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Bristol Railway Mission Hall opened in 1896 as the Railway Gospel Temperance Hall. Prior to the opening meetings had been held in an upper room of Bristol Temple Meads Joint station from around 1880. The GWR provided the land for the hall in Pyle Hill Goods Yard, as they had the room in the Joint Station. The most famous leader of the Bristol branch of the Railway Mission was Miss Emma Saunders of Clifton. She had been involved with the Mission from 1880 until 1924. She is commemorated on a marble tablet at the station and was known as 'The Railwaymen's Friend' or 'The Lady with the Basket'. The latter after the basket in which she used to carry small gifts and leaflets to give to upto 2,000 men each month across railway installations in the Bristol area..
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