**Amarelossauro** E um Personagem Que Apareceu Pela Unica Vez Em DESNECESSAURO (episódio).

## Personalidade

Amarelossauro é um dinossauro amarelo com seu amigo

verdedossauro aparece em um video cantando parabéns em

um aniversario do coitadossauro

## Aparência

E Como Um Dinnossauro Amarelo Normal, possui um chifre da mesma cor em sua testa.

## Curiosidades

* Seu nome real nunca foi revelado oficialmente mas é chamado de amarelossauro pelos fãs
Ricardo Sharry

This person is on display in the Contributing Wrap in the People Gallery

(1989 - )

Ricardo was raised in Barton Hill in Bristol and has been
working in his community since 2001, when he was just 13. In 2005, he first got
involved with ‘Community at Heart’, where he sat on the board of directors
representing the vote for young people. He later worked as a youth and
community worker for the community group where he managed the youth forum and
worked in St Phillips to engage young people with their local community.

He was nominated by the Department for Communities and
Local Government to be part of the REACH programme, which encouraged African
Caribbean men to become role models and advise the government on policy making.
His work on the campaign was in his own words “about shaping policy so young
black men in this country benefit from the opportunities available, so they can
seek better employment prospects and a better future."

Ricardo has set up a business called Captured Talent which
employs young people to shape business ideas within their community. Local
entrepreneurs will be given the opportunity to test their products using a pop-up
shop. The plan is to help them set up their own businesses, once they have
established a reliable customer base. He hopes to use profits from the business
to support, train and employ young people who are not in education, employment
or training.

In 2012, Ricardo
completed a Law Degree at the University of the West of England (UWE). The same
year, he started a master’s degree in Business Management working as a graduate
trainee with Bristol City Council. Ricardo continues to voice his commitment to different people in Bristol. “Ultimately,
I want to help all communities.”
Babyhead

This band is on display in the Contributing Wrap in the People Gallery

Ska, hiphop and dub musicians

Babyhead are an eight-piece band who formed during the
2000s out of a love for Jamaican music. Their current lineup includes: JG and
Milkman on guitar, Krishna on bass, Little Tom on vocals, Joss, Mossy and
Misterlong in the brass section and Lupo on drums. They developed their sound
drawing on a variety of genres such as ska, punk-rock and hip-hop, sometimes
described as ‘skip hop’. During their time together, they have recorded three
studio albums: ‘Babyboomtown’, ‘The Geek Show’, and the 2010, ‘Heavy Weather’.

Babyhead perform in clubs and on the festival circuit
including Glastonbury, New York Fashion Week and SmileyFest in Thailand. They are
known for their fun and high-energy performances and audience participation. Fans
of the group are attracted by their charisma, bright suits, bold vocals and powerful
saxophone, trombone and trumpet sounds.

When they are not playing at gigs or running the
Plough pub in Easton, Babyhead are involved in ‘Heads Up High!’ (HUH!), a
musical education project that delivers high quality workshops to a wide range
of people. Through Heads Up High!, Babyhead use music as a tool to improve
literacy, communication and self-expression as well as understanding and
respect for other people.
The Pyronaut

Pyronaut was the third fire boat to work in Bristol's City Docks. She was built in 1934 at Charles Hill & Sons shipyard and designed to be able to pass under every bridge in the harbour without the need to open them. She could to work between Cumberland Basin and Hanham weir, the entire extent of the port estate in the city. Originally named Phoenix II, she was renamed in 1938, the new name being suggested by the teenage son of the Chair of the Watch Committee who was studying Greek at the time. It was hard for land-based engines to reach ships and buildings and so Pyronaut fought numerous peacetime fires before spending the early part of World War 2 in action almost every time that the Luftwaffe bombed the city. After the war, she reverted to peacetime duties, attending the major blazes at the Hippodrome, St Annes Board Mills, Colston Hall and Rowe Brothers lead works in the 1940s and 50s. She also deputised for the Avonmouth fire boat once a year when it went for maintenance, and spent several days there in 1951 when the largest peacetime fire to that date broke out in the oil tanks. At the end of the 1960s she was re-equipped with new engines and pumps, but the speedy decline of shipping in the City Docks and the greater ease with which land-based engines could get to fires meant that she was sold out of the fire service in 1973.
Elisha Robinson

(1817–1885)

Elisha Robinson came to Bristol in 1844 and set up a business to supply shopkeepers with their stationery and packaging needs. Robinson hit on the idea of wrappers and bags printed with the name of the shop and a design from a huge stock of pictures. When a bag-making machine was invented in America, Robinson bought the rights to manufacture it in Britain. His business grew into DRG, one of the giants of the packaging industry in the UK.
Stapleton Road

**Stapleton Road** is a major thoroughfare in the City of Bristol. It is known for being very culturally diverse with many esoteric shops, however since the mid 20th century it has gained a reputation for having a high crime rate.

## Route

The road starts at the junction between Lawford's Gate and Trinity road in the St Jude's area of Bristol and also marks the start of the A432.
While there is still a shopping area here today only one side of the road is mostly pre war, the other side has mostly now housing estates, this part has been severely affected by the building of the A4320 which completely bisected the road in the '70s causing a large gap, the road was originally meant to be part of a much grander ring road around inner Bristol, but these plans were eventually shelved although the road was extended to the A4 in the '90s. The Large gap is connected by both pedestrian crossings and a subway however the road is further disjointed by the fact that through traffic apart from buses, taxis and bikes cannot continue along the Stapleton Road here and must travel to the M32 J1 roundabout to get back on to the A432.

From here on most of the road is pre war on both sides this area has been particularly notable for its crime rate further a long it is crossed by the Cross Country Route railway line next to the Railway station, after the railway line a short section of the River Frome runs close to the road, it used to be open but was culverted around the time the M32 was built and a footpath runs coherently with the route of the river and there is now a small park called Fox Park on the location. The Stapleton Road TOTSOs at the junction with the Fishponds Road in Eastville Coherently the A432 continues along the Fishponds road as a main street still with many shops and the cultural change towards Fishponds is more gradual.

From here on the road changes character Following on the Stapleton Road becomes a less grand affair and is mainly residential, also since the building of the M32 the road has become much narrower and one side has become lost to the M32 and traffic can only head northbound. A small section of the road was completely obliterated for building of the M32 Junction 2 in the '70s After the roadabout the road is once again two way and gains the number B4058 shortly before dives once again under the M32 and over the river Frome, becoming Bell Hill at the junction with Glenfrome Road finally having reached Stapleton.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/mar/12/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy
Anton Bantock

This person is on display in the Contributing Wrap in the People Gallery

(1933 - 2015 )

Anton Bantock was born in Birmingham and educated at King
Edward’s Grammar School. After National Service, he went to New College, Oxford
where he read history. In 1955, he started his career as a teacher and moved to Bristol in
1960 to take up a post at Bedminster Down School. He stayed there for 27 years becoming
Head of History and enthusiastically encouraging pupils to engage with the
curriculum. During his career, he wrote several books, travelled extensively and
set up a charity to raise money for people overseas without access to formal education
or training.

On
his retirement, he set up the University of Withywood in his own home with the aim
of providing local people and disadvantaged individuals around the world with
educational opportunities they might not normally access. Through the
university, Anton has sponsored young people from countries such as Hong Kong,
Kenya, Jordan, India and Syria. Individuals helped by the University of
Withywood have gone on to complete Bachelors’ degrees, escape persecution and to
tutor Spanish classes for the university. Anton also founded the Malago Society
in 1973, which produces a newsletter and lectures covering local history in the
south-west area of Bristol.

Anton’s mother was the second woman ever to write Grand
Opera and his grandfather, Granville Bantock, was a renowned composer who was
knighted in recognition of his contribution to English music. Anton himself was
awarded the MBE in 2003 for services to the community, particularly with
respect to education. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol in 2010.
Goal Ferry Bridge

The ornate footbridge
opposite the New Gaol gateway is Gaol Ferry Bridge, built in the 1930s to
replace the ferry that crossed the New Cut here. You can still see the
ramps leading to the ferry on both sides. The bridge is also a good
viewpoint from which to see the most spectacular section of the New
Cut.
Charter of Theobald

This object is on display in the Places Gallery

This is the oldest document relating to Bristol in the collections of Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives.

Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, issued this charter to confirm Turstin of Bristol as priest of St Ewen, one of Bristol's earliest churches. It seems that the abbot of Tewkesbury Abbey wanted to replace Turstin with a priest of his own. Theobald threatened anyone who might interfere with damnation, which gave rise to the charter being known as the 'Curse of St Ewen'
People Gallery Object List

Object list

## Challenging

### Rioting

St. Pauls Riot

Love is All I Bring (artwork)

1831 Reform Riot

Reading The Riot Act (artwork)

### Protesting

Bronze Bust of Ernest Bevin

Somerdale (T&GWU) banner

## Creating

### Wood

S.S. Great Western (models)

Demerara Figurehead

William Patterson

Anderson's Wood Carvers

### Glass Ceramics

Kate Malone Ceramics

Ham Green Pottery

Pountney's Bristol pottery

### Food and Consumables

J. S. Frys & Sons Ltd

W.D. & H.O. Wills Tobacco

### Music and Performance

Massive Attack

Fred Wedlock

Mass book, about 1500

Tune book for the Catholic mass, about 1370

Clara Butt

Hat from the Gang Show

### Visual Arts and Paintings

Bust of E H Baily, by E G Papworth jar

Some who have made Bristol famous
Judaism in Bristol

A small but well-established Jewish community lived in Bristol, in an area known as a Jewry, by the end of the 1100s.

The earliest Jewry in Bristol was situated on Jewrie Lane (now Quay Street). After it was attacked in the 1260s, the community moved to the Winch Street (now Wine Street) area, where two new synagogues were created.

When King Edward I expelled all Jews from England in 1290, these two synagogues became redundant and nothing remains of them today.
Ham Green Pottery

A large amount of pottery from Bristol turns up in
archaeological excavations at medieval sites in Ireland. These jugs are typical
of the sort of ‘small wares’ imported by Irish traders and supplied by the Ham
Green and other Bristol potteries.

Surviving examples of Ham Green jugs were found during building works on the the
site of the keep of Bristol Castle.  They
seem to have been thrown into the well as rubbish.
Thomas Chatterton

Thomas Chatterton was born in Bristol in 1752. His father died four months before he was born so his mother established a girls' school and took in sewing.

Chatterton was sent to Colston's Hospital School at the age of 8. In the Life Gallery there is a register in the school section that records his admission to the school on 3 August 1760.

In his teens he claimed to have discovered ancient verses by a medieval monk called Rowley in St Mary Redcliffe church, Bristol, where his uncle was responsible for the church buildings and graveyard. Scholars considered them to be genuine but in fact the young Chatterton had written them himself. He moved to London at the age of 16 where he wrote for various journals and magazines. At the age of 17 he died, most likely due to suicide but some think it could have been an accidental overdose.

His work and death have been discussed and portrayed in art ever since - in poems,books and paintings. Some examples of these are "Resolution and Independence" by William Wordsworth, "Five English Poets" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the most famous painting of him called "The Death of Chatterton" by Henry Wallis which is in Tate Britain (See image on right).
Spicers Door

This oak doorway was the entrance to Spicer’s Hall a mediaeval merchants town house on Welsh Back it was lived in by Richard Spicer three times mayor of Bristol and MP the building and its fine gothic ornate doorway was also designed by him. He gifted his home to Mayor and corporation of Bristol in 1377 and from 1459 the hall was used for goods imported into the city by non Bristolians prior to sale. (Photo of Spicer’s Hall door during Demolition 1885) .The front of the Building was demolished in 1885 for improvements to Welsh Back and the oak door and porch was demolished. The rest of the building survived until the Bristol Blitz of 1940.The hall was also at one point home to the Merchant Venture’s society a prestigious society originally involved with the cities shipping trade. Another Wealth merchant called Robert Sturmy lived there in the 15th century. On The site now is contemporary flats and a café.

### EMU Description

'Spicer's Doorway': An oak door frame: .1 and .2: Oak door frame consisting of left and right side. Each consist of door

jambs with shallow moulded ogee, at right angles to this the shallow pointed arch door frame, in corner between

moulded pilasters. .3 and .4: Oak door surround in two halves with a pointed arch. Each half is curved: open-work

arched window, at base ogee arch with rosette above. Circles with three interlocking paisleys, another paisley to fill

space; side with board protrusion along top which presumably slots into lintel. Some repairs made. .5: Oak door lintel

with three tenons on upper surface. Lower surface recessed to make shallow straight-sided pointed arch with central

keystone moulding of wood. Large mortice holes for joints of jambs. .6: Main door and frame section that is on display in M Shed

== Anecdotes ==

-David Singleton said that the tracery on the door, which doesn't fit quite correctly, is actually from a door that had been part of St. Augustine's abbey. at the point of dissolution the owner of the hall decided it would look good on his door and tacked it on.
Bristol Grammer School

Robert Thorne, his brother Nicholas and the rector of Holy Trinity Church, John Goodrich, bought St. Bartholomew's Hospital in Christmas Street in 1532. Their intention was to turn it into Bristol's first grammar school.

Pupils from a small school over the Frome Gate were moved in to the new location at St. Bartholomew's and although students had to pay for their board and buy their equipment, teaching was free.

Robert died in 1532 leaving money to the grammar school in his will, though it took a series of law suits to ensure the money got there.  When Nicholas died in 1546, he instructed a lawyer to ensure the school was protected by public ownership and donated his books, charts, maps and scientific instruments.

By 1767, the school at St Bartholomew's was full and bigger premises were needed. The Master persuaded the Corporation to let the grammar school exchange places with Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol's other large city school

The Grammar School remained at this site until the 1870s when once again the pupils had outgrown their premises. A new school was established at Tyndalls Park, where it can still be found today.
Sherry butt, about 1800

As political and economic changes affected Bristols trade with France after the loss of English territories in 1453, her merchants looked elsewhere for trading opportunities. French wine was replaced with Spanish sherry, a drink that became so closely linked to Bristol that it was called " Bristol Milk".

A **hogshead** is a large cask of liquid (or, less often, of a food commodity). More specifically, it refers to a specified volume, measured in either imperial or US customary measures, primarily applied to alcoholic beverages, such as wine, ale, or cider.

1 hogshead =

238.480942 litres
Love is All I Bring

On Display in People Gallery in M Shed

A mixed-media, two-dimensional working by Motorboy consisting of thirteen screenprinted panels within a black frame.

Motorboy explains: 'my work reflects the tradition of direct action in the city - from riots to politics to art. It looks beyond the media's representation of events to show that the individuals are thinking and the context of the time. This work asks you to look beyond the headlines about the St. Paul's riot.'

Motorboy often uses song titles or lyrics to title his work. 'Love is all I bring' is a line from Althea and Donna's 'Uptown Top Ranking'.

Commissioned for M Shed
Theatre Royal

Information can be found in the Places to Live and Enjoy case in the Places Gallery.

The Theatre Royal, built between 1764 and 1766, is Britain’s oldest
surviving and continuously used theatre auditorium. Its design by Bristol
architect Thomas Paty incorporated a horseshoe-shaped auditorium,
copied in theatres around the world. The present theatre complex uses
the Coopers’ Hall, built in 1743, as a foyer.

“ There then appeared one of the finest
Scenes Imagination can conceive ... ”

From a letter, Sarah Farley’s Bristol Journal, 1766
Fry's 5 Boys chocolate

Now best known for
their Chocolate Cream and Turkish Delight, the famous firm of J.S. Fry &
Sons began with one Dr Joseph Fry producing chocolate in his premises on Small
Street in Bristol in the late 1750's.  By
the close of 19th century the company, trading as J.S. Fry & Sons, had
become a vast presence in the centre of the city.  In 1847 Fry's produced the first solid
chocolate bar for widespread consumption, and in 1902 they began selling the
UK's first milk chocolate - 3 years before Cadbury's Dairy Milk was
introduced.  Fry's branded their new
product as 5 Boys Milk Chocolate, linking it in the consumer mind to the
trusted 5 Boys (dark) chocolate they had already been producing for some
years.  The famous advert shows a young
boy's face passing through 5 expressions of 'Desperation, Pacification,
Expectation, Acclamation and Realization' as he eats his Fry's chocolate.   The image was reproduced as a postcard and
sold widely at food and industry exhibitions during the Edwardian period.  5 Boys chocolate was produced until the early
1970's.  Fry's is now part of Cadbury
Schweppes
Drawing of the slave ship Brooks

The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published in an
abolitionist broadside by William Elford and the Plymouth chapter of the
Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in November 1788. It was
published in Bristol the following year and would be redrawn and republished
many times in Britain and America in the years that followed. It came to
epitomize the cruelties of the trade in enslaved Africans of the 18th and 19th centuries
and the struggle to abolish that trade.

The Brooks itself was an actual people-carrying
slave ship, one of 26 surveyed in Liverpool, under instructions received from
the prime minister, William Pitt, by Captain Parrey of the Royal Navy. It is possible
that Pitt himself leaked Parrey’s findings to the Plymouth and London
abolitionist committees. The Brooks was chosen as an example by the
abolitionists because it was the first ship on Parrey’s list, well-known in the
trade and typical of this type of vessel.

The Plymouth committee 's broadside utilised a cut-away
diagram of the interior of the Brooks at the top. Immediately below the image
was the heading “Plan of an AFRICAN SHIP’S Lower Deck with NEGROES in the
proportion of only One to a Ton” and the image that would become another iconic
abolitionist image: a slave in chains, hands raised, asking, “Am I not a Man
and a Brother?”.
Richard Champion

Richard Champion (1743–1791), porcelain maker

In 1773 Richard Champion acquired the porcelain works
in Castle Green together with the patent for the manufacture of true, or
hard-paste, porcelain from William Cookworthy. The factory made mainly teawares
and figures but the venture was short-lived. Financial difficulties forced
Champion to sell the patent in 1781 and a year later he emigrated to America.
Bristol Royal Infirmary

Bristol was one of the first cities outside London to establish an infirmary to 'benefit the sick poor'.

It opened in converted brewery buildings next to Maudlin Lane in 1737 and was paid for by 78 wealthy donors. The infirmary quickly established a reputation for excellence in surgery with operations taking place in the wards until 1755, when a dedicated operating theatre opened.

This first hospital only had room for 34 inpatients and it soon became overcrowded. Despite being constantly altered and enlarged, its wards remained basic, overcrowded and unsanitary.

The need for a new building became apparent and between 1782 and 1814, the old infirmary was demolished and a new one built.

It was not until 1850 that Queen Victoria granted it a royal title, allowing it to be called Bristol "Royal" Infirmary.
Muller's Orhpanage

Müller's Orphanage was located first at Wilson Street, St. Paul's, and then in Ashley Down, Bristol. The latter, purpose-built location is synonymous with the orphanage and known as 'Muller Homes'. The children were divided between five Orphan Houses (No.1, No.2 and so on).

George Muller was a Prussian evangelist who opened the orphanage not only to improve the welfare of orphans, who at this time were commonly sent to the workhouse, but to prove that God answered prayer and would furnish him with the means to carry out this work. Muller claimed to have prayed for the funds and donations he eventually received

 Miller and his wife's work with orphans began in 1836 with the accommodation of thirty in their own home at 6 Wilson Street, St Paul's Bristol. Soon after, three more houses on the south side of Wilson Street were used to house 130 children: Number 1 Wilson Street was rented and opened from 28 November 1836, number 3 from 21 October 1837, and number 4 from early July 1843. Mr and Mrs Muller had meanwhile moved in to number 14.[1]

 Number 1 Wilson Street had previously been the childhood home of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910), the pioneering Bristol doctor and first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.[2] Numbers 1 & 2 Wilson Street are grade 2 listed late-Georgian houses that have been renovated and fitted with a plaque to honour Blackwell [3] after decades of dereliction (they had been on the register of buildings at risk)[4]. The rest of the terrace was demolished in 1994

 In 1845, after neighbours had complained "in kind and courteous terms" about the inconvenience caused by the presence of so many children in the area, Muller took this as a sign from God that he should purchase land to open a larger, purpose-built orphanage. Thus a home at Ashley Down, designed to house 300, was opened in 1849. By 26 May 1870, 1,722 children were being accommodated in five homes.

The school curriculum consisted of 'Scripture, reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, history, geography, Swedish drill and singing. Sewing and knitting were taught to both the girls and boys.

There were three highlights in the year for the orphans: Mr Müller's Birthday, on 27th September, Christmas, and the Purdown Outing. The Outing to Purdown, a mile and a half from Ashley Down, was the summer treat from the earliest days.

The annual outing to Purdown began in the morning, every child carrying a little cotton bag containing sweets and biscuits. The picnic lunch and tea was carried in large hampers and the water for drinking was taken in a water cart loaned by Bristol Corporation. The children from the five Houses mixed freely as they pleased all day, and in the evening the Director and other leading people came to the field. To mark the end of one more 'Pur Down', they released five balloons, one for each House.
Samuel Plimsoll

This person is on display in the Contributing Wrap in the People Gallery

(1824-1898)

Politician, Inventor

Born in Bristol in 1824, Plimsoll started off life as a brewery
clerk and then as a manager. In 1853, he tried his hand as a coal merchant, a
business which left him near destitute. During this period he lived in one of
London’s lodging houses for working men, where he gained a great sympathy for
the struggles of the poor. After picking himself back up, he joined the liberal
party and in 1868 was elected MP for Derby.

He used his position to campaign for the rights of
sailors, railing against so-called “coffin ships” – overloaded and unseaworthy
vessels which often claimed the lives of the men on board. Writing the
acclaimed work “Our Seamen” in 1872, he presented this to every Member of
Parliament, and by the following year, a royal commission had been set up to
look into the matter.  Their findings
informed the Unseaworthy Vessels Bill. Plimsoll found the bill inadequate, but
he was persuaded to support it and so, despite the influence ship-owners
wielded in parliament, Plimsoll’s determination and overwhelming public support
for the bill meant that in 1875 the Merchant Shipping Act was amended. This
gave strong powers of inspection to the Board of Trade and introduced a mark
onto the hull of all ships to ensure they were not overloaded - the Plimsoll
line.

Plimsoll left
parliament in 1880, but continued to campaign for shipping. He died in 1898. He
is remembered today by the mark he campaigned for, still present on the hull of
every ship, and busts of him erected in London, and in Bristol looking out over
the harbour from Hotwells.
Abolition of Slavery

Campaigner Thomas Clarkson came to Bristol in 1787 to gather evidence for the Committee for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. He spent weeks meeting and talking to as many people involved in the trade as he could. The information he supplied helped William Wilberforce and others to argue in Parliament for abolition. The campaign took 20 years to achieve the partial victory of abolition of the trade itself, and another 25 to abolish slavery on British plantations.
Massive Attack

This information is displayed in the creating Case in the People Gallery

Massive Attack, ‘Bristol Sound’ musicians

A huge variety of musical styles thrive in Bristol. In the 1980s many of these influences came together in what the music press called the Bristol Sound. A loose group of dj's and musicians from a collective called the Wild Bunch formed Massive Attack, a band fronted by Robert Del Naja (Delge /3D), Grant Marshall (Daddy G) and Andrew Vowles (Mushroom). They enjoyed considerable success with their first album ‘Blue Lines’ and its single ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ and still have a strong following over 30 years later.
Bristol Rebellion

The Bristol Rebellion was an rebellion that occurred between 1312 and 1316. it arose from disagreement between the mayor and the burgess of Bristol and the Constable of the royal castle Lord Bartholomew de Baldesmere. The resulting rebellion lead to the construction of stone walls between the castle and the town as well as the townsfolk laying siege to the castle. The rebellion ended with a week long siege ordered by Edward II.

## Causes

Baldesmere was appointed Constable of the royal castle by Edward II 21st August 1307. The first years of his office were unremarkable but must have causeed resentment with some of the merchants of Bristol s by 1312 they had divided into factions some for and some against Baldamere.

### Sources:

http://edwardthesecond.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/rebellion-in-bristol-1.html

http://edwardthesecond.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/rebellion-in-bristol-2.html
Wherries & Ferries

The Ferry, 2001, by Beryl Cook (1926-2008).

This lively scene was inspired by Beryl Cook's fondness for Bristol's waterfront. In the background are buildings that can be seen along the Floating Harbour. A ferry service transports commuters and sightseers along the harbour seven days per week.

Until fairly recently ferries took passengers and goods from one side of the river to the other between two fixed points. Wherries, on the other hand, took passengers and goods up and down it, from Bristol Bridge to Cumberland Basin, stopping at any of a number of places, like a request bus. Bristol's modern ferries have more in common with wherries because their main role is to move passengers up and down the harbour.
Samuel Stuchbury

Samuel Stutchbury was the curator of the Bristol
Institution during its most exciting period, the 1830s. As the main officer of
a serious scientific research centre run by committed amateurs, he presided
over the visit of the British Association in 1836, the unwrapping of Egyptian
mummies for research, the discovery of pliosaur and ichthyosaur fossils and the
identification of a newly discovered species, the gorilla. The Institution
later became Bristol Museum.
Dennis Stinchcombe

This person is on display in the Contributing Wrap in the People Gallery

(1955 - )

As director of The Riverside Youth Project, Dennis has encouraged many young
people to reach their potential by involving them in sports and education
projects. Under Dennis’s leadership, the club, formerly known as the Broad Plain Boys Club, has received national
recognition for the positive impact it is having on young people from
inner-city areas of Bristol who might otherwise lack direction and focus or who
might be excluded from school.

Dennis’ involvement with young people has been extensive and productive: he
worked 20 years as a Senior Residential Social Worker, including Housemaster,
at Kingswood Training School;15 years as Officer-in-Charge of the Home Office
Junior and Senior Mixed Attendance Centres in Bristol;10 years as Centre
Director of the Riverside Youth and Education Project; 33 years as
Leader-in-Charge of the Broad Plain Club,15 years as Honorary Medical Registrar
for the Western Counties Area of the Amateur Boxing Association and Life
Vice-President of the Cadbury Heath Youth Football Club.

Dennis was awarded an
MBE in 2004 and an honorary master’s degree from the University of Bristol in
2010 for his service to young people.

In 2014, the national media reported how Dennis had
moved a new mural, ‘Mobile Lovers’, painted by the internationally renowned
artist Banksy, from a wall in Clement Street near to the Riverside Project,
which sparked an ownership dispute with Bristol City Council. Dennis’ intention
was to prevent the artwork being damaged or stolen and to raise money for the
Riverside Youth Project by inviting the public to view it for a donation. Banksy took the unusual step of
writing a letter to Dennis stating “As far as I’m concerned you can have it.”
The youth club sold the artwork to a private collector for £403,000. Dennis
welcomed the sale and thanked Banksy for saving the cash-starved youth club.
Emergency Marker

This information is on display in the Moving by Emergency Vehicles display in Places Gallery

Pillars like this were installed around Avonmouth Docks in the 1940s so that incidents could be reported quickly. They were mainly used by the Docks police, but fell into disuse when radios were issued in the late 1960s. It was manufactured by Reliance Telephones Ltd.in about 1940.