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Adults
£3.50 Children £2.50
Family
ticket £8 (2 adults 2 children)
WINTER
2 p.m on Weekends (Saturday and Sunday)
Any time, by
Appointment, during the week
for parties of 6 or more
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
was founded by Bristolians. Admiral Penn, the father of William, is buried in the
city.
Likewise,
Charleston, South Carolina, was
founded by a Bristolian. Sir John Yeamans' family
ran the brewery and his brother was Bristol's Mayor in 1669.
Twenty years after the United States of America was
created in 1776 the first U.S. Consulate in England was established in Bristol. The
trade ties were that important.
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Blackbeard the Pirate, who blockaded
Charles Town and was a frequent visitor to Philadelphia, was from
Bristol.
See his haunts, learn about what happened to his skull, and hear the
surprising story of his enormous ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge; how
he acquired it from a French slaver, where it was originally built and
where it is today.
Governor Woodes Rogers,
who eradicated
most of the piracy in British America lived in these streets.
Bartholemew Roberts,
the Welsh pirate, and many other Caribbean pirates sailed as crew
members from Bristol in some of the 160 ships that sailed between
Bristol and America in the early 1700s.
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John Cabot
discovered the North
American continent and sailed from Bristol. You will see where his wife
lived, the church used by Cabot and the replica of his ship (if it is in
port). You will learn how America got its name, named after a Bristolian,
Richard Amerike.
Robinson Crusoe and Long John Silver
are
not entirely fictional, and their marks are in these city streets.
Some thirty slave ships sailed from Bristol
during the 1700s. This appalling traffic has left its mark in these city
streets.
What is the origin
of the skull and crossbones?
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