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The Blackboy Inn, on Blackboy Hill
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Photograph of The Blackboy Inn, on Blackboy Hill, in Bristol. The are several local myths about this public house.One is that slaves were sold nearby, another is that it is near to where the black servants came when they were not working. There were many public houses named Blackboy in Bristol in the 18th century, during the time of the slave trade. They could have been named after King Charles II, who was known as the Blackboy because of his dark hair and complexion.This pub may have been named after him, or after a lost group of stones on the nearby hill, or even after a racehorse!
Creator: BCC Museum
Date: 2003
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Photograph of The Blackboy Hill
Description:
There are several local myths about the Blackboy Hill, a popular name for the top part of Whiteladies Road. One myth has it that slaves were auctioned here, another states that the hill was where black servants came together when they were not working. One local myth has it that there was once a stone at the top of the hill marking the site of local slave sales. There is no written records to support this. There is also a myth that tells of a black servant who worked in The White House at the top of Blackboy Hill. The hill may well be named after the public house situated there, called Blackboy Inn. The origins of the hill’s name are unclear.
Creator: BCC Museum
Date: 2003
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Artwork by Annie Lovejoy
Description:
Stirring at the International Festival of the Sea by Annie Lovejoy, 1996. The artist provided the following project description:
Stirring at the International Festival of the Sea was a public art intervention for the International Festival of the Sea (in Bristol) 1996. 40,000 sugar packets were distributed in cafes, bars and hotels within the festival boundary. An intervention negotiated to draw attention to an essential aspect of Bristols maritime history.
Bristols maritime heritage is a multi-layered construct. We remind ourselves of historical realities when we begin to peel away layers and look closely at seemingly innocuous things like packets of sugar.
Creatively this idea encourages us to acknowledge the tensions and discomfort that has so much been a part of the historical trade in sugar. Eddie Chambers.
It is an idea which connects history with the present by turning a familiar commodity into a symbol. Martin Lister, University of the West of England.
The project was popular, many packets being kept as souvenirs.
Creator: Annie Lovejoy
Date: 1996
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Entry for Yabbicom
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Entry for Yabbicom, in Matthews Bristol Directory
Creator: Yabbicom
Date: 1812
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
The boiling house
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Picture: The boiling house, from Ten Views of Antigua , by W Clark, 1823.
By permission of the British Library
Creator: Clark
Date: 1823
Copyright: Copyright The British Library
Object ID:(BL Shelfmark: 1786.c.9 plate VI)
Clearing the Ground
Description:
Picture: Clearing the Ground from Ten Views in Antigua , by W Clark.
By permission of the British Library
Creator: W Clark
Date: 1823
Copyright: Copyright The British Library
Object ID:(BL Shelfmark:1786.c.9 plate III)
Host Street Refinery
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Photograph of the building Host Street Refinery today.
Creator: David Emeney
Date: 1825
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
The Steadfast West Indiaman
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The Steadfast West Indiaman, belonging to Thomas Daniel and Son, in the Mud Dock , by TLS Rowbotham. Thomas Daniel was one of Bristol’s biggest sugar merchants.
Creator: TLS Rowbotham
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:M2948
Stool
Description:
Carved wooden stool with geometric designs, House of Winds .Made by Asante people, in Ghana. A stool is often given as a gift to mark important stages in a person’s life, such as marriage.
Creator: Asante
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:E 4837
Packing tobacco leaf in barrels
Description:
Detail, from a tobacco wrapper of Joseph Haynes, London, showing slaves packing tobacco leaf in barrels.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Creator: Joseph Haynes
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
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