Bristol Panel Signal Box, built on the old Platform 14

* 39 ( Skinners ) Signal Regiment ( Volunteers ) Bristol

** 57 City and County of Bristol ) Signal Squadron ( Volunteers )

* 39th ( Skinners ) Signal Regiment ( Volunteers ) Bristol

** 57 ( City and County of Bristol ) Signal Squadron ( Volunteers )

Many military units and civilian groups provide support for Ten-Tors and the Jubilee Challenge including the Royal Wessex Yeomanry, Exeter UOTC, 243 Field Hospital RAMC, 6th Battalion The Rifles, two Sea King HC4 helicopters from 848 Naval Air Squadron, 39 ( Skinners ) Signal Regiment, two Gazelle helicopters from 7 Regiment Army Air Corps ( Volunteers ), Bristol UOTC and the Dartmoor Rescue Group.

The mixed gauge was then laid through Box Tunnel on 16 May 1875 and so standard gauge trains could run from Bristol all the way to London, although the broad gauge was retained west of Temple Meads and through trains from London to Penzance and other stations in Devon and Cornwall continued to be formed of broad gauge trains.

Box Tunnel is to be electrified with catenary as part of the GWML electrification scheme which includes service to Bristol Temple Meads and is scheduled for completion around 2016.

From Wootton Bassett there are two different routes to Bristol, firstly via Box Tunnel and secondly via.

Throughout 2003, Sneddon and his band played a university tour, the Box Live and Summer XS tours, headlined at the ' Pop on the Rock ' music festival in the Channel Islands, and supported Bryan Adams in Bristol and Elton John in Hull.

Collection of British pillar boxes at the Inkpen Post Box Museum, near Taunton, Somerset-since re-located to Oakham Treasures, Gordano, Bristol, UK

* June 30 – Great Western Railway of England completed throughout between London and Bristol Temple Meads railway station, including Box Tunnel.

The UK company, Video Jukebox Network International Limited, was formed in 1991 and the channel was launched in April 1992 as The Box in the early days of cable television, carried by four operators United Artists, Telewest in London and Bristol, Nynex in the south of England, and Videotron which is also based in London.

On November 6, 1827, Alcott started teaching in Bristol, Connecticut, still using the same methods he used in Cheshire, but opposition from the community surfaced quickly ; he was unemployed by March 1828.

Although little is known about his early life, he was likely born in Bristol, England.

The 17th-century rise of Britain's American colonies and the rapid 18th-century expansion of the Atlantic slave trade had made Bristol an important international sea port, and Teach was most likely raised in what was the second-largest city in England.

Clement Martyn Doke ( 16 May 1893 in Bristol, United Kingdom – 24 February 1980 in East London, South Africa ) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages.

Bluebird K7 was fitted with a lighter and more powerful Bristol Orpheus engine, taken from a Folland Gnat jet aircraft, which developed of thrust.

It was examined in 2009, then brought to Bristol, England, for tests in 2010.

" The investigations at Bristol, applying isotope tests on tooth enamel, checked whether she was born and brought up in Wessex and Mercia, as written history has indicated.

Though women's meetings had been held in London for the last ten years, this was an innovation in Bristol and the north-west of England, which many there felt went too far.

By 1746, an integrated brass mill was working at Warmley near Bristol.

Considered because of his age a good candidate for officer training, Whale joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps in October 1915 and was stationed in Bristol.

Locke was born on 29 August 1632, in a small thatched cottage by the church in Wrington, Somerset, about twelve miles from Bristol.

He was based at RAAF Williamtown where he worked on maintaining Bristol Beaufighters at No 5 Operational Training Unit ( 5OTU ).

In 1933, after a violent encounter with the recently installed Nazis, he left for France and was then able to use family connections to flee to Bristol, England, arriving September 24, 1933.

When the Bank Street ground was temporarily closed by bailiffs in 1902, club captain Harry Stafford raised enough money to pay for the club's next away game at Bristol City and found a temporary ground at Harpurhey for the next reserves game against Padiham.

Poul Anderson was born on November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, of Scandinavian parents.

He was likewise awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the Universities of Bristol, Belfast, Melbourne, British Columbia, McGill, Montreal, Royal University of Malta, Laval, Quebec, Tasmania, Cambridge, Harvard, Leeds, Adelaide, Queensland, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Drury and California.

Its epicentre was at 58. 160S 21. 893W, ENE ( 73 degrees ) of Bristol Island.

Robert took Stephen back to Gloucester, where the king met with the Empress Matilda, and was then moved to Bristol Castle, traditionally used for holding high-status prisoners.

Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury was unwilling to declare Matilda queen so rapidly, however, and a delegation of clergy and nobles, headed by Theobald, travelled to see Stephen in Bristol and consult about their moral dilemma: should they abandon their oaths of fealty to the king?

As the hip hop scene matured in Bristol and musical trends evolved further toward acid jazz and house in the late ' 80s, the golden era of the soundsystem was ending.

Tricky was born in Knowle West, Bristol, England to a Jamaican father and a mixed-race Ghanaian-English mother.

Traditionally, in Celtic and Germanic Europe, the feast of Samhain ( called Allelieweziel in DeitschSchreiwer, Robert L. < i > A Brief Introduction to Urglaawe .</ i > Bristol, PA: Deitscherei. com, 2009 .</ ref >) was specially associated with the deceased, and, in these countries, it was still customary to set a place for them at table on this day until relatively recent times.

This was owned by Vickers, English Electric and Bristol ( holding 40 %, 40 % and 20 % respectively ).

New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf, Thomas Telford and most notably John McAdam, with the first ' macadamised ' stretch of road being Marsh Road at Ashton Gate, Bristol in 1816.

* Bristol Brabazon, an airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 to fly a large number of passengers on transatlantic routes from the United Kingdom to the United States.

The first modern-day hot air balloon to be built in the United Kingdom ( UK ) was the Bristol Belle in 1967.

Between the beginning of 1952 and the end of 1955, ATL built 50 wing sections for Bristol Aircraft.

The seven resulting designs ranged from the giant Bristol Brabazon, of which only the prototype was built, to the turbine-propelled Vickers Viscount, of which 445 were built.

The first batch equipped the two training schools as well as demonstration aircraft, and the aircraft, nicknamed the Bristol Boxkite went on to become a commercial success, 76 being built in all.

Official War Office policy was to purchase only aircraft designed by the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and Bristol had already built a number of their B. E. 2 two-seater reconnaissance aircraft.

During this time Bristol was noted for its preference for steel airframes, using members built up from high-tensile steel strip rolled into flanged sections rather than the light alloys more generally used in aircraft construction.

The abbey's next organ was built in 1836 by John Smith of Bristol, to a specification of thirty stops over three manuals and pedals.

The original terminal station was built in 1839-41 for the Great Western Railway ( GWR ), the first passenger railway in Bristol, and was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the railway's engineer.

Between 1859 and 1875, 23 new engines were built in the workshops attached to the shed, including several of the distinctive Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-4T locomotives.

The GWR built a goods shed on the north side of the station adjacent to the Floating Harbour, with a small dock for transhipment of goods to barges ( though not to sea-going ships as the wharf was upstream of Bristol Bridge ).

Bristol Parkway was built in the 1970s to give Bristol a station on the railway from London to South Wales, which passes just north of the city.

An attempt to build Brunel's design in 1831 was stopped by the Bristol Riots, and the revised version of his designs was built after his death, and completed in 1864.

It was built in 1933 by the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol for use at the Lamport Ironstone mines railway near Brixworth, Northamptonshire.

The answer for Bristol was, with the co-operation of London interests, to build a line of their own ; a railway built to unprecedented standards of excellence to out-perform the lines being constructed to the north-west.

Bristol Yacht Building Company built minesweepers for the United States Navy during World War II.

The Delaware Canal was built in 1831 and connected Bristol to Easton, 60 miles to the north.

This was built on a stretched Ace chassis with coil suspension all around and a 2. 2-litre Bristol engine.

France, Germany, Russia and Japan largely built licenced or locally improved versions of the Armstrong Siddeley, Bristol, Wright, or Pratt & Whitney radials.