Hidden Stories of Christmas Steps

Commerce, chaos and craft, the living archive of Christmas steps

Layers beneath, lives in between, stories of the steps

Dr Richard Smith. Surgeon and lecturer. 1772 - 1843.

Ladies of Fosters Almshouse. Sanctuary for the poor. 1492 - 2007.

Dorothy Hazard. English Baptist leader and religious reformer. The siege of Bristol 1643.

Gladys Shufflewick aka Rex Jameson. Star performer of Club 49. 1970’s / 80’s.

Carlos Trower . "The African Blondin". World renowned high wire walker and abolitionist.

Francis Burnett Wood and Harriet harman . Actors from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin - New Theatre Royal 1878.

The Swell Mob. A notorious pickpocket gang of the 1860’.

Sir Thomas Lunsford . Royalist colonel known as the cannibal cavalier! 1610 - 1653.