church. The pastor is Andrew Yelland. The church was built on a site bounded by market gardens, a brick works and Deep Pit Colliery. When The Beaufort Arms, then known as The Beatem and Wackem and now called The Wackum Inn was the place where most miners spent their hard earned wages! Hence the need for a children's work in that community. Another local church was Clay Hill Chapel which was demolished when the industrial estates were built. Industry Over many years, the Market Gardens became housing, White's Brick Works became Somers Wood Yard (now an industrial pallet site) – and Deep Pit Colliery became industrial estates. When Deep Pit closed, men were having to walk underground as far as Frenchay to reach the coal face. Housing Crofts End House, located at the junction of Plummer's Hill and Whitehall Avenue, still exists, but no longer as a single dwelling. It has been refurbished and is now part of a housing association development. The area is undergoing more change as the majority of 'prefabs' (built by American Service-men as post war housing) in the locality have been demolished. Planning applications will replace these with mixed style housing. The old, redundant Civil Defence building on the junction of Crofts End Road and Brook Road was demolished and housing association flats were built on the site, now named "Craftes Court". Fishponds Fishponds is a predominantly residential area of Bristol that lies partially within the Eastville ward. Stapleton Stapleton is a suburb of Bristol which lies in the east of the city. Residents Andrew Beer (1862-1954), artist and racing pigeon expert Paul Potts, tenor, councillor for the ward from 1996 until 2003 References Areas of Bristol Wards of Bristol