Bristol Beacon
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Bristol Beacon, previously Colston Hall, is a concert hall and Grade II listed building on Colston Street, Bristol, England. It is owned by Bristol City Council. Since 2011, it has been managed by Bri
The 2009 foyer block
The Great House (then Colston's Hospital for boys) on St Augustine's back, Bristol, 1720s
The Bristol Byzantine-style façade at the front of Colston Hall
The new foyer alongside Colston Hall, which opened in 2009
Edward Colston
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Edward Colston was an English merchant, slave trader, philanthropist and Tory Member of Parliament.
Bristol Beacon
…closed in 2018 for repair and refurbishment work, and reopened on 30 November 2023. Formerly named after the slave trader, merchant and philanthropist Edward Colston, who founded Colston's School on the site in the early 18th century, it was renamed after a number of years of campaigning because of Colston's ties…
Jonathan Richardson Portrait of Edward Colston
Colston's Almshouses
Cromwell House, Mortlake, west London, where Colston died in 1721. He was buried in Bristol.
Engraving of Colston's monument in All Saints' Church, Bristol from Bristol Past and Present (1882)