Place Somerset Square -- Mary Newton, Chatterton's sister
Somerset Square
Chatterton’s elder sister, Mary Newton (1749-1804), lived here. She was duped into giving...
Place A marriage of pantisocrats
Both Southey and Coleridge were married in St Mary Redcliffe. Coleridge to Sarah Fricker on the 4th October 1795, and Southey to Edith...
Place The Learned Pig
Here stood The Plume of Feathers Inn. The Bristol Journal of 13th August 1785 reported that: ‘in the large and commodious room...
Place Sea Walls
In his Commonplace Book, Southey writes of an idea he has for a poem about St Vincent’s Rocks, on the cliffs below: ‘it might begin by...
Place Joseph Cottle's bookshop
Born in Bristol and educated in Hanham, Joseph Cottle established himself as a bookseller, printer and publisher in the heart of the...
Place John Pinney's house
John Pinney, merchant venturer, built this house on returning from the West Indies. He made a fortune on plantations and continued to...
Place Chilcompton
Coleridge's first Somerset poem was written as a result of his walking tour with Southey in August 1794. From Bristol Coleridge and...
Place Quarter Jacks at Christ Church
Here, in Christ Church with St Ewen, Robert Southey was baptised. He wrote how he often "stopt with my satchel on my back to see treet,...
Place The Pneumatic Institute, Dowry Square
In 1799, Dr Beddoes established the Pneumatic Institute which specialised in incurable diseases. Along with Davy, Beddoes's...
Place The Old Library
King Street: the Old Library, build 1738-40, was used by Coleridge, Southey and Humphrey Davy. It replaced an older library on the same...