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Bristol Exchange


Bristol 19, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia.

Bristol Exchange , Corn St (Old City)

The country’s only remaining Georgian Exchange. Did you note the two-second hand minutes when there were local times; the black minute hand showed Greenwich Mean Time and the red minute hand was Bristol time! In front are the four nails on which merchants did their transactions, the earliest is c1560, and where the British saying to pay on the nail supposedly derived (by birbeck)

3 thoughts on “Bristol Exchange”

  1. hmm, it's a small world, isn't it? what did you study, if it's not a secret?

    I gathered that Bristol's art scene is quite special..?

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