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Better Bristol
The Bristol Civic Society Magazine - Issue 15 Autumn/Winter 2019
Inside l The Secret Fields of Narroways
l University Challenge l Festival of the Future City
l Student Accommodation l Bristol’s Performing Arts
l Bristol Civic Society Design Awards l Bristol in Forty-five Bridges
an independent force for a better Bristol
Contents
The chairman writes
CHAIR
Bristol Civic Society leads the way
in terms of the breadth and range 3
Front Cover:
Bristol of its activities, Simon Birch reports
W
Old Vic.
Photo: e welcomed which civic societies operate. Inevitably Bristol’s Bridges
Philip Vile. there is tremendous variation with
20-21 22-23
Ian Harvey,
Chief Executive
societies located in big cities, small We’re intrigued that Bristol’s bridges
towns and everything in between! are currently being highlighted. There
Bristol Civic Society: Who’s Who 3 17 of Civic Voice, is a recently published book by Jeff
Bristol Civic Society leads the Obituary. In his view Ian considered that:
to speak at the Society’s Lucas and two events in October:
General Enquiries way in terms of the breadth We celebrate the life of • Bristol Civic Society is a leading
Membership Secretary: David Giles and range of its activities, campaigner Craig Begg. Annual General Meeting in • Bristol Giving Day on Wednesday
society in terms of the breadth and
Simon Birch reports. 9th October 2019. This is organised by
0117 9621592 18-19 June. Civic Voice is the national range of its activities.
membership@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk 4-5 Festival of the
Quartet Community Foundation and
University Challenge. umbrella organisation for • Better Bristol is one of the best (if not the aim is to raise funds for 45 local
General Enquiries: Alan Morris Eugene Byrne looks at the impact Future City 2019. the very best?) civic society newsletters.
enquiries@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk The festival aims to be the civic societies across the charities. The challenge is to cross as
students are having on the city.
6-7 largest public debate about country and Ian is a founder • BCS has a very high level of many of Bristol’s 45 bridges as possibe
Organisation the future of cities, writes membership. – see the website for more details:
Chair: Simon Birch
Student Accommodation.
Andrew Kelly.
member with very extensive
John Payne keeps a watchful knowledge and appreciation of • Bristol is fortunate in that the City https://bristolgivingday.co.uk/
chair@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk eye on specialist student 20-21 Council has maintained resources in fundraising-support-bristol-giving-
Secretary: Mike Bates accommodation proposals. Bristol’s performing arts the ways in which volunteers city design and conservation – not the day/
secretary@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk 8-9 scene and its venues. run their societies. case in many other local authorities.
Treasurer: John Jones Major Developments in Bristol. Nic Billane continues his survey • Jeff Lucas himself will be giving a talk
of Bristol’s creative industries. Ian gave an excellent presentation Ian’s talk gave us all a great boost to based on his book on Wednesday 16th
treasurer@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk John Frenkel gives an overview.
providing an overview of the context in our morale – we must invite him back!
10-11 22-23 October – see events on back page
Communications and Events Bristol Civic Society From Brycgstow to Ashton Court Mansion.
Events: Nic Billane Design Awards 2019. Bristol in 45 bridges.
events@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk The four winning projects Jeff Lucas describes a Campaigns
Better Bristol Editor: Mike Manson are announced. mathematical puzzle that We are very pleased that there is
mageditor@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk 12 inspired a walk and a book. positive progress at St Michael’s. The
The School Streets Scheme 24
Webmaster: David Demery new owner – Norman Routledge – has
is coming to Bristol. The Confucius Culinary
webmaster@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk Kate Highton on plans to prepared detailed plans for the new
Arts Institute. roof and it is hoped that this will be in
Web and E-Mail Bulletin Editor: set up the School Streets
The 2019 Bristol Civic Society place very shortly.
Alan Morris scheme in Bristol. Student Prize: the winning
webeditor@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk 13 project by Sam Willett. We continue to campaign for a
Building Awards Scheme: Simon Birch The survival of the sustainable future for Ashton Court
Old Building of the Bristol
25
awards@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk Behind the blue curtain. Mansion following publication of
Royal Infirmary.
Blue Plaques: Gordon Young
John Frenkel writes about the Graham Egarr writes about the long awaited consultant’s report.
plaques@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk restoration and reuse of this the latest blue plaque. The City Council has just resolved
landmark building. Plus: Crusoe 300. to appoint agents and to market the
Campaigning
14-15 26 Mansion on a long lease. The Civic
Major Sites Group: John Frenkel Voices of Bristol –
The secret fields of Narroways. Society is being appointed as a “critical
johnfrenkel5@gmail.com Harry McPhillimy explains the Gentrification and Us friend” during the marketing and
Public Spaces, Transport and Planning: origins of Narroways and the by Henry Palmer. disposal process. No details yet but
Alan Morris on-going battle to preserve Mike Manson reviews this
very positive progress in principle!
alan@morrises.fastmail.fm this Local Green Space. thought provoking book. Bristol’s Railings However, an urban myth has
16 27 developed that the metal in the
Planning Applications Group: John Payne
johnpayne997@btinternet.com Destruction and renewal Join us!
A request please for your help!
In the Second World War metal
railings was unsuitable for use and Simon Birch
– one and the same . . . ? The Bristol Civic Society that many railings were dumped in
Heritage Forum: Steve Davis Gordon Young considers the railings were taken from many of our Chair, Bristol Civic Society
Steve@noma-uk.com needs you. Bristol needs us. estuaries, the huge amount of metal
demolition and reconstruction gardens and parks as an important chair@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk
of the Clifton Suspension 28 source of scrap metal for the war
even affecting compasses
Links with Other Bristol Groups Bridge tollhouses. Events. on boats!
Planning Network:
effort. We can still see the sawn off
“stubs” on many front garden walls. I have been unable to find any
networkadministrator@bristolnpn.net EDITOR ADVISORY PANEL Copy date for
Mike Manson Alan Morris, Eugene Byrne, next edition But was the scrap actually used in definitive evidence either way – can
Bristol Walking Alliance: Alan Morris
mageditor@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk Nic Billane, Simon Birch. 1 March 2020. blast furnaces? At the time there was you assist? Do you know of anyone
enquiries@bristolwalkingalliance.org.uk
All articles in Better a critical shortage of scrap metal, whose relatives were involved in
Conservation Advisory Panel:
Stephen Wickham
DESIGNER
Tracey Feltham
DISTRIBUTION TEAM
Led by John Payne.
Bristol are the opinion partly due to submarine activity in the railing collection? Or who delivered Not already a member?
of the author. Articles Atlantic reducing imports from the railings to the steelworks? Can you
stephen_wickham@btinternet.com info@quirecreative.co.uk PRINTERS don’t necessarily USA, hence the widespread collection point to any published information Why not join TODAY!
Historic England: John Frenkel reflect the views of
johnfrenkel5@gmail.com
Sebright, Bristol. of railings. which might help? See page 27 for more details...
Bristol Civic Society.
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University Numbers
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• Bristol Uni reckons that each
student spends between £9,000 and
challenge
£14,500 pa on accommodation and
living expenses.
4 • Tuition fees for a UK under- 5
graduate are typically £9,000-plus.
For overseas students these can be
Student numbers
Student numbers
considerably higher – up to three
What shall we do times as much.
• UWE’s annual turnover is around
with all the students?
£270m, while Bristol’s is about
£660m. Most of this money comes
Overseas students are big business. Trenchard Street. Purpose from tuition fees, funding and
Photo Eugene Byrne built flats for students. research grants.
The term-time population of Bristol has has over 3,000 students from non-EU work was exported to cheaper labour in • UWE has around 3,700 full-time
never been bigger, and expansion of student overseas countries (we don’t know less developed economies. staff while Bristol has 5,300. A large
numbers at UWE and the University of Bristol 57,000
students
exactly how many are Chinese),
and Bristol currently has something
Nowadays we make items dependent proportion of these are on higher
on a high degree of technical skill than average earnings, and beyond
seems set to continue. Eugene Byrne looks at live in over 4,000 students from Asia and and innovation. Departments of both these numbers are many temps and
the impact they’re having on the city. Bristol. Australasia of whom the great majority casual staff.
T
universities, particularly in science,
are from mainland China. IT and engineering, are involved in • The University of Bristol calculated
he changes to Bristol’s We don’t know the precise numbers, but the University of the West of England. In recent years both universities have numerous partnerships with private that in 2014/15 it and its students
demographics wrought there are around three times as many In 2018/19 the University of Bristol had also hosted around 1,300-1,400 students sector firms at the leading edge of supported almost 13,300 people
students at the University of Bristol and just over 26,000 students of all types. apiece from EU countries. We don’t technology. Both are also involved in in employment outside of the
by the expansion of our the University of the West of England fostering new businesses.
Numbers for the coming academic year know for certain what the impact of university itself. During the same
universities in recent (UWE) as there were 30 years ago. will be similar or larger, meaning that Brexit will be on these numbers. Nor do year it estimated that students who
Bristol, particularly, is deep into
decades have been no less In 2017/18 there were nearly 31,000 this autumn something in the region we know what effect Brexit will have numerous partnerships, such as Engine did not already live in the local area,
dramatic than the changes to students (part-time and full-time, of 57,000 students from these two on the intake from the wider world, but Shed and (within it) the SETsquared but who had come from elsewhere,
both universities are assuming their spent almost £260m on local
the built environment. undergraduate and postgraduate) at universities will be living here. Bristol business incubator. Since
transport and food and personal
While some are living with their intakes will continue to grow in the opening in 2012 it claims to have raised
coming years. £432m and creating over 1,300 jobs (see items from retail and leisure outlets.
parents, or are mature students renting
www.setsquared.co.uk). • The University of Bristol reckoned
or owning their own places (around
10% in the case of Bristol, probably
Students make up a One global success story is Ultrahaptics, that its students’ visiting friends and
somewhat more for UWE), hall and big chunk of Bristol’s a University of Bristol spin-out which relatives spent over £4.5m in 2014/15
460,000 total population. uses ultrasound to create “three- on transport, local hotels, restaurants
campus accommodation has not
dimensional shapes and textures that and bars and visiting cultural,
kept pace with the growth in student
The University of Bristol, particularly, can be felt, but not seen.” This alone has recreational and sports attractions.
numbers from homes outside Bristol.
has long since unveiled huge plans raised £31m in investment. UWE’s friends and relatives would
Whatever the actual number is, add millions more to the total.
for the area around Temple Meads Aside from these visible businesses,
students make up a big chunk of
station which are set to dramatically Bristol benefits from high levels of
Bristol’s 460,000 (Office for National
change the character of the area. The “graduate retention”, that is, people
Statistics mid-2017 estimate)
“Temple Quarter Campus” is set to choosing to remain in the city when
total population.
shift Bristol’s centre of gravity and do their studies are complete and joining
While we know that the number of UK much to change the character of the city the local workforce, often in highly-
over-18s going on to university education itself. (See www.bristol.ac.uk/temple- skilled and well-paid work, or starting
has risen massively in recent decades, quarter-campus/new-campus) businesses of their own.
we’ve also had a huge increase in
Bristol’s historic manufacturing base Manufacturing graduates is now
students coming to study from overseas.
is now long gone. The times when one of the city’s principal industries,
Undergraduates from China, which Bristolians made workaday things like and while it brings problems and
both universities attract, are now a boots, ballpoint pens or packaging went challenges, it has been a remarkable
Students bring new life to central Bristol. visible feature of Bristol life. UWE out decades ago when much of this success story.
Where will we put them all? sprung up too, most of these offering all question of where we put them all has and St Philip’s Marsh (about 3,000 elsewhere in the city). Speaking last year, Cllr Nicola Beech,
mod cons – every student wants their proved a headache for policymakers. “bed spaces” in all) with other large Cabinet Member for Spatial Planning
The classic undergraduate model – first So much (though not all) new student
own personal ensuite bathroom – and The March 2019 Bristol City Council developments in Bedminster and at and City Design said: “The surge in
year in hall and second and third years accommodation is to be kept away from
with corresponding rents. Broadmead and “Frome Gateway”, the student numbers is bringing significant
in rented accommodation in town Local Plan Review talks of how in established residential communities.
area bordered by Pennywell Road and economic and social benefits … At the
– still applies with the University of The downside to this is that students central Bristol “Student accommodation Whether the Council can withstand
Newfoundland Street. same time, we know concentrations of
Bristol and UWE. But with increased don’t pay council tax, but they place as will be carefully managed to avoid the demands of developers in years student accommodation can displace
numbers overall, it’s no longer just a much demand on council services. On undue concentration and directed Purpose-built student accommodation to come remains to be seen, because or prevent genuinely balanced
case of them renting houses. the plus side, these developments don’t towards identified areas both in the city elsewhere, says the Council, should there’s big money at stake. Landlords communities from flourishing. These
put any demand on existing housing centre and elsewhere.” be strictly controlled, avoiding the love students; they don’t stay long,
We have seen the conversion of old changes to the Local Plan would
office and commercial buildings in stock, and they’ve brought new life to The Council’s plans are currently creation of student ghettoes, not conflict and their parents can be made to sign give us extra controls to manage
central Bristol into student flats. Several central Bristol. geared towards putting some of the with plans for affordable housing and undertakings that the rent will be paid the expansion of student housing in
purpose-built blocks of flats have With even more students on the way, the new accommodation in Temple Quarter be car-free (and deter parking of cars and any damage or liabilities paid for. Bristol.”
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cumulatively unbalance the local
FEATURE
FEATURE
community, hamper its development
and diminish the supply of
employment generating floorspace.
In particular, we have objected to the
student element of the proposals for the
6 former Siddhu Warehouse in Surrey 7
Street/Portland Square and the site
incorporating the Blue Mountain Club
Student accommodation
Student accommodation
in Stokes Croft.
There is also pressure for inappropriate
student accommodation in the Old
Market/Midland Road area where
we support the local Community
Association’s desire to promote rather
than hinder community development.
Whilst there is some logic in locating
student accommodation close to
the new Temple Quarter university
precinct, the Society is campaigning
to prevent development which could
prejudice the redevelopment of the St
Philip’s Marsh area before the policy
2-18 Stokes Croft. The Society is opposed to student flats framework is produced. We are also
and seeks a mixed development of flats and work space.
keen to avoid an overly tall benchmark
Student accommodation
Above left, Bristol Civic Society was broadly supportive of schemes aiming to bring vacant office for student accommodation in the area
blocks back into use. Above right, Brunel House. Former Council offices converted to student being established.
accommodation. Broadly supported by the Society.
Bristol Civic Society will continue
the creation of areas with a student buildings in inappropriate locations
to keep a watchful eye on specialist
accommodation monoculture which and other proposals which would
Bristol Civic Society keeps a watchful eye on specialist student accommodation student accommodation proposals. The
fails to balance the city’s other needs be overbearing in their locality. It
pressure shows no sign of easing and it
for new homes and viable retail and is also important that the Council’s
proposals. It is important, writes John Payne, that it is carefully managed to secure employment space. This situation could aims of maintaining mixed and
is important that it is carefully managed
to secure the potential benefits while
the potential benefits while minimising harmful impacts. not continue. The University of Bristol balanced communities with a variety
B
has agreed to coordinate its expansion of floorspace uses are upheld and the minimising harmful impacts.
in cooperation with the Council. The Society will seek to ensure that these
ristol is home to The pressure for developing student at university for around 30 weeks a
accommodation is reflected in the work year which is not ideal for supporting Local Plan Review proposes two new aspirations are implemented.
two well respected planning policies. To spread student
of both the Planning Applications shops and services. They only stay in More specifically, the following
universities. They Group (PAG) and the Major Sites an area for a relatively short period of accommodation from the current
examples of the Society’s interventions
enhance the city’s Group of the Bristol Civic Society. time and are less likely to be interested concentrations in districts BS1 and
illustrate how we have responded
This has been particularly evident in the longer term development of BS2, specific areas are identified
reputation, bring jobs and to some of the proposals. We were
in the city centre where a number of communities. Too much student broadly supportive of schemes aiming
money and are closely office buildings have been converted accommodation can also make it more We will object to tall
to bring vacant office blocks back into
integrated with some of to student accommodation or replaced difficult for small businesses and other buildings in inappropriate use or redevelop tired or rundown
Bristol’s key industries. by purpose built student housing. activities to find floorspace. locations and other buildings in the Rupert Street/Nelson
Together, the universities There is also growing pressure for In 2011, when the Council adopted its proposals which would Street area and which contributed to
student accommodation in the vicinity current planning Core Strategy, no one be overbearing in the regeneration of this area. Examples
have roughly 57,000 students of the new Temple Quarter Enterprise foresaw that the student population their locality. include the Courtrooms, Fromegate
who bring vitality and buzz to Campus particularly in the St Philips of the University of Bristol would House and the New Bridewell student
the city. During their stay in area. Increasingly, the pressure is increase so much. To prevent accommodation.
moving into inner city areas such as for new student accommodation in
Bristol, the students have to live hollowing out areas of family housing Temple Quarter, St. Philip’s Marsh and The Society is also encouraged by the
Stokes Croft, St Pauls, Old Market by conversion to houses in multiple
somewhere. Traditionally, this and Bedminster. Bedminster. Policy will also require latest proposals for the former BRI
student accommodation the 2011 policy commercial student accommodation building at the junction of Marlborough
has been in halls of residence to Purpose built student accommodation supported new student accommodation providers to include new homes in Street and Lower Maudlin Street (See
begin with before students find can have positive and negative ‘unless it would lead to a harmful developments that exceed 100 student page 13). We objected to a nearby
impacts on their locations. Advantages concentration of this use.’ The bed spaces.
flatshares, bedsits and other include bringing life back to empty University of Bristol has allowed the
proposal to shoehorn another block
private accommodation in later Bristol Civic Society broadly supports of student accommodation into the
buildings and run down areas, market to provide the accommodation
the direction of travel of this area Marlborough House student block
years. More recently, firms releasing residential accommodation for its increasing population.
of policy development. However, it where Marlborough Street joins with
for use by the non-student community A consequence has been that once
such as Unite have spotted a and providing direct and indirect commercial student accommodation will continue to scrutinise the impact Dighton Street. This would have over-
business opportunity and have employment opportunities. However, providers had used up the supply of of specific proposals. We will seek a developed the site and been harmful
high quality of design which would to living conditions in the present
developed a range of rented too much student accommodation in an obsolescent office blocks in the central
building. It has been refused.
area can unbalance the overall diversity area, their business model enabled allow for student accommodation to
student accommodation often be converted to standard residential
of a community and take land needed them to outbid ordinary residential The Society is particularly concerned Marlborough House. Additional student
in fairly large blocks housing for affordable and other residential developers for potential development use if the demand for student housing about proposals in the Stokes Croft/ accommodation has been refused. The Society
several hundred students. development. Students are generally sites. It is in no one’s interest to allow were to decline. We will object to tall St Pauls area which we feel would objected to the proposal.
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Major Developments in Bristol
MS Group
MS Group
29-32 Portland Square. easternmost development area will be Former Esso Garage tower’s architectural quality,
8 Bristol’s longest purpose-build student accommodation it fails to satisfy the Council’s 9
of about 750 bedspaces. The next
Bath Road Totterdown.
running ‘building Urban Planning guide.
at risk’, blight. development area will be a new Oasis There is planning permission to build A critical factor will be the
Major Developments
Major Developments
Academy, a 1,600-place secondary school 152 new dwellings in four buildings ability of families on low Above, Bath Road former filling station.
to serve central and eastern Bristol. The comprising a 15-storey tower, two incomes to afford the high service Below left, The Totterdown Tower fails to
third development area will deliver central blocks of 6 and 7-storeys and charges. The scheme will have a satisfy the Council’s Urban Planning guide.
about 400 new homes. The site nearest a 3-storey eastern block. The Society minimum of 30 affordable homes and
Marsh Bridge will be employment space welcomed the regeneration of this house about 45 children. There is no Bristol University – New
taken by Bristol University. The scheme site which is a long-standing negative children’s play area. Campus Temple Island
will realise the Council’s aspiration to feature in the Bath Road. The central
and eastern blocks demonstrate the
student accommodation.
make a new canal side promenade. The
Society supports the proposal. Bristol potential for densification. We objected An outline planning permission
Civic Society’s full response, concerns to the “Totterdown tower” which at 65 determines the mass and height of
and suggestions are on our website. metres, would break the skyline of the the buildings of the new Temple
escarpment, a valuable landscape asset, Meads campus. The University
Former Avon Fire and Rescue and dominate the domestically scaled has published the design for its
Service Headquarters Bath Road. Whatever you think of the student accommodation on Temple
Temple Back. Island. The Society has consistently
Cubex, the developers of Finzel’s Reach, works well. This is a prominent site supported the new campus and
345 Bath Road. that merits a building with innovative
seek permission to redevelop the former from the outset said that the campus
Fire Service HQ building. The scheme This site is next to the Majestic Wine architecture. We suggest architectural should be distinguished by buildings
would mix offices with over 300 new Warehouse on the Bath Road. The features to define the profiles of the three as recognisably ‘Bristol’ as the Wills
flats and include a 16-storey building Society supports Galliford Try’s proposal blocks. The fenestration does not create Memorial Building. The proposed
on corner of Counterslip and Temple to build on this formerly developed land. any hierarchy between the floors. There architecture is disappointing. These
Back. The residential building adopts a The scheme would deliver a perimeter is much to support in the scheme such as ‘anywhere’ commercial structures
communal living approach that devotes block of about 130 new homes around a the green edge to the Bath Road, a new do not indicate that they are part of
10% of space to communal use; a new green central courtyard. The fall of the pavement in a green corridor to the west, an exciting future campus. There
land enables the courtyard to be built on set-back from the road and greening is no better place in Bristol for a
John Frenkel, convener of Bristol Civic Society’s form of housing in the city centre. The
a deck above a basement car park which other areas. contemporary landmark building.
Society supports redevelopment but not
Major Sites Group gives an overview. the 16-storey tower which would rise The University has an unconstrained
from the back of the pavement without Former Central opportunity to use modern architecture
BRI Marlborough new Temple Meads and Fire Station. and materials. The purpose of the
any set-back. This closely built up area
multi-storey car park. St. Philips Marsh. would feel oppressive at street level, new campus is to signal that Bristol
(See Better Bristol Issue 14.) draw attention away from the Grade II* University is at the forefront of the
In the spring issue I reported that the development of new technology, design
listed Generator House on the opposite
Permission was refused to University Council instructed Mott MacDonald, and sustainability. Temple Meads
side of Counterslip and obstruct the light
Hospitals Bristol for a new 820-place planning consultants, to coordinate Station is an example of how 19th
to the Templebridge House flats on the
car park. The Society opposed the proposals to redevelop the massive area century Bristol used new materials and
north side of Temple Back. The scheme’s
of St. Philip’s Marsh. Plans to redevelop architecture to signal the arrival of new
application because the scheme would ambitious density could compromise the
Temple Meads Station also appear technology and ideas.
fail to deliver the public benefits that quality of the future residents’ amenities.
to progress but there is no published
the Trust claimed and further overload The Society has urged the Council not
information. Temple Island residential.
the local roads which are at a standstill to permit the offer of communal space The proposed architecture
for substantial periods every day.
Silverthorne Lane St. Philips. to compromise the need for all the flats is disappointing.
This huge regeneration scheme is a to satisfy the space standards policy.
Western Harbourside (land major investment in the Council’s vision Planning decision pending.
around the Cumberland Basin). for Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone. The 7 Redcross Street. terrace once spanned the site. However,
St Ph
In the Spring I wrote that Arup would Society supports the redevelopment of ilips C
ause The Society welcomes the construction the scheme would erect a 9-storey
way
the former industrial land that runs from of more city centre homes but regrets building on the western boundary of St.
outline the options to replace the
Avon Street for more than 500 metres that we cannot support this scheme Matthias Park. The new block would
elevated Brunel Way. Three options de
r
east to the St. Philip’s Causeway along Feeoad to build 64 flats. The proposal would shadow the park throughout the year.
have now been identified and are R
The harmful impact of the 9-storey
the north bank of the Feeder Canal. The demolish the crude 1970 red spar faced
out for public consultation. More building on the park and its dominance
building. The new Redcross Street façade
next issue. over the recreated terrace would
would consist of two new wings in a
29 - 32 Portland Square. contemporary recreation of a Georgian outweigh the planning gain of a new
(See Better Bristol Issue 14.)
l
na ad terrace to flank the retained five bays of ‘Georgian’ terrace.
Ca
d er er Ro Sh
Fee Feed or the grade II listed façade. The truncated STOP PRESS: Scheme withdrawn.
This terrace of four houses has been tS
tre
et
Bristol’s longest running ‘building at These are the edited highlights of developments, which affect the Society’s full responses.
risk’, blight. The Society opposes the Silverthorne Lane some of the city’s development greatest number of residents and
proposal. A huge The Major Sites Group (MSG)
revised proposal to substitute student activity. It is critical for the Society where local representation is weakest. meets every six weeks. The Group
regeneration scheme. to meet developers of large projects The Society supports development
accommodation for the permitted needs new members. Please contact
early in the design process. MSG and modern architecture. Items on johnfrenkel5@gmail.com.
residential scheme. Meanwhile the
tends to concentrate on city centre the Society’s website have links to the
buildings remain at risk.
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Bristol Civic Society
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10
Design Awards 2019 11
Design Awards
Design Awards
Andy Reynolds, Craig O’Brien, Katharine Hegarty, Simon Birch.
A
lways a highlight of from early evening for drinks Society member, Jonathan
the Society’s year, and as a base for visitors to Foyle.
the Design Awards explore the entire complex, Four winning projects were selected
presentation event both old and new. A large by the Awards Panel from a very Challender Court Project. Part of a city wide initiative to Suzanne Rolt, Chief Executive of St George’s and
surpassed expectations when crowd took this opportunity competitive field. Project developers deliver more Council houses. Photo, Craig Aukland, Fotohaus. team accept their award from Jonathan Foyle.
it was held in early June. prior to the Awards ceremony and their design teams were invited to Peverell Court, Challender St George’s Bristol Architect George Ferrari, of Architects:
The venue, St George’s, was itself, which was compered make short illustrated presentations Court and Suffolk Close Architects: Patel Taylor Patel Taylor, gave a fascinating insight
superb, with the bar open by architectural historian, and introducing each scheme. Architects: Emmett Russell Suzanne Rolt, Chief Executive of St into the design approach which he
A double act by Martyn Pursey, George’s, explained that St George’s and his team adopted. This delivered
from Bristol City Council, and Tom Bristol is one of the country’s leading superbly with the Panel very impressed
Bristol Old Vic Paintworks – Phase 3 Russell of Emmett Russell Architects concert halls, a music venue of by the design quality of the new
Architects: Haworth Tomkins Architects: Stride Treglown described how three infill sites in north international note, boasting a superb extension, unashamedly modern, yet
Surely one of Bristol’s gems if not its Over the past 15 years the Paintworks Bristol have been transformed from acoustic and unique atmosphere working harmoniously with the Greek
crowning glory! The Old Vic was built regeneration project has gradually disused garages to new, high-quality which attracts the world’s best artists. Revival church of Robert Smirke. Both
in 1766 and is close to the heart of most transformed a former Victorian paint apartments and bungalows. This is part Suzanne is delighted that it now has a externally and internally the new
Bristolians. The Panel considered that and varnish factory next to the river of a city wide initiative to deliver more high quality new extension to match extension works superbly and delivers
“the refurbishment and extension of Avon into a new, vibrant, mixed-use Council houses. this success.
on its brief.
this Grade 1 listed building would district. There are a number of architectural Change was essential to provide
always have been a challenging Closing the event Jonathan Foyle
Ashley Nicholson gave a lively solutions that are common between additional accommodation, improve
commission for any architect but circulation and create a fully accessible commented on the very high quality
overview of the scheme describing the three sites which the Panel
Haworth Tomkins have pulled it off acknowledged as unique and venue. There is now a stunning of the award-winning schemes,
how Phase 3 is the latest part to be
beautifully”. completed and is a mixed-use, new identifiable, and therefore this blue pavilion-style extension, with exhibition their geographical spread and their
Replacing the previous side extension, build project. Over 200 residential and plaque has been jointly awarded for and performance spaces, and Café Bar, contribution to the lively character of
which was only built in 1972, the Bristol Old Vic. Refurbishment and live/work units have been developed the three sites. In fact, three separate located on a tight site to the side of the the City. He thanked St George’s for
designers have created a light and airy extension. Photo, Philip Vile. while Verve Properties (who were plaques were ordered, one for each existing building and set back from the their exemplary hospitality in hosting
foyer area which also complements and area. The new timber frame structure responsible for the earlier phases and building! main façade facing Great George Street. the Awards.
blends with the now exposed original combines with a glazed façade and roof continue to manage the whole site) The placement and design of the
building. It houses a new studio theatre to contrast with but also complement have built offices and event spaces. buildings was a key challenge to
as well as delivering a café / restaurant the existing building. Architects Stride Treglown placed the avoid overlooking neighbouring
entire development on a podium with properties. The solution includes
a series of taller, apartment blocks metal screening which allows light to
along the northern edge, providing the first-floor flats whilst minimising
views over the river. A network of views into neighbouring gardens.
pedestrianised streets, alleyways, Each site provides sustainable urban
public plazas and courtyards provide drainage solutions which positively
access to the buildings while car influence its landscape character.
parking is hidden away underneath. The residents access their entrances
Vibrant colour, robust, industrial across footbridges which sit above the
materials and other design cues have overflow beds.
been brought across from the earlier Each of the three buildings uses
phases and street furniture encourages simple well executed detailing with a
residents to meet their neighbours and limited palette of materials consisting
build the community. of: variegated brickwork, slate roof
The Panel considered that Paintworks 3 tiles, powder coated aluminium, block
provides an excellent blueprint for how paving and timber fencing.
we want urban developments to be – The Panel considered that “these
people focussed, well connected and three schemes not only deliver high-
where the community can live, work quality council housing in Bristol, but
and play together. they raise the bar for more design-led
council housing schemes in the future”.
Left, Paintworks. An excellent blueprint
for how we want urban developments to be. Right, St George’s Bristol, stunning new
Photo, Evoke Pictures. extension. Photo, Evan Dawson.
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The survival of the Old Building
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12
of the Bristol Royal Infirmary 13
John Frenkel outlines
the protracted process
School streets
Bristol Royal Infirmary
that has ensured the
restoration and reuse of
T
this landmark building
he BRI Old Building
in Marlborough Street,
the one on the south
of the Street with
‘Charity Universal’ above the
door, is a landmark building
with a remarkable history.
A chaotic It was a Georgian foundation hospital,
situation on the fourth charity hospital to open The disfigured eighteenth century façade of the Bristol Infirmary.
the roads. in Britain in the eighteenth century. Old Building because their reuse the Old Building into 62
School streets
Despite unsightly later additions, the inspector said that too flats. The remainder of the
implementing temporary road closures disfigured eighteenth century façade
around schools at pick-up and drop-off much of the original site would house around
and forecourt remain distinguished. fabric had been lost.
time. First trialled in Edinburgh and 400 students with some
The prospect of demolition produced a Unite then applied for
now running in Hackney, Glasgow, street level retail. The
coming to Bristol
huge public reaction; the Old Building permission to demolish.
Solihull and many other London proposal would restore
is a source of civic pride.
boroughs, these ‘school streets’ aim to Following a further the façade of the Old
encourage active travel, improve air This story begins when the University application, by a Redcliffe Building. The unsightly
quality and decrease congestion around Hospitals Bristol Trust decided to sell resident, Historic England later extensions and
schools. In most enforced ‘school street’ the Old Building because it was no recommended that the former drainpipes would go as part of
Kate Highton explains how ‘school streets’ aim to zones residents, blue badge holders, longer fit for clinical purposes. Unite hospital chapel be listed Grade II. S.C. the restoration. The height of the new
Students, the student accommodation
encourage active travel, improve air quality and local businesses and buses can apply
provider, bought the building. In 2015
Fripp, a notable nineteenth century buildings would be compatible with the
for exemption and still drive through.
I
Bristol architect, designed the little- surrounding listed buildings. Although
decrease congestion around schools. Local residents welcome the measure as scheme one appeared. Unite proposed altered chapel in the Gothic Revival not all the details are published Bristol
they are often negatively impacted by to keep the Old Building, convert the style in polychromatic materials. Civic Society said it supports the
t’s rare to meet a parent or that children in Year 4 and younger
upper floors into its headquarters,
need to be accompanied to and from school run traffic. Parents who need to Listing stopped the demolition. Unite direction of travel. The Society has
carer with primary school school and the biggest concern cited drive are still able to do so but will not adapt the basement and ground floor made a second appeal because the met the developers and architects and
be able to drive right up to the gates. into a small medical teaching unit, clear
aged children who doesn’t by parents is road danger. This leaves
the site to the south to build student
process to list the chapel and Unite’s made detailed responses throughout
many working parents or those who Bristol City Council are planning to appeal against the Listing, delayed the drawn-out process. At the outset we
relate to the stressful live far from school tied to driving their
accommodation, office and retail space. the planning decision. The planning said that there was too much student
set up their own pilot scheme next
nature of the school run. The new building included a 20-storey committee confirmed that it would accommodation which should be mixed
children to and from school. year as part of their efforts to decrease
tower to house the 742 students that have refused the second application.
Getting children up, fed and dressed, The situation in Bristol is exacerbated children’s exposure to polluted air. with new flats to contribute to the city
Unite said were necessary to make
finding the correct P.E. kit, trip letter, by a lack of affordable public transport. Though at most Bristol schools where After confirmation that the chapel’s centre housing stock.
the scheme commercially viable. In
snack etc. before running the gauntlet The inevitable result is a chaotic measuring took place, NO2 levels Listing was secure, the Council extended We believe that in this final form of
September 2016, a Council planning
of crowds of parents, children and situation on the roads and at the school were below legal limits, these monitors the conservation area to include the Old development will be successful for
committee refused planning permission.
traffic to reach school on time can feel gates. Rushed parents hover close to the record a 24 hour average. Readings over Building. Unite withdrew their appeals Unite. It is a pleasure to acknowledge
a 12 hour (daytime) period were up to The principal reasons were the impact and a long silence followed.
like a major achievement. A three form school entrance to let children out of the efforts of council officers whose
40% higher and are likely to be higher on the Grade I Listed St James’s Priory
entry primary school needs to get 610 their cars. Others fail to notice measures In 2019, came scheme three. Unite had determination and initiative will result
still at drop-off and pick-up time. and the surrounding Grade II assets;
children and their accompanying adults designed to protect children such as the changed architects to Alec French who in the restoration and reuse of this
the loss of Locally Listed buildings and
through the gates before 9.00am. That is yellow zigzags. In an effort to indicate Parents and teachers are confident presented a proposal to convert and landmark building.
poor-quality design. Unite appealed
quite a feat and no surprise that school that they are only stopping briefly that reducing traffic outside schools
the refusal. In 2017, scheme two
gates become congested and stressful. many leave their engines running will create a healthier and calmer start
appeared which proposed to demolish
As traffic danger on our roads has increasing air pollution. to the school day that will benefit the
the Old Building and replace it with
whole community.
increased, children’s independence has But it doesn’t have to be this way. an ‘anywhere’ student accommodation
been restricted. Children of the 1950s In Switzerland school places are Kate Highton is a parent and doctor block. The Old Building had no statutory
were allowed freedom from adult allocated by the safest route to school who is part of the School Streets Bristol protection against demolition, it was not
supervision that modern children can and children are expected to travel campaign group. You can join the listed, local listing gives no protection
only dream of and most would have independently. In Britain councils are school streets email list by emailing against demolition, and it was outside
made their way independently to and waking up to the economic and health schoolstreetsbristol@gmail.com or the St. James Parade Conservation Area.
from school. The general consensus value of car-free space. Councils up and following them on Facebook. Historic England had advised on three
from modern parents and schools is down the country are taking action by occasions against national listing of the Marlborough Street Elevation – Initial Proposals
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The secret
The ‘artisan district’ of Rail who at first demanded the council
FEATURE
FEATURE
St Werburghs grew up take responsibility for Mina Road tunnel
around the hill. as well.
fields of
Local people raised thousands of pounds
and a deal was struck. The council
bought Narroways and leased it back
14 to a locally run trust as a Millennium 15
Green with a lease for 999 years! Enough
Narroways
money was secured to create fences
Narroways
Narroways
around the site, with simple post and rail
fencing to protect the skyline view. We
were also able to commission sculptor
Julian P Warren to create a cast iron
bench with little creatures sculpted in
and Landmark created our signature
Narroways is an oasis in the city. Harry marker posts, information boards and
Marbled White logo.
McPhillimy explains its origins and the We have spent the past thirty years
on-going battle to preserve this Local Green single-mindedly persuading people
Space - just a 10 minute walk from IKEA. that Narroways is not a vacuum, a
T
piece of waste ground, a mound, to
his was once a place moist, but well drained fertile alkaline be filled with buildings or industry,
soils of the area sustain hundreds of motorbike scrambling, all night raves
of raw red scars ash trees, creating a leafy corner in the and rubbish.
carved by Victorian inner city. Energetic local volunteers have
navvies through a The land was in the hands of religious planted hedges and trees, erected nest
orders, then wealthy individuals. Sir boxes, repaired fences, strimmed and
little hill on the edge of the John Greville Smyth was one of the scythed meadows for hay to protect the
Purdown ridge. It expanded landowners whose land was purchased meadow flowers, recorded butterflies
for the Great Western and Midland and birds, led wildlife walks and
the urban despoliation beyond railways. The engineer Charles
until one dog was seriously injured. chance to lease the gardens and all of apart when the compulsory purchase guided dawn chorus outings. Litter
Police would raid the illegal gambling the Narroways land. The first wildlife land development aspect was revealed.
Baptist Mills, but enabled the Richardson described the extraordinary activities that also took place on the hill. surveys were done and amazing Narroways remained a haven.
is removed, tagging painted over,
lengths he went to in the construction of grass fires put out, and brambles cut
routes for the cutting edge Courting couples also used the footpaths meadows explored. Marbled White We were ready for the next threat to back. And cut back again. And again.
embankments and cuttings in the area, around Narroways to go walking butterflies! slow worms and lizards!
steam technology of the time - creating firm foundations and avoiding together and one such stroll ended in Bats flitted around the ash trees in the
Narroways. A group formed, Narroways Another local sculptor, Kevin Hughes
landslips that could have dammed up Action Group (NAG) when we got wind created a wonderful cast iron signpost
the railways. a savage murder by one Ted Palmer evening. The value of this green corner of British Rail’s intention to auction off for the cutting. Local Wildlife Presenter
nearby streams and unleashed a deluge of his fiancé Ada James in 1913 on the was at last being recognised.
Those scars healed over the years, wild on the city of Bristol. the land to the highest bidder. We had Steve England champions the site.
flowers and trees seeded, and eventually footbridge over the Severn Beach line. Another far more substantial threat seen the destruction wrought upon
The steam trains headed to Avonmouth Narroways is the most biodiverse patch
wildlife crept back. As the houses and But civilising forces were also at work – to Narroways came in 1989 – the nearby Royate Hill by the opportunist of land in this corner of Bristol, at a
roads, brick pits and factories pressed and Wales, to Kingswood and London, animal welfare agencies put paid to the Advanced Transport for Avon Metro landfill firm that had bought it. A
smoking and sparking and likely time when our air quality continues
all around, the scarred hill became a dog and cock fighting, Narroways was scheme chose Narroways as the place well-organised campaign of publicity to deteriorate, insect populations are
sanctuary; a green space in the grey. triggering fires that, along with teams considered in the 1880s as a potential to store all their materials, equipment and petitioning culminated in a huge
of railway maintenance workers, and disappearing and people desperately
The early history of the St Werburghs new park to serve, in particular, the and vehicles if they got the go-ahead demonstration of up to 800 people on 9th need accessible green space for their
local scavenging for fuel, prevented burgeoning population of Eastville but for their project. Although a metro February 1997 demanding Narroways be
area is little known. A Roman grave the woodland regenerating for a long health and even their sanity. Doubly
was found in nearby brick workings. the better located Eastville Park was for the Bristol area has always been a kept as open space. Bristol City Council protected as a Millennium Green
time. Arthur Salmon described how in constructed instead. worthy aim, this privatised project fell entered into negotiations with British
A medieval treaty allowed the friars the late nineteenth century the slopes and, since last year, as a Local Nature
and communality of Bristol to share the became covered in grass and “ boys, Narroways became a forgotten place Reserve it is now also to be zoned as
precious water supply of the nearby in spite of all prohibitions, loved to by the mid 20th Century. One former ‘Local Green Space’ on the Bristol Local
Boiling Wells. The area is Ashley, scramble around them. Sometimes resident, Jan Keats, knew them as ‘the Plan, the highest value of urban green
previously Asselega. The name comes in summer the grass is fired and the secret fields’. The railways declined, space. Its real value to wildlife and local
from the old English ‘aesc’, an ash tree green crumbled away before a low red the Midland railway closed altogether. people will only continue to increase.
and ‘leah’, a wood. To this day, the flame…for a long time after there are These years allowed, at last, the
great black patches; but the grass grows ecosystem of Narroways to start to
The beautiful Marbled
better for it in the end” recover. From a handful of trees an
White butterfly.
Ash and Sycamore wood grew. The
The ‘artisan district’ of St Werburghs meadow grasslands blossomed and
grew up around the hill, once the sustained a myriad of butterflies, slow
church was moved there from Corn worms and other hidden creatures.
Street in 1879. The church struggled, Hidden behind railway fences few
however, to maintain its influence on knew of this little five-acre Eden.
this impoverished, periodically flooded
district. Working class men gravitated to In the early 1980s British Rail tried
the hill for their wilder escapades – prize to win approval for a couple of three
fighting and cock fighting. Dog fighting storey blocks on the former Wren
was also once in vogue – Bull terriers allotment site (now the Community
were matched for weight, and on a Gardens) but local opposition Energetic local volunteers have planted hedges
Sunday morning a circle marked out and prevented it and instead BR offered the and trees, erected nest boxes, repaired fences,
A volunteer cuts a meadow. a line drawn across which they fought pioneers of St Werburghs City Farm the strimmed and scythed meadows.
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Destruction and renewal Obituary
FEATURE
FEATURE
16 – one and the same . . . ? Craig 17
Gordon Young had ‘access all areas’ to film the demolition and reconstruction
Begg
Tollhouses
Obituary
of the Clifton Suspension Bridge tollhouses. It got him thinking...
Tollhouses then. Tollhouses now.
T T
he Clifton Suspension us that the ship “became a standing neither the form nor the materials he Society has learnt Suspension Bridge. More recently, Peter Floyd, past Chairman of
illustration for the philosophers in are the same, nor is there anything in around the turn of the century,
Bridge tollhouses, with sadness of the Bristol Civic Society, adds:
the raised question of growth, some common with the two buildings, save Craig was integral to the campaign
built in the fifties and declaring it remained the same, others for their connection to the parishioners. death of Craig Begg securing the Council’s rejection of a Craig was at the heart of environmental
seventies, needed that it was not the same vessel”. The But for Hume, this alone is enough to after a long illness. brutally insensitive scheme for the
action in Bristol from the 1970s to the
radical updating. They lacked visible, tangible ship always changes, designate them as the same. 90s. He was a solicitor and partner at
Craig served the Society for redevelopment of Canon’s Marsh. He
and its planks are continually replaced, Lawrence Tucketts. Craig was Hon.
empathy with the bridge; but it nevertheless remains the same,
Returning to Plutarch, he wrote that many years on numerous
also helped to save the cranes near Solicitor to Bristol Civic Society.
it was time to replace them what could be said of a building relates M-shed and promote the ferry services
since if every new plank is essentially campaigns and also as a Once it became known that Bristol
to an entire city: a continuous whole: it in the Floating Harbour.
with modern, more efficient the same as the old one, the intangible City Council was planning a road
wholeness is not actually altered. does not cease to be itself as it changes long-standing member of the No application was too small for his
structures. in growing older, nor become one thing
system that would destroy much of
This is the paradox of conservation Executive Committee. Always interest if he felt it was inappropriate. old Bristol the fight was on. Craig
Workshops and consultations after another with the lapse of time. It is
according to the ancient tradition working for the betterment He organised many a meeting to seldom appeared in the newspapers
stimulated discussion: a pastiche always at one with its former self.
in Japan – Ise Grand Shrine in Mie discuss tactics. Often, these were in but was always there in legal support -
treatment of the original tollhouses
So, what do these philosophical of the City, Craig strove to sometimes very necessary, for example
was rejected. What was required was
a contemporary, functional design, The new tollhouses reflections tell us about our suspension encourage development when the Council tried to obtain an
bridge and our city? Well, the bridge is No application was Act of Parliament to fill in the City
sympathetic to the scale and structure play their part in this befitting the City’s heritage
of Brunel’s adjacent bridge towers. renewal process: modern
Bristol’s world icon and features as a too small for his Docks and when a developer obtained
backdrop every evening on local BBC and topography and tirelessly permission to build a huge hotel in
Conservation architecture specialists, replacing old. interest if he felt it the Avon Gorge or when the s.s. Great
Purcell, designed buildings which and ITV news programmes. It spans opposed proposals which
the gorge physically just as it spans was inappropriate. Britain was brought back to Bristol
would subtly venerate their noble could have irreparably harmed and needed a berth and a charity in its
neighbours. Prefecture, the most sacred Shinto the collective psyche of generations of
shrine in the country, has been Bristolians. It connects opposites: an Bristol’s character. Bristol support. He worked good humouredly
As a volunteer tour-guide at the his gracious house overlooking the and very professionally, at no charge,
bridge and an amateur filmmaker,
routinely demolished and rebuilt every extremely densely-populated suburb would not be the place it is Suspension Bridge where there was
twenty years since the seventh century. with a spacious, leafy, affluent hamlet for years on Bristol Civic Society’s
the Bridgemaster granted me “access Constantly new, yet ancient, Japan’s
today without the efforts of always a warm welcome from Craig behalf and on many other good causes,
in a dramatic way: an awesome fusion
all areas” to film demolition and oldest temple never goes over the age Craig and his contemporaries. and Kay. like the saving of the cranes and the
of engineering and nature.
reconstruction. I am gifting the footage of twenty: the current one was built reintroduction of the city docks ferry.
He was a key player in the Society’s Craig’s experience as a lawyer was
to the bridge’s archive. in 2013, the next will be built in 2033. The soul of our city manifests itself He was a quiet hero in his work to help
major campaigns of the 1970s to the invaluable to the Society’s Executive
Last January, as I filmed the excavator This reflects the Shinto belief in the through its visible form – the balance save Bristol’s historic environment
between permanence and change. The chagrin of insensitive developers. Committee. He provided succinct and
scraping down to the foundations of perpetual renewal of nature and man and without him much that we now
bridge, and Bristol, cannot remain Together with friends in the Society well thought out legal advice. His was treasure and take for granted would
the original Clifton tollhouse beneath as well as a means to pass building always a very balanced contribution to
its 1958 replacement, it set me thinking. techniques from one generation to static and stagnant. The new tollhouses and others, Craig fought to save the have been lost.
play their part in this renewal process: Floating Harbour from being filled committee discussions.
In Roman times, Athens jealously the next. The rebuilding process is
meaningful and transcends bricks-and- modern replacing old, and they pay in by the Council for highway use, Bristol and the Society have been
guarded the ship of Theseus – they It is with great sadness that we
mortar antiquity. due deference in their subtle slanting prevented the 320 feet Post Office beneficiaries of Craig’s relentless and
believed it had brought back the have been informed of the death of
form to the delicate entasis of Brunel’s Tower that would have loomed over effective campaigning over much of his
mythological hero from Crete after Closer to home, the Scottish John Sansom, publisher and friend
bridge towers. King Street and stopped the hotel and life. Those of us who knew and worked
he defeated the half-man, half-bull philosopher David Hume spoke of a of the Bristol Civic Society. A full
Minotaur. As the ancient planks slowly brick church which fell into ruin and Our city will continue to adapt and multi-storey car park development with him remember him with affection appreciation will appear in the next
deteriorated, new wood replaced old. the parish rebuilt it in freestone and evolve, too. Plutarch and Hume threatening to wreck the Avon and we offer our sincerest condolences edition of Better Bristol.
The Roman essayist Plutarch informs to a modern architectural style. Here, would approve. Gorge and the setting of the Clifton to Kay and his family.
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