History Walk: Bedminster Coalmines

The Greater Bedminster area was once covered by coal mines stretching from East Street to Long Ashton.  This walk will take you around the sites of nine of the mines, each of which have their own stories, many ending in tragedy for the mineworkers.

Although there is little left above ground now, this will soon change with plans to memorialise the memories of the thousands of almost forgotten working class Bristolians who worked, and often died, in the deep pits below the surface of Bedminster, Southville, and Ashton.