ntly pulled down which said premises were in certain Deeds dated
13th February, 1861, described as 'All that messuage or Warehouse
situate on the South West side of and fronting to Small Street in the
City of Bristol then lately in the occupation of Messrs. Turpin &
Langdon Book Binders but then void and also all those Warehouses
Counting-house Rooms Yard and Buildings situate lying and being behind
and adjoining to the said last named messuage or Warehouse and then and
for some time past in the occupation of Messrs. John Freeman and Copper
Company and used by them for the purposes of their Co-partnership trade
and business.' Secondly, All that plot piece or parcel of ground
adjoining the heredits firstly thereinbefore described on the North
West side thereof and also fronting to Small Street aforesaid and
specified on the said plan and therein distinguished by an edging of
blue color which said plot of ground formed the site of certain premises
also then recently pulled down which said premises were in certain Deeds
dated 13th February 1861 described as "All that messuage or
dwelling-house formerly in the holding of Thomas Edwards Linen Draper
since that of William Lewis Tailor afterwards and for many years of John
Powell Rich then of George Smith as Tenants to Messrs. Bright & Daniel
afterwards of Daniel George but then unoccupied situate and being No. 6
in Small Street in the Parish of St.-Werburgh in the City of Bristol
between a messuage or tenement formerly in the possession of Messrs.
Harford & Coy. Iron Merchants but then of the Bristol Water Works
Company on or towards the north part and a Coach-house yard and premises
then formerly in the occupation of Richard Bright and Thomas Daniel and
then Co-partners trading under the Firm of the Bristol Copper Company
but then the property of the said James Ford on the South part and
extending from said Street called Small Street on the East part backward
to the West unto part of the ground built on by the said Copper Company
the Wall between the Warehouse and said messuage."

When, in the year 1867, the plan for this new Post Office building in
Small Street had been prepared and Treasury authority obtained for the
expenditure of a sum of L8,000 in the erection of the building, the
Inland Revenue Department asked for accommodation in the structure, and
it was arranged that its staff should be lodged on the first floor of
the new building. The building itself had, therefor