Richard,
Sorry I haven't replied to this before.
I've just seen the image which you posted. It looks like a section of a print
of a panorama of the city, a colour copy of which is in the Bristol City
Museum. The section shown is about half the depth and a quarter of the width of
the original. The cathedral is near the top right-hand corner, with Canon's
Marsh just in front and the River Frome and Queen Square to its right.
The colliery at bottom left is actually Dean Lane (also known as Bedminster).
The pit was owned by the the Bennett family and was closed in (I think) 1907,
by which time the family's company, Bedminster, Easton, Kingswood and Parkfield
Collieries Ltd owned most of the collieries in Bristol. Their success didn't
last as the company was in receivership by 1914. The site of Dean Lane is now a
park, with a bandstand built over the top of the shaft.
Malago Vale Colliery would have been directly below Dean Lane, but is off the
edge of the original picture. I don't know anything about the Capper Pass
Works, but various kinds of metal-working seem to have been fairly common
industries in that part of Bristol.
Keith Ramsey
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