The untold stories of the working people of South Bristol - from the mines of 100 years ago to the tobacco factories of 50 years ago - are finally to be told in a big history festival that begins south of the river on Thursday.
The South Bristol History Festival is being organised by three of the area’s local councillors, who say that the history made south of the river has been neglected or overlooked in the wider story Bristol’s establishment has told itself over the years.
So the factories and mines, workhouses and developments that shaped generations of South Bristol people over the past two centuries have barely featured in the museums and official histories of Bristol.
