1935 St Augustine’s Bridge

1935 Bristol ice-cream seller at St Augustine’s Bridge

A sight we will never see again - a ship tied up at St Augustine’s Bridge! This charming photograph dates from June 1935, a year before work began on covering in this stretch of the River Frome. The equipment may have changed, but an ice cream seller was as popular then as now, and an indulgent grandad has dipped into his pocket and bought his little granddaughter an ice cream cone. 

The view captures the Hippodrome, boasting a generous ‘three hours programme’. The establishment was well justified in advertising itself as ‘Bristol’s centre of entertainment’.