[Band playing in a parade on what is possibly Cedar Street]
Based upon the trees it was summer, the cars on the street indicated that it was early twentieth century.
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[Bannister's Grave Stone business flooded at the foot of Mill Street after a hurricane]
This is at the foot of Mill Street across from the Mill Street Wharf at the Delaware River. Bannister’s Grave Stone business is in full view. Across the street is the King George II inn. Photograph was taken in August 1955 when a hurricane caused water to overflow from the river.
[Bannister's headstone business, flooded]
Tents are vendors and barbecue sites. The Mill Street parking lot was one-third filled with the tables and tents.
Standing (from left to right): Joey Curran, Bob Coleman, “Jersey” McDonnall, Edw. Minster, (Manager) Harry Arrison, Rickerts, Joe McDonnall. Seated: Horace Young, “Doc” Potts, Harry Hoeding, John Coleman and Pem. Minster. Photograph published in Bristol Courier, January 22, 1954.
[Baseball, Kaiser Cargo Incorporated Fleetwings Division, Bristol, Pennsylvania]
[Based upon evidence in the photograph ("Clark" is written on safe in back), believed to be Clark's Jewelry and Clock Shop owned by J. W. Clark]
In 1998, the Mill Street Business Association office was located in this building.
[Bath Street looking north just above Buckley Street, on right and Mifflin Street on left]
Building left of center was Kay’s Bakery. It has been removed. The trolley tracks to Newtown/Doylestown are visible on the street.
[Bath Street near the corner of Bath and Buckley Streets (east side)]
The delivery truck belonged to Francis Wear who had a grocery store on the corner. The middle building has been removed, but it is the side of a drug store (fist owned by Mr. Watson and then Alan Vogenberg).
Located on the north side of Bath Street, four houses from the railroad. It closed when the Snyder School on Buckley and Beaver Streets was opened at an unknown date. The building was used as a furniture warehouse by Dries Furniture Store (Mill and Pond Streets) and burned in 1973. Houses have been built on the site.
Students unidentified. "(me)" written on front of photograph in ink over top of one female student.
[Believed to be canal lock #3 just above Bath Street]
The house on the left was the lock keeper's house. Beyond this lock was Lock #4, located behind what later became Grundy Towers apartment complex.
[Believed to be Pennsylvania Railroad station near Bristol area, Edgely, or Croydon]
[Believed to be the Delaware River along the northern part of Bucks County]
On back of photograph: "Bell Apts. Civil War Encampment. On the grounds of the former Bell Mansion, now apartments. 824 Radcliffe Street."
[Bell cast in 1831 for the then newly built town hall]
The Town Hall was removed in 1938. At that time, the bell was placed on the lawn of the present municipal building, which had been opened in 1927. The original Town Hall stood in the middle of Market Street facing Radcliffe Street.
[Bell Home located at 824 Radcliffe Street]
The house was built between 1872-1889. It was once covered with ivy. When the ivy was removed it had grey paint placed over the bricks. In 1980 they decided to remove the grey paint and restore the house to its original appearance.
[Benches along the Delaware River, view looking east]
[Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) headquarters, Bristol]
Bristol’s BPOE club was organized in 1905. This building was opened in 1911 on the site of the German Consul to the U.S. in the 1790s. During the zenith of the anthracite coal trade on the canal, it was a boarding house known as The Beaver Meadows House. The Elks moved to a new location on Wood Street when it was torn down in 1979.
[Bernard Mazzocchi III assists with the unloading of the 17,000+ pound boulder used to hold the fiberglass mule statue in front of Canal Works at Beaver and Canal Street]
[Bernard Mazzocchi III, owner of Canal Works and his son Bernard Mazzocchi IV, stand next to a boulder that is being placed along a fence at his property]
The boulder is to provide a foundation for a mule statue which represents the hundreds of mules that pulled canal barges between Easton and Bristol (1830-1931) along the Delaware Canal.
[Bernard Mazzocchi III, owner of Canal Works at Canal and Beaver Street, helps direct traffic on Canal Street as a 17000+ pound boulder is unloaded and transported to the corner of Beaver and Canal Street]
The boulder is the platform for a fiberglass mule statue decorating the corner. The mule project is one of 179 mules in the Delaware Valley that celebrate the Delaware Canal (1820-1931) which transported anthracite coal from Easton, PA to Bristol. The Bristol Cultural and Historic Foundation paid for the mule. An artist from New Hope, PA painted the scene on the mule.
Located on the Landreth Estate called Bloomsdale. It was closer to Green Lane than the Bloomsdale House. Berwick was built in 1875 by David Landreth and the cost was twenty-two thousand dollars. It was made of brick. David Landreth lived there until 1895 when he moved back to Bloomsdale House. He remained in Bloomsdale House until 1903. At that time, Annie Landreth took possession of the estate and home in a sheriff’s sale. Mr. Landreth moved to a rented house on Radcliffe Street in Bristol at number 628. The people in the photograph are (from left to right) Burnet Landreth, David Landreth V with dog, Meta Phillips Landreth, Van Phillips, Nellie Phillips, Frances Landreth, and Symintgon Phillips Landreth with dog.
[Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church]
The house section remains a private residence, the shop building has been removed. This bicycle shop was formerly owned by Charles R. Thompson, Sr.
[Bicycle shop at the corner of Old Bristol Pike and Mill Street]
[Bill Engle, chief test pilot (in dark trousers), standing in front of the Seabird at Fleetwings]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna."
[Bimonthly meeting of the Bristol Travel Club]
Bimonthly meeting of the Bristol Travel Club, February 22, 1929. The Travel Club was part of the American Federation of Women’s Clubs. This date was the 197th birthday of George Washington. To help celebrate, the women were encouraged to attend in a variety of costumes representing various historical periods. Mrs. William Buckman, gowned to represent First Lady Martha Washington, served as program leader. The site of the meeting was the Keene Home built in 1816 at the east corner of Radcliffe and Dorrance Streets. (Current location of the Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library that opened in 1966). W.B. Nichols, one of the Bristol’s leading photographers at that time, was invited to photograph the group. This photograph was taken in the yard behind the house. The house in the background was once the home of the actor Thomas and his wife Mary Cooper. The minutes of the meeting show that there were 52 members present and several guests. Three photographs were required to include all members. [Note: There are only 49 people total in the photographs and one member, Mrs. Mitchell Ancker, appears in two photographs. Only two of the three photographs have the names of those in the photograph.] 32 identifications: Front Row left to right – Mrs. Ernest Laurence, Mrs. Roy Tracy, Mrs. Richard T. Meyers, Dr. Julia Slack, Miss Elizabeth N. [Iredell?], Mrs. Mitchell Ancker, Mrs. Franklin K. Wills, Mrs. Howard E. James, Mrs. Horace Burton. Back Row Left to Right – Mrs. Henry Hartman, Mrs. Forest Bilderback, Mrs. Armand N. Morris, Mrs. Russell Burton, Mrs. John Tracy, Mrs. Paul Forster, Mrs. Herman [Jensenius?], Mrs. H. Doyle Webb, Mrs. Linton Martin (Mrs. Martin was responsible for starting the club in 1901).
Bimonthly meeting of the Bristol Travel Club, February 22, 1929. The Travel Club was part of the American Federation of Women’s Clubs. This date was the 197th birthday of George Washington. To help celebrate, the women were encouraged to attend in a variety of costumes representing various historical periods. Mrs. William Buckman, gowned to represent First Lady Martha Washington, served as program leader. The site of the meeting was the Keene Home built in 1816 at the east corner of Radcliffe and Dorrance Streets. (Current location of the Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library that opened in 1966). W.B. Nichols, one of the Bristol’s leading photographers at that time, was invited to photograph the group. This photograph was taken in the yard behind the house. The house in the background was once the home of the actor Thomas and his wife Mary Cooper. The minutes of the meeting show that there were 52 members present and several guests. Three photographs were required to include all members. [Note: There are only 49 people total in the photographs and one member, Mrs. Mitchell Ancker, appears in two photographs. Only two of the three photographs have the names of those in the photograph.] Identification: Front Row Left to Right – Mrs. Griffith Williams, Mrs. Emil Metzger, Mrs. William G. Buckman, Mrs. Marburg D. Weagley, Mrs. Russell Ellis, Mrs. Bradley Andrey, Mrs. William Taylor, Mrs. Scott Wtherill, Miss Mary Johnson Haines. Back Row Left to Right – Mrs. David O. Taylor, Miss Sue Iredell, Mrs. Frank Lehman, Mrs. Walter [Pitzonka?], Mrs. John Moyer.
Bimonthly meeting of the Bristol Travel Club, February 22, 1929. The Travel Club was part of the American Federation of Women’s Clubs. This date was the 197th birthday of George Washington. To help celebrate, the women were encouraged to attend in a variety of costumes representing various historical periods. Mrs. William Buckman, gowned to represent First Lady Martha Washington, served as program leader. The site of the meeting was the Keene Home built in 1816 at the east corner of Radcliffe and Dorrance Streets. (Current location of the Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library that opened in 1966). W.B. Nichols, one of the Bristol’s leading photographers at that time, was invited to photograph the group. This photograph was taken in the yard behind the house. The house in the background was once the home of the actor Thomas and his wife Mary Cooper. The minutes of the meeting show that there were 52 members present and several guests. Three photographs were required to include all members. [Note: There are only 49 people total in the photographs and one member, Mrs. Mitchell Ancker, appears in two photographs. Only two of the three photographs have the names of those in the photograph.
[Black leather case with gold lettering “Purple Heart”]
Vincent Boccardo Jr.
[Bloomsdale Estate, belonging to the Landreth family, located on the grounds of the Landreth Seed Farm]
[Bloomsdale Estate, belonging to the Landreth family]
This was the original estate house build on the Landreth Seed Farm (Bloomsdale) located at Radcliffe Street and Green Lane. The oldest part of the house dates from 1752. December 25, 1776 either General Cadwalder or General Putman used this house as their headquarters when preparing to cross the Delaware River to help General Washington. The Landreth family lived there until 1903. It had eight bedrooms on the second floor and many closets. The third floor had three bedrooms, a water tank room, numerous closets, and three garrets for unused furniture storage. There were two large parlors on the first floor, named ‘winter’ and ‘summer’ parlors. A fine hall of walnut and ash separated the parlors. The rear hall door opened upon a portico. There was an observatory on top of the house. There was a sitting room separated from the dining room by folding doors. There were two kitchens, two rear halls, and a rear stairway. Next to the ‘winter parlor’ were two library rooms with walnut and ash. There was an immense cellar. Every room had a fireplace. Apple tree wood, red-cedar, and locust were burned without limitation until the old wood supply was used. They then burned West Virginia soft coal. The house was sold at a sheriff's sale in 1903 to a sister of David Landreth named Annie. A year later, it was sold out of the family. About 1860, the lawn was at the zenith of its perfection.
Bloomsdale Public School, built in 1871 in Bristol Township. It was located on the north side of Green Lane (then called Bloomsdale Road) between the railroad and the canal. In 1999, a company called Loos and Dilworth occupied the site. It was reported by Charlotte Landreth Melville, the daughter of David Landreth, former owner of the Landreth Seed Company on the Bloomsdale estate. The company has in their possession the original stone which records the date.
[Boat “Blue Bell” at two-mile lock, Delaware Lehigh Canal]
The two-mile lock is believed to be the lock between Green Lane and Edgely Road (Lock #4).
According to a mule chart, the two-mile point is in the Edgely area of Bristol Township, north of Bristol.
[Boat marina off of Neshaminy Creek in the Croydon section of Bristol Township]
On the opposite side of the creek (top) is Bensalem Township. The confluence of the creek and the Delaware River is to the left.
[Boat ramp to the right of the Mill Street Wharf at the Delaware River]
The ramp was removed and large boulders replaced it. This happened when the waterfront park was improved and four ethnic monuments were added. Festivals are sponsored each summer and in October each year is Historic Bristol Day.