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[721 Cedar Street]
The lot to the left of the house was part of the property of Comfort’s Lining and Carriage Rental business. William Salerno (as of 2000) has his law office at 220 Radcliffe Street in the former Thomas Scott house, just south of the original Farmer’s National Bank (presently called Wells Fargo).Tags Bristol Borough -
[A parade float turning the corner from Pond Street on to Jefferson Avenue, traveling to Radcliffe Street]
Note the building at Jefferson Avenue and Pond Street with the metal awning over the sidewalk--a grocery store. This warmer weather image may have been a celebration at the conclusion of World War II (1945) with a parade. -
[A religious parade from St. Ann Church on Dorrance and Pond Streets]
The nuns and other participants are photographed on Pond Street about to turn on to Jefferson Avenue. To the right is the Jefferson Avenue Public School. -
[Aerial photograph of Bristol Borough]
At the bottom is U.S. Route 13. Across the top, parallel to Route 13, are the four, elevated tracks of the former Pennsylvania Railroad between Philadelphia and New York. The streets perpendicular to the railroad with underpasses are (left to right): Beaver Street just out of view, Corson Street, and Pine Street. -
[Band playing in a parade on what is possibly Cedar Street]
Based upon the trees it was summer, the cars on the street indicated that it was early twentieth century. -
[Bath Street looking north just above Buckley Street, on right and Mifflin Street on left]
Building left of center was Kay’s Bakery. It has been removed. The trolley tracks to Newtown/Doylestown are visible on the street. -
[Bath Street near the corner of Bath and Buckley Streets (east side)]
The delivery truck belonged to Francis Wear who had a grocery store on the corner. The middle building has been removed, but it is the side of a drug store (fist owned by Mr. Watson and then Alan Vogenberg). -
[Berwick House]
Located on the Landreth Estate called Bloomsdale. It was closer to Green Lane than the Bloomsdale House. Berwick was built in 1875 by David Landreth and the cost was twenty-two thousand dollars. It was made of brick. David Landreth lived there until 1895 when he moved back to Bloomsdale House. He remained in Bloomsdale House until 1903. At that time, Annie Landreth took possession of the estate and home in a sheriff’s sale. Mr. Landreth moved to a rented house on Radcliffe Street in Bristol at number 628.
The people in the photograph are (from left to right) Burnet Landreth, David Landreth V with dog, Meta Phillips Landreth, Van Phillips, Nellie Phillips, Frances Landreth, and Symintgon Phillips Landreth with dog. -
[Bloomsdale Estate, belonging to the Landreth family]
This was the original estate house build on the Landreth Seed Farm (Bloomsdale) located at Radcliffe Street and Green Lane. The oldest part of the house dates from 1752. December 25, 1776 either General Cadwalder or General Putman used this house as their headquarters when preparing to cross the Delaware River to help General Washington. The Landreth family lived there until 1903.
It had eight bedrooms on the second floor and many closets. The third floor had three bedrooms, a water tank room, numerous closets, and three garrets for unused furniture storage.
There were two large parlors on the first floor, named ‘winter’ and ‘summer’ parlors. A fine hall of walnut and ash separated the parlors. The rear hall door opened upon a portico. There was an observatory on top of the house.
There was a sitting room separated from the dining room by folding doors. There were two kitchens, two rear halls, and a rear stairway. Next to the ‘winter parlor’ were two library rooms with walnut and ash. There was an immense cellar. Every room had a fireplace. Apple tree wood, red-cedar, and locust were burned without limitation until the old wood supply was used. They then burned West Virginia soft coal.
The house was sold at a sheriff's sale in 1903 to a sister of David Landreth named Annie. A year later, it was sold out of the family.
About 1860, the lawn was at the zenith of its perfection. -
[Building at the corner of Wood and Market Streets opposite from Bristol Fire Company No. 1]
The building dates back before the American Revolutionary War. It has been said that American officers from that war stayed in this building for a while. We (Harold and Carol Mitchener) know that the Friends Meeting House (Quaker) at Market and Wood Streets was built in 1711 and served as a temporary hospital for American troops during that war. -
[Building with red siding was the former home/carriage rental business of Ellis Comfort, located at Dorrance & Cedar Streets]
There had been a livery stable behind the house. Their son Ellis ‘Speet’ Comfort, once operated an antique repair shop in the building boarded up in the photograph. The house now has new siding and a large fan-type window on the side third story where the two windows are located in this photograph. -
[Cannon Monument]
This monument was presented by Burnet Landreth in memory of the 44 officers and 461 men from Bristol who fought in the Civil War. The cannon, made in France in 1762, was captured from the Confederate army in 1863. It stands at the Bristol Post Office. -
[Christopher Columbus statue, Bristol Wharf]
Columbus monument was erected by the Columbus 500 Foundation to celebrate his 500th anniversary of his first trip to America. Artist Joseph Pavone created the statue. It was the first of the monuments to be placed at the waterfront park. -
[Closson Hotel on Bath Street at Otter Street]
Trolley in view begins at Closson Hotel and runs to Doylestown. Hotel Closson was later called Keystone Hotel. Presently (1998) the hotel side is now the District Justice Office. -
[Commerce Park at PA Route 413 and US Route 13]
McDonald's and Pizza Hut stores are visible. -
[Commerce Park at Route US 13 and PA Route 413]
Super Fresh Supermarket is in center. -
[Commerce Park at US Route 13 and PA Route 413]
Super Fresh Supermarket is on the right side. -
[Commerce Park at US Route 13 and PA Route 413]
Drainage pond and Super Fresh Supermarket visible. -
[Commerce Park at US Route 13 and PA Route 413]
McDonald’s fast food on left. Pizza Hut on the right. -
[Commerce Park drainage basin]
Lower Bucks Hospital visible in the background.