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[Bristol Riverside Theater, Radcliffe and Market Streets]
This is a theater with live stage performances. It was formerly called the Bristol Theater where films were shown. The Bristol Riverside Theater opened in 1987. The first play was ‘The Good Earth’ based on a book of the same name by Bucks County resident Pearl Buck. -
[Bristol Post Office at Radcliffe and Market Streets]
Bristol Post Office (until 1914) located at Radcliffe and Market Street. The second floor was a lecture hall. Note the electric trolley tracks (1900-1932) on the street. The new post office opened at Beaver and Prospect Streets in 1914. -
[Bristol Post Office at Radcliffe and Market Streets]
This building stood at the corner of Radcliffe and Market Streets. It was removed circa 1949 when a new red brick structure was built to house a bank. As the photograph indicated, it was the U.S. Post Office until a new Post Office was erected at Beaver and Prospect Streets in 1914. The upper floor was a lecture hall and part of the building housed an antique store. After the postal service moved it became a ticket office for ferry boats and the trolley. -
[Radcliffe Street between Market and Mill Streets in the snow]
The former Bristol Theater (Movie House) has been replaced by the Bristol Riverside Theater. The tallest structure is the King George II Hotel, called the Delaware House in the photograph. The facades of the buildings between the theater and the hotel have been altered. At the end of Radcliffe Street where it intersects with Mill Street is the former Bristol House. -
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[Side of the Bristol Riverside Theatre facing the Delaware River and Market Street]
Site of former Bristol Theater (movies). -
[Bristol Riverside Theatre, view from the back of the building]
Bristol Riverside Theater opened in 1987 on Radcliffe at Market Street. This view is facing the Delaware River. -
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[The Board of Directors, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Radcliffe and Market Street]
The Board is on the outside steps of the atrium.
Left to right are Charles Richmond, Carol Mignoni Ferguson, William Farell, unidentified, Jack Sirot, Ann Mar, unidentified, Robert Norman, unidentified, unidentified.
The theater opened in 1987 with the play “The Good Earth” based on a book by Pearl Buck who lived in Bucks County. -
[Market Street Wharf, with two of Bristol’s banking institutions visible]
The white building with columns is the former Farmer’s Bank founded in 1814. The red brick building is First Service Bank erected in 1950 by the Bristol Trust Company, later to be called Delaware Valley Bank, Philadelphia National Bank, and First Union Bank. In 1998 First Union Bank and Fidelity Bank merged to become Wachovia Bank. In May of 1999 First Service Bank opened at this site. -
[200 block of Market Street]
The blue and red houses are two of the oldest houses in Bristol. -
[200 block of Market Street]
The house with the windows boarded up was the Bilger home. They are deceased and a new family renovated it. The double house is one of the older houses in Bristol. -
[Corner of Market and Cedar Streets]
As of 2017, the building is owned by the Bristol Riverside Theater on Radcliffe and Market Street. -
[Corner of Market and Cedar Streets]
As of 2017, the building is owned by the Bristol Riverside Theater on Radcliffe and Market Street. -
[Corner of Market and Cedar Streets]
As of 2017, the building is owned by the Bristol Riverside Theater on Radcliffe and Market Street. -
[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. -
[Market Street Wharf area]
The tent is behind the bank, which is on Radcliffe Street. It may have been set for the celebration of the opening of the Bristol Riverside Theatre in 1987. -
[Radcliffe and Market Streets]
On on the left is the Bristol Theater which showed movies, making this photograph circa pre-1987. That year was when the Bristol Riverside Theater opened. BRT is a theater with live plays and musicals. -
[Atrium of Bristol Riverside Theatre, open in 1987]
Market Street is visible. -
[Hill at Market Street, on the left is the old Bristol Movie Theater]
In this photograph it is being cleaned out (note the dumpster on walkway). This was in preparation for the Bristol Riverside Theatre to open in 1987. The street behind the Theatre is now part of the atrium. -
[E. W. Minster’s Livery Stable and Ice Depot ice wagon]
Depot located on Pond Street near Market Street. -
[Photograph taken from the Mill Street Bridge over the Delaware Canal looking North]
The second lock beyond the tidal lock at the Delaware River is pictured. The lock keeper's house is on the left (red). To the right, across a field is Market Street perpendicular to the canal. In the distance on the right is Leedom’s Mill water tower, and the smokestack and clock tower of the Grundy Mill. -
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[Bristol Wharf in 1970, before the development of Lions Park and the Gazebo]
At this time, Samuel Clift Street (formerly Water Street) extended to Market Street from Mill Street. -
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[Flooding of the Delaware River]
Photographed is the Market Street wharf and the parking lot behind the bank building at Radcliffe Street and Market Street.