Speedwell, Bristol
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Speedwell is an area of east Bristol, Part of the Hillfields ward. It has a mixture of residential and industrial land.
The 2014 population estimate 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
- ^ "Mid-2014 Population Estimates by Lower Layer Super Output Area". Bristol City Council. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ "Bristol Brunel Academy". WilkinsonEyre. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ^ "Speedwell Pit Coal Mine". Adit Now. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lee, M.J. "Peckett & Sons ltd". Industrial Railway Record. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ "Milestone as tenants move into 100th Bristol prefab replacement". Bristol Post. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
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