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Mid 1960's |
January 2000: the cable is still there draped across the top of the monument after thirty-five years! |
At the Top of Christmas Steps
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Mid 1960's |
January 2000: the cable is still there draped across the top of the monument after thirty-five years! |
The little round plate at the top says 'A.D. rebuilt 1881'. The main text says:- "THIS STREET WAS STEPPERED DONE & FINISHED SEPTEMBER 1669 THE RIGHT WOR (shipful) THOMAS STEVENS ESQ THEN MAYOR HUMPHRY LITTLE AND RICHARD HART SHERRIFFES THE RIGHT WOR(shipful) ROBERT YEAMANS KNT & BARRONET MAYOR ELECT CHARLES POWELL & EDWARD HORNE SHERRIFFS ELECT OF THIS CITTY BY AND AT THE COST OF JONATHAN BLACKWELL ESQ FORMERLY SHERRIFFE OF THIS CITTY AND AFTERWARDS ALDERMAN OF THE CITTY OF LONDON & BY YE SAID SIR ROBERT YEAMANS WHEN MAYOR AND ALDERMAN OF THIS CITTY NAMED QUEENE STREETE.
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| Before this time, the way had been a dangerous path (especially on dark wet winter nights) used as a short cut up out of the City. Originally the new path was to be called 'Queene Street'. |
| One source mentions that before the rebuilding, the path was know as Lonsford's Stairs because a Royalist Officer of that name was killed at the top during the siege of Bristol during the Civil War (1642-1649). |
