Winter 2010 - Shipshape Magazine Bristol

and finally...
1The Finzels Reach
development covers
an area of over
1,000,000 square
feet and is located on
the former Courage
brewery site
2Courage brewery
closed in 1999,
prompting an
10 things
8,000-name
petition from members
of the Campaign for
Real Ale (Camra)
3Before Courage
took over the site ... you never knew about the
in 1961, George’s Harbourside’s latest multi-millionpound
development, Finzels Reach6Archaeologists 4As reported in Shipshape, 5The site is named after
from Oxford
had been brewing
there since 1788
the development
Conrad Finzel, the
Archaeology, CgMs and Bristol
includes a state of the
German-born owner
City Council have discovered a
art pedestrian and
of the Counterslip
13th-century wood-lined well,
cyclist bridge – Mobius Bridge Sugar Refinery that was based a crossbow trigger and a 12th-century
(left) – which will link Finzels on part of the site. The refinery string instrument called a rebec
Reach with Castle Park. The was said to be the largest in on the site. The excavation was
bridge is expected to be finished the country and, at its peak, the largest archaeological dig ever
by December 2012
employed over 700 men undertaken in the city centre
7 It will cost over £250m to complete
8
The Generator
Reach donated 500 mugs to St Peter’s
building, a historically
Hospice to be sold for £1 in stores across the city
protected part of the
– following in the footsteps of ‘The Good Conrad
site, powered Bristol’s
Finzel’, who reportedly gave at least £10,000 every
trams until the 1920s 10Finzels
year to Muller’s Orphanage in Bristol
9The scheme
includes 92
affordable
housing units
thirty
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