Speedwell, Bristol

Speedwell
Speedwell
 Speedwell shown within Bristol
Population 2,342 
OS grid referenceST635745
Unitary authorityBristol
Ceremonial countyBristol
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town BRISTOL
Postcode district BS5, BS15
Dialling code 0117
Police Avon and Somerset
Fire Avon
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentBristol East
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Coordinates: 51°28′06″N 2°31′36″W / 51.4682°N 2.5268°W / 51.4682; -2.5268

Speedwell Swimming Baths (after closure).
New housing on the site of the TA barracks, Whitefield Road.

Speedwell is an area of east Bristol, Part of the Hillfields ward. It has a mixture of residential and industrial land.

The 2014 population esyimate of the population of Speedwell was 2,342.[1]

The one School in the area is Bristol Brunel Academy, previously known as Speedwell Technology College and Speedwell Secondary School. It was Bristol's first specialist school - a technology college since 1997. In 2007 the Academy moved into all-new purpose built buildings and the old school buildings were demolished.[2]

History

The Speedwell area had many small coal mines in the 19th century.[3][4] In the 1970s some of these old workings had to be stabilised in the area of Speedwell secondary school. A goods only railway connected the collieries and the Peckett and Sons locomotive works (also known as the Atlas Locomotive Works) with the Midland railway at Kingswood junction.[5] In the early 1970s, shortly after Avon county council was formed, approximately half of Speedwell secondary school burnt down, the school was partly rebuilt. A number of 'temporary' prefab houses, built in the housing shortage after the World War II, existed in the west side of the suburb into the 21st century.[6]

References

  1. "Mid-2014 Population Estimates by Lower Layer Super Output Area". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  2. "Remarkable turnaround for Speedwell school". Bristol Post. 9 September 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  3. "Speedwell Pit Coal Mine". Adit Now. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  4. Penny, John. "Page 1 Regional Historian, Issue 7, Summer 2001 King Coal's Final Victim a reconstruction of the events surrounding the last fatal accident in a Bristol colliery – August 1932" (PDF). University of the West of England. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  5. Lee, M.J. "Peckett & Sons ltd". Industrial Railway Record. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  6. "Milestone as tenants move into 100th Bristol prefab replacement". Bristol Post. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2015.


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