The congregation shuffle rolls on in Bristol England, and a cool £1million is to be made for Watchtower Britain.
Bristol - Hengrove has been disbanded as of May 2018 and is now merged into one of the prime real estate parts of the city in an area called Clifton, with Bristol-Redland congregation of JW's.
The hall is an old Victorian building, bought and paid for by Redland since the late 1940's, although since then, Bristol has seen expansion up until the 1990's to about 12 plus congregations in about 7 Kingdom Halls, and then reduced to 5 Kingdom Halls and 10 congregations. Redland has always stood alone with one congregation in it's hall.
As of September 2018 the Redland congregation is being kicked out of its £1,000,000 value building and moved lock stock and barrel to a rough northern suburb called Southmead and being forced to share with two other congregations in a nondescript 1970's brick built kingdom hall worth about £250,000.
To facilitate this, the Almondsbury congregation is being booted out of the Southmead building and moved out of the circuit into the next one and the inmates will have to drive north to share with Thornbury (who will now have to share for the first time)
There are other shuffles going on, but the net result is that WT gets the proceeds of £1 million (estimate) when Redland's hall is sold.
