Roll Up As the Circus Is Soon to Arrive in Bristol ; It's Hard to Remember What Quakers Friars Used to Look Like Before the Bulldozers Moved in to Change the Face of Broadmead Shopping Centre.

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It's hard to remember what Quakers Friars used to look like before the bulldozers moved in to change the face of Broadmead shopping centre.

Bristol's former register office was set in the middle of a car park and looked out on the back of shop units and public toilets.

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Roll Up As the Circus Is Soon to Arrive in Bristol ; It's Hard to Remember What Quakers Friars Used to Look Like Before the Bulldozers Moved in to Change the Face of Broadmead Shopping Centre.

Couples marrying there had to position themselves carefully to make sure the parked cars and industrial bins were out of shot while photographs were being taken.

Now Quakers Friars is virtually unrecognisable.

It has been transformed into a continental-style piazza with oak trees, a water feature and upmarket shops as a backdrop.

At its centre is the old ...

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