Bristol between the wars

Castle Street

The street died on 24 November 1940, when the vast majority of shops were destroyed or so badly: damaged they had to be demolished. Some of the shops survived the war and continued trading into the 1960s (in most cases alternative premises in Broadmead then became available). The last shop to trade was Montague Burton at No.4, who vacated the premises in August 1964 and it was demolished in May 1965.