Bristol, ` Queen of the West Country`, is a city founded on manufacturing & trade. Once described as producing within its bounds every daily necessity required in life, its merchants were mocked by outsiders for lives dominated by a rage for profit. It was a city in which grandeur lived cheek by jowl with poverty & pollution, & dangerous industry with domesticity. Old & modern Bristol are described here in drawings, paintings & photographs (many previously unpublished from the author`s collection & those of the Bristol Central Reference Library), in a volume that complements the author`s previous book for Amberley on Central Bristol. The book is arranged as a series of textual & visual peregrinations around Bristol & its main arterial routes, & documents some of the myriad changes that have occurred in the city`s evolution over the last few centuries.