Archaeologists digging up a car park in South Bristol have unearthed the full extent of one of the city’s most ‘secretive’ companies - less than 60 years after it closed down.
The team from Wessex Archaeology were given access to the old NCP car park on Dalby Avenue in Bedminster - and discovered, almost entirely intact at ground level, what was left of the site of the Bedminster Smelting Works.
And the below ground discoveries are now helping to shed more light on what was one of South Bristol’s darkest - and dirtiest - chapters, when a highly-polluting chemical works operated for more than 100 years, surrounded by people’s houses.
