Hampton is, I believe of small village in Wiltshire built on land owned by Earl Roger of Hereford. What Earl Roger of Hereford has got to do with Bristol I am at a loss to even contemplate, so I won't. What I was contemplating today were the upper three floors of a four floored mid-terraced house built in the Victorian era against the railway line. Well, it wasn't actually against the railway line but it wasn't far away from it, the railway line was in a cutting. The Luftwaffe during the last war made strenuous efforts to bomb parts of Bristol and to an extent of course succeeded. The nearest bomb to this property however was the other side of the railway track, but maybe that was the reason tie bars were introduced into the rear elevation of this house, but I'm not sure. There has been some settlement and movement here and war glass remained in a couple of windows. The maisonette was otherwise in reasonable condition but, owning a car in this part of Bristol is probably madness, something Roger would never have thought about…   more »