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A Market and Coastal Towns Initiative  Project (Exe Valley Plan), sponsored by the Regional Development Agency -

Global HQ Providing low cost internet targeted marketing, from Gibraltar to London, the Western Corridor of the UK,  based in Devon. 

Bristol is a multicultural city of (Deep breath) balloons and kites, clubs and DJs, festivals and carnivals, architecture and park land, business and new technology, theatres and museums, artists and animators, music and film innovation, creativity, exploration and risk taking. Sound good? Bristol has been officially designated a 'Centre of Culture' and a 'Science City' by the Government for its wide ranging arts, culture, heritage, innovation, design and creative inventiveness.

The list of innovations and world class ideas that the City of Bristol has been host to is impressive.

In the 1980’s, Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the Great Western Railway which stretches from London to Bristol.

The foundations of solid-state physics were laid here in the 1930s by Nevill Mott and his team.

Aerospace has been a big aspect of the area since the base of the Bristol Aeroplane Company at Filton was founded by George White in 1910. This had international attention when in the mid-1960s, Concorde was built and tested in Bristol.

One of the major branches of Rolls Royce is also based in Bristol.
The HTML web language which underpins most of the Internet was partly developed at the Hewlett Packard research centre in Bristol.

The BBC has a strong presence in Clifton, which includes its phenomenally successful Natural History Unit.

Hewlett Packard's largest research centre outside of California is based in Bristol.

British Aerospace's centre for design and manufacture of the Airbus was in Bristol

Pioneering environmental projects such as the Centre for Sustainable Energy, the Recycling Consortium, the Soil Association, the Western Partnership for Sustainable Development and Sustrans are all worked on in and around Bristol.

 

Scores of media companies covering the spectrum from conventional film and TV production to digital media are in the greater Bristol area.
Bristol is home to the oldest working theatre in England, the Bristol Old Vic (open since 1766), and there are also newer venues for drama such as the nationally acclaimed Tobacco Factory.

The Bristol Harbour side is packed with cultural attractions: the Arnolfini, one of Europe's leading centres for the contemporary arts; Spike Island, boasting the largest studio space in England; an IMAX cinema; and the Watershed, Britain's foremost centre for film, photography and new media.

All in all, there is an incredible mix of history, new ideas, creativity and science in Bristol. There is so much history that has been made, for example, in the mid-18th century, Bristol was England's second city.

Many goods that had been imported had come through Bristol from the New World, including cane sugar, tobacco, rum and cocoa. Around this time, merchants began to build their homes away from the docks in genteel areas such as Clifton. The beautiful Georgian houses of this area are a legacy of these times and add much to the architectural heritage of the area.