Museum of Bristol - What's Your Bristol?

What's Your Bristol?

What's the most quirky thing you have discovered about Bristol?...What's the worst job you've ever heard of in the city? ... What's your happiest or saddest memory in Bristol? ......

We want you to dust down your memories and contribute your stories to the new Museum of Bristol by completing our online form.

The new museum will open in 2011 on the harbourside and will tell the lively and fascinating story of Bristol's 1,000 years of history, it's people and its place in the world.  To help us do this we need your memories and stories.

Get involved

Have a look at the questions below and see if you have any stories around those subjects.  You can answer as many questions as you like.  If you wish to contribute your stories, you can do so using the online form.  

Please also use the online form if you are contributing your wartime memories.

Please use a new form for each question.  

Using your stories

All stories will be kept for the Museum of Bristol.  We will follow up as many stories as we can, and are very grateful to all those who take time to give us their contributions.  If we decide to follow up your story we will contact you shortly.

Here are the questions...

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Bristol's buildings, transforming the city

1.  Do you remember a much-loved building or feature opening or being demolished? 
2.  Which buildings in Bristol have had a significant impact on your life and why?
3.  Have you or your family been involved in changing the built environment of Bristol?

Can you answer any of these questions? If so, please use the online form.

Please use a new form for each question.

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Moving through the city

4.  What was your most memorable journey through Bristol?
5.  What is your usual daily journey?  Where do you start, where do you go, what is your route, how long does it take and what mode of transport do you use?
6.  Have you or your family worked in public or trade-related transport?

Can you answer any of these questions? If so, please use the online form.

Please use a new form for each question.

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Connecting to Bristol

7. To what parts of Bristol do you or your family feel connected - to a specific place, community or an   organisation?
8.  How could your life be mapped on the city?  Where do you live, study or work?
9.  Where have you laughed?
10. Where was the last place you kissed someone?

Can you answer any of these questions? If so, please use the online form.

Please use a new form for each question.

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Discovering Bristol

11. What is the most quirky thing you have discovered about Bristol?
12.  Have you or your family worked or been somewhere unusual in the city?
13.  Is there a place or building you would like to get access to in Bristol?

Can you answer any of these questions? If so, please use the online form.

Please use a new form for each question.

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Belonging to Bristol

14.  When and why did you or your family come to Bristol?
15.  Did you feel welcomed?
16.  At what point did you or your family feel that you belonged in Bristol?

Can you answer any of these questions? If so, please use the online form.

Please use a new form for each question.

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Business and trading

17.  Have you or your family made money from trading goods in or through Bristol?
18.  What do you remember about the docks when they were in Bristol?
19.  Have you or your family set up your own business in Bristol?

Can you answer any of these questions? If so, please use the online form.

Please use a new form for each question.

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Creating and working

20. What have you or your family created in Bristol?  Was it for love or money?
21.  Were you working in Bristol during the Second World War?

Can you answer any of these questions? If so, please use the online form.

Please use a new form for each question.

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Celebrating

22.  Where have you or your family had a good time in Bristol?
23.  What's your happiest memory in Bristol?
24.  What's your saddest memory in Bristol?

Can you answer any of these questions? If so, please use the online form.

Please use a new form for each question.

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Challenging times

25.  What or who have you or your family challenged in Bristol?
26.  What or who do you think should be challenged in Bristol?
27.  What challenges have you or your family faced in Bristol?

Can you answer any of these questions? If so, please use the online form.

Please use a new form for each question.

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