Bristol Architecture Tea Towels

Ditch the placcy bags and display your Bristol pride all in one handy accessory.
This quality unbleached cotton tote features the BT Tower design on the side and a hand-stitched artic circles label detail.

N.B the totes are with a high-quality transfer- not screenprinted like the tea towels, but they are just as lovely.

The four cranes outside Bristol's Industrial Museum are the only survivors from around 42 cranes that used to operate in the city docks, many were very close together. Most of the cranes were dismantled and sold for scrap.

The four left are electric cranes built by Stothert and Pitt of Bath and they can carry up to three tons (except for crane 32, which can carry up to ten tons).

The first shot tower in the world was built on Redcliffe Hill by plumber William Watts. In 1782 he invented a way to make perfectly round lead shot by pouring molten lead through a sieve and allowing it to drop from a height into water. When his tower was demolished for road widening in 1968, it was replaced by this 140-foot tall reinforced concrete landmark. It no longer makes shot, but as a listed building will be preserved as part of Bristol’s skyline.

This tea towel is in production and will be available soon.
Please contact me if you want to pre-order or have any questions.

The BT Tower tea towel has now sold out, bar a couple left at the HERE gallery in Stokes Croft. The next two designs in the series are in production and will be available here soon.
Please contact me if you would like more information- or to put a tower request in for the next ones in the series!

Thanks
Amy

Designed in 1961 the Colston Tower in the centre of Bristol was not completed until 1973. The 18 floor, 205ft tower sits on a podium designed to maintain the building line of Colston Avenue and respect the classical facade of St. Mary's Church. It was once described as a kind of giant bookend stopping the Centre from bleeding away into Broadmead."

Designed, printed and manufactured in the UK.
100% cotton

This design has now sold out. (There are a handful left at HERE gallery in Stokes Croft but be quick!)

Built in 1970 and situated on a hill in Lockleaze just north of Bristol city centre Pur Down BT Tower is one of twelve reinforced concrete towers owned by BT in the UK. It is used mainly for point to point microwave links and is also used for radio broadcasting in the Bristol area.
For Bristolians heading back on the M32 the sight of the BT tower is the one of the first signs that you are nearly home!

Designed, printed and manufactured in the UK.
100%cotton