Bristol south of the river - tourist guide

[Geri]

large parts of N Bristol now seem to have been 'ethnically cleansed' of actual Bristolians.

It's due to the number of companies basing themselves in the area - Rolls Royce, British Aerospace, the MoD, etc. who bring staff into the area with them.

I heard a very interesting statistic the other day, about the percentage of people in N Bristol who have degrees compared with those in S Bristol. I can't remember the exact percentages but the difference was huge.

 

[Callie]

is that something to do with the univeristy?

 

[Geri]

There's no University in North Bristol! Well, not a proper one anyway

 

[softybabe]

Bristol...hmmm... ddraig and I visited over the weekend...IMO nothing to write home about. We were not too impressed.

 

[fizzerbird]

oi missy softybabe, if you'd taken the time to view the sights instead of bumping uglies, you may have a different opinion!

Should have come up to AC on Saturday for the picnic.

 

[xenon]

I've never been inside The Apple which is probably north of the river strictly speaking, but much handier access from south of the river.

A great pub in S Bristol is the Coronation on Dean Lane, Southville, owned by the excellent Hopback Brewery:

http://www.hopback.co.uk/pub_details/the_coronation.php

Bedminster is actually a very interesting place to wonder around - very Bristolian. Which may sound an odd thing to say about Bristol, but large parts of N Bristol now seem to have been 'ethnically cleansed' of actual Bristolians.

Ah my local.

 

[fizzerbird]

I'm proper Bristolian me!

 

[softybabe]

oi missy softybabe, if you'd taken the time to view the sights instead of bumping uglies, you may have a different opinion!

Should have come up to AC on Saturday for the picnic.

we did take time out from 'bumping'! We have a stroll and a snooze in the park, we did think about gatecrashing the picnic but thought we might as well take more of the 'sights' in instead. But what sights nothing! even the shops werent open till 11am on Sunday

You need a lot more than an invite to picnic to convince us to come back to Bristol fizzerbird person

 

[ddraig]

now now ladies!!
sb u didn't tell em not to call me ugly

fizzer, we only went around a little obvious bit of the city and i know there's a lot more too it. shit happens further out obviously

sb stop winding up the neighbours

 

[softybabe]

sb stop winding up the neighbours

or wot?! Stalker! We did manage to find a lovely pub with really nice ceiling ...

 

[Geri]

You need a lot more than an invite to picnic to convince us to come back to Bristol fizzerbird person

Oh well

 

[fizzerbird]

now now ladies!!
sb u didn't tell em not to call me ugly
fizzer, we only went around a little obvious bit of the city and i know there's a lot more too it. shit happens further out obviously

sb stop winding up the neighbours

LMAO...


Oh and I didn't mean you were ugly...either of you! It's an expression describing the friction between male and female genitalia

 

[big eejit]

Anyone going along to the Southbank Arts trail thingy that starts this weekend? I was thinking of it but as it's pissing down....

http://www.sbaweb.co.uk/arts_trail_2007_details

 

[fizzerbird]

I'm drowning!

From the amount of work I have to do NOT the rain. I am brain dead!!!

Agggggggggh!

 

[Geri]

'Southbank'

 

[xenon]

Anyone going along to the Southbank Arts trail thingy that starts this weekend? I was thinking of it but as it's pissing down....

http://www.sbaweb.co.uk/arts_trail_2007_details

Yep pretty much how I'm feeling about it. Would probably just end up in the pub.

 

[xenon]

"...Artists homes, churches, community centres and public houses."

Too late now anyway.

Although I see there's stuff on all week.

 

[JTG]

I heard a very interesting statistic the other day, about the percentage of people in N Bristol who have degrees compared with those in S Bristol. I can't remember the exact percentages but the difference was huge.

Bigger gene pool

 

[J77]

Bigger gene pool

Either that, or the fact that the whole area around Cheltenham Road and up through Gloucester Road, all the way to UWE, is full of students or graduates from the unis...

I reckon South Bristol has a higher percentage of Art students

 

[Jografer]

I heard a very interesting statistic the other day, about the percentage of people in N Bristol who have degrees compared with those in S Bristol. I can't remember the exact percentages but the difference was huge.

Bristol West Constituency has the highest % of people with degrees & postgrad qualifications anywhere in the UK... but as they've also got a LibDem MP just goes to show that qualifications & intelligence are 2 different things...

 

[fizzerbird]

Either that, or the fact that the whole area around Cheltenham Road and up through Gloucester Road, all the way to UWE, is full of students or graduates from the unis...

I reckon South Bristol has a higher percentage of Art students

Oh they're artists alright...

 

[JTG]

Bristol West Constituency has the highest % of people with degrees & postgrad qualifications anywhere in the UK... but as they've also got a LibDem MP just goes to show that qualifications & intelligence are 2 different things...

Whereas the Labour voting people of the rest of the city are paragons of canny clued-upness of course

 

[xenon]

Oh they're artists alright...

It's performance.

 

[ICB]

Either that, or the fact that the whole area around Cheltenham Road and up through Gloucester Road, all the way to UWE, is full of students or graduates from the unis...

And a very large population of Carribean, Indian and Pakistani origin as well as a fair few Irish and recently eastern Europeans.

Fuck Clifton and Redland, the Gloucester Rd is the heart and soul of Bristol IMO.

Bristol West Constituency has the highest % of people with degrees & postgrad qualifications anywhere in the UK... but as they've also got a LibDem MP just goes to show that qualifications & intelligence are 2 different things...

Used to be Val Davey for Labour, she was shit and somehow leapfrogged the libdem candidate to beat William Waldergrave in 97.

About time they had a libdem in there frankly.

 

[J77]

And a very large population of Carribean, Indian and Pakistani origin as well as a fair few Irish and recently eastern Europeans.

Fuck Clifton and Redland, the Gloucester Rd is the heart and soul of Bristol IMO.

Really?

Unless times have greatly changed, I'd say the very large Carribean population was still confined from Stokes Croft down to Ashley Road, and the Indian and Pakistani population to East Bristol. Certainly not Gloucester Road.

And, North Street's the heart and soul

 

[ICB]

Really?

Unless times have greatly changed, I'd say the very large Carribean population was still confined from Stokes Croft down to Ashley Road, and the Indian and Pakistani population to East Bristol. Certainly not Gloucester Road.

And, North Street's the heart and soul

North St. BS1 or BS3? The central one is tiny and dominated by 5102 which is yuppie central. North St bedmi is boring as feck, nowhere near as multicultural and none of the variety in shops, restuarants and cafe culture you get on the Glocker moi luvver.

Bishopston is twinned with KV Kuppam S India and has the highest density of Indian restaurants and takeaways in the city.

Was including everything from Jimmy B's up as Cheltenham Rd, not stricly correct I know but I've always thought of it like that, N St + the Croft is pretty short and Cheltenham Rd borders quite a stretch of Montpelier which has a very mixed popluation as you'll know.

Our kids went to state primaries in Bishopston and Horfield which gave us a fairly representative idea of how mixed the local population is. It's a great area.

 

[bristol_citizen]

Really?

Unless times have greatly changed, I'd say the very large Carribean population was still confined from Stokes Croft down to Ashley Road, and the Indian and Pakistani population to East Bristol. Certainly not Gloucester Road.

The largest part of the Caribbean population is in East Bristol too, especially since the council and housing associations adopted an ethnic cleansing policy to not to allocate housing to caribbeans in St Pauls