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A portion of the fine Jacobean panelling from St. Michael's 

 Rectory has been cleaned and found to be sound and in perfect 

 •order. Should the remainder prove equally good on cleaning, 

 the Museum will possess a panelled room of rare beauty and 

 excellence. 



A portion of the fine doorway formerly at Spicer's Hall 

 has been experimentally treated, and justifies the cleaning of 

 the whole. This relic is exceptionally massive and dignified 

 in decoration, and when finished will be placed in the Bristol 

 Room. 



The Christ Church Quarter Boys, which for a long 

 period of years, struck the quarter hours on the clock, of the 

 old church of Holy Trinity or Christ Church at the corner of 

 Corn and High Streets, had passed, at the demolition of the 

 old church in 1787, into the hands of Mr. Oldham, who had 

 them re-painted and carried in the City procession at the 

 coronation of George IV. Subsequently they passed into the 

 possession of the Museum with the Braikenridge collections. 



They have now, under an arrangement with the Trustees 

 of Christ Church, been returned to their original duties on the 

 Christ Church, which rose on the site of the older one. When, 

 through the operations of time and weather, the figures need 

 to be re-placed, they will once more be returned to the 

 Museum. In returning these interesting mannikins to the 

 church, the Committee feel that they have performed a public 

 duty by encouraging the public spirit, which led to the 

 renewal of one of the City's ancient features after a lapse of 

 126 years. 



Numerous additions have been made to the Bristol 

 Antiquities, and to the collections of Bristol pottery and 

 porcelain. Through the kind offices of Mr. James Baker, 

 F.R.Hist.Soc, portions of a Bristol pottery dinner-service, 

 with local views, were presented by Col. N.Willoughby Wallace 

 from the collections of the late Canon Wallace, together with 

 a number of Engravings of Clifton and the Hotwells. 



