Bristol Then & Now

Then – Philadelphia Street (1950s) Broad Weir to Milk Street - demolished and built over post-war for Broadmead Shopping Centre vs Now – Broadmead (08/07/2014) After the war, in the wipe-the-slate-clean mood that swept Britain, what survived of Broadmead was demolished. It was rebuilt as a homogenised colony of shops, a million square feet of Fifties retailing, spread in monotonous low-rise buildings clad, in a vainglorious attempt to evoke the past, in Bath stone.