Tour of Clifton Village's plaques

Gordon Young, Chairman of the Blue Plaques Panel of the Bristol Civic Society, led a tour around Clifton Village and Hotwells explaining more about the plaques that can be seen around the area.  ‘Gordon is full of interesting facts regarding the plaques that populate these two wards,’ Mrs Peaches Golding OBE, Lord-Lieutenant for Bristol noted.  ‘Eugénie de Montijo, the future Empress and wife of Napoleon III, attended school in Royal York Crescent.  According to her notes, she found Bristol a very dull location when young and absolutely adored it in her older years.’  An increasing number of plaques in the City are dedicated to women who have accomplished significant achievements. Near the Mall is a plaque to suffragists who met in a house there planning how to peacefully advance the cause for the right for women to vote.  The Chair and members of the Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society were among those taking part in the tour.