A case study of public provision for sport in Bristol 1945-1975

This dissertation is a case study on the public provision of sporting facilities in Bristol from 1945-1975. It will look at the extent of national government involvement in sport during this period and test whether a study of a local region followed the same trends. It will attempt to discover how the sporting scene changed and developed in Bristol 1945-1975 and what the key driving factors were. This will enable us to understand and gain a comprehensive picture of the development for public provision for sport and determine what role the local government had in providing it. Taking into account the limitations of one case study for the national picture, the dissertation suggests that Bristol followed a similar direction to central government in regards to sporting facilities which indicates that central governments policies filtered down to a local level.Faculty of Art