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Pero Bridge

Pero’s Bridge: how did Bristol’s memorial to the enslaved become a love-lock bridge? 

Pero’s Bridge: how did Bristol’s memorial to the enslaved become a love-lock bridge? 

The Pero footbridge was named after Pero Jones, an enslaved servant of John Pinney, a merchant from Bristol, UK, in honor of the role the region played in the slave trade. Pero was acquired as a slave from Mountravers plantation in the Caribbean by John Pinney when he was 12 years old. He worked and…

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