Bristol Tour: Explore Historic Air Raid Shelter

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Discover Bristol’s historic Old Town, explore the St. Nicholas Market, and visit the city’s biggest public Air Raid Shelter on this unique walking tour. Experience Bristol’s trading past, the swinging 60’s, and the vibrant present. Don’t miss out!

Duration: 2 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Corn Exchange - We’ve exclusive access to Bristol’s most important building and historic area. Enjoy privileged access to subterranean passageways, roof top vistas, WW11 air raid shelters and rooms which once rocked to the best bands in the world. We then finish amongst the best street food in the city in the heart of St.Nicholas Market!

What's Included

All Fees and Taxes

What's Not Included

Lunch

Additional Information

Explore Bristol’s largest public Air Raid Shelter, wander through the historic Old Town, and visit the nation’s top covered market.
Join us for an unforgettable adventure.
Our knowledgeable local guides will lead you on a distinctive tour, showcasing Bristol’s rich trading history, the lively 1960s, and the city’s dynamic present.
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Location

The Corn Exchange

Corn Street

We meet outside the main entrance of the Corn Exchange on Corn Street at 11am. The main door is located underneath the clock.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Meganh649

Apr 20, 2026

Really friendly and informative walking tour! - Really friendly and informative walking tour! The guide/owners is happy to deal with adverse situations, and is very professional over email. The walking tour its self was full of insightful information and was great to see a different bit of history within Bristol. Appeals to both locals and tourist (our group was a mix) and touches on a variety of history of the area. As well as providing additional ways to engage with a lesser know historical period. The price feels really reasonable for the amount of details and information provided.

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Katherine_l

Apr 20, 2026

Fun & interesting tour - Afternoon tours feature the Air Raid shelters beneath St Nicholas’ Market. If you wish to include the market, then you need to book a morning tour. Guide was excellent- very knowledgeable and brought the experience to life! Thoroughly enjoyable tour 😊

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Holly

Apr 19, 2026

Extremely informative visit. - We had a lovely tour round the air raid shelter and the immediate environs of St Nicholas Market. Very interesting information about the impact of the blitz on Bristol. A lot of which we had no idea about which we found fascinating as we have lived near Bristol all our lives. Very friendly tour guide who really got into the spirit of the tour. They are clearly trying to set up a unique tourist attraction here and it has a lot of potential for further interesting development. I highly recommend the visit for an entertaining dose of Bristol history.

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K2076khpaulh

Apr 19, 2026

Brilliantly entertaining! - Duncan our guide was fantastic, funny, knowledgeable and very passionate about telling the stories of this terrible time. We live in Bristol but this was the most informative trip we have been on, do your self a favour and book the tour!! Paul Howe.

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Robertouk

Apr 19, 2026

Must-do history tour in Bristol - Brilliant tour with a charismatic and knowledgeable guide, full of amazing facts and great people stories. Much recommended.

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Juliettef442

Apr 18, 2026

Perfectly splendid - You learn many many things, very very interesting tour, passionate guide and impressive historic objects !! Even if you don’t know many thing about ww2 its very interesting to do

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Skybluedreamer

Apr 18, 2026

A must do for tourists or residents in Bristol. - Excellent tour. Very interesting and informative but also fun, thanks to our great tour guide, Owen. I’d recommend this to anyone, whether visitor to Bristol or local.

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Aholbech

Apr 18, 2026

Look into the past with the Air Raide tour in St Nicholas market in Bristol - Went on the Air Raide tour yesterday with Richard as our guide. The tour was fascinating and Richard made it come alive with interesting facts, historical pictures and the actual air raide shelter with all its contents. Memorable and thoughtful.

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Cfoley84

Apr 17, 2026

Fascinating tour and great tour guide - We went on the air raid shelter tour yesterday and really enjoyed it. Owen, our tour guide, was so knowledgeable and delivered the tour at a great pace, was really clear and had a great sense of humour too. As lifelong Bristolians we couldn’t believe what we have been waking over all these years! We loved the overview of Bristol’s history at the start which really set the scene for how devastating the air raid attacks were and how close they were to the corn street shelter. It was pretty incredible being down there and seeing all the fantastic artefacts and really getting a sense of what it would have been like. It’s a part of our city’s history I didn’t previously know that much about so thank you Owen for making it so interesting and engaging. I’ve already been recommending it to lots of others!

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Global800162

Apr 17, 2026

Great event in the centre - don’t miss it! - I was invited in this tour today April 17th by a friend. I thought it was just another walk round the historical centre of this beautiful city - but No! It was a trip into the old bomb shelters still largely preserved under St Nicks market. I was thrilled and ultimately totally uplifted by the experience and the amount of history I learned. I was born just after the war and in those shelters I saw two teddies and a toy dog just like the ones I had so long ago! Don’t worry - I picked them up but put them back in their bedding!! Thanks for the nostalgia and the huge amount of information about what happened in Bristol. A great outing for anyone seeking to look below the surface!

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From $17

up to 15 guests

1 - Adult