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Index
Cover
Preface
Introduction to the 1997 edition
Introduction to the 2012 edition
Acknowledgements
Bristol: narrow streets, narrow minds
A NEW BRIDGE FOR BRISTOL
Bristol’s ‘Golden Age’ loses its lustre
‘AN INDUSTRIAL TOWN BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION’
WAR AND FINANCIAL CRISIS
Late September 1793
‘TOLLS TO LET’
THE BRISTOL CORPORATION – ‘A SELF-EXISTING EVIL’
‘A TOLL-KEEPER’S LOT IS NOT A HAPPY ONE’
‘Saturday nights... are the best adapted for a riot’
BRISTOL’S VIOLENT CENTURY
LAW ENFORCEMENT
‘REMEMBER, THEY FIRED WITHOUT MY ORDERS OR CONSENT.’
‘LORD HAVE MERCY’
‘JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE’
‘NO TOLL! NO TOLL! NO TOLL!’
Bloody Monday
‘Murder by person, or persons unknown’
‘PUBLIC TRANQUILLITY’ IS RESTORED.
Poets and pamphleteers
‘SUSPICIOUS AND PREGNANT WITH THE MOST ALARMING MISCHIEF’
‘GIVE ’EM BRISTOL BRIDGE’
Afterword
Henry Bengough (d. 1818)
George Daubeny (1742 – 1806)
Edward Long Fox (1761 – 1835)
Wintour Harris (d. 1818)
John Noble (d. 1826)
James Morgan (d. 1794)
John Rose (d. 1816?)
Sam Worrall (d.1821)
Bristol Bridge
Select Bibliography
Bibliographical Abbreviations
Copyright
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