Symposium Venue - Merchant Venturers Building

The 2004 Colston Symposium will be held in the University of Bristol's Merchant Venturers Building, a relatively new site housing a number of departments within the Faculty of Engineering as well as a number of commercial organisations. It is located in Woodland Road, in the central campus, next to the Wills Memorial Building.

The conference is supported by the Colstons Research Society which was founded in 1899 as the ‘University College Colston Society’, by a body of Bristol citizens who wished to assist the University College. From 1908 to 1948 it applied its resources in grants to defray the expenses of specific research projects in various departments of the University. Since 1948 the first charge on its funds has been the promotion in the University of an annual Symposium, with publication of the proceedings in a series of Colston Papers.

Getting to Bristol

The University is a city centre campus with restricted parking facilities and we recommend that delegates try to use other forms of transport if at all possible.

For detailed information on how to get to the conference venue, see the University's maps and guides section.

More information about Bristol is available from the University's Web site.