Where to live in Bristol?

[keybored]

What - Hartcliffe? Is it becoming gentrified?

Urban Splash are "working on it". Think it'll be a while before you see a Starbucks on Symes though

 

[hermitical]

No I haven't - do you have a link?

http://tinyurl.com/45q832

 

[Geri]

A cafe would be cool! And I'd really like it if they could tun the swimming pool into a pool again, instead of a garden, but I doubt that will ever happen. And a new boathouse and boats, definitely.

 

[Sunspots]

I just had a look at those pdfs.

The proposals look ...er... surprisingly good!

Fingers crossed...

 

[hermitical]

I'd hate to see boats disrupt the wildfowl/wildlife of the lake though

 

[Crispy]

Sounds like they still need to organise the money, but that all sounds good!

Anyone else been in the Ice House? It's very - ooh, I just found out it's grade II listed.

There's a tunnel through the cliffs on the other side of the river, too.

 

[Sunspots]

I'd hate to see boats disrupt the wildfowl/wildlife of the lake though

Hmmm, fair point. Probably depends on whether the lake and boats are supervised. (-Mandatory nowadays, I'd guess, what with Health & Safety, etc...) Blanket CCTV, or hire a bastard parkie (-like in Viz... ); IT'S THE ONLY WAY.

The proposals do seem to place emphasis on wildlife and ...er... nature stuff though, so I'd say the signs are at least promising. (-Or maybe I've just drunk the greenwash... )

If you live in the area, maybe you should go along to a public meeting (-if there is one) and 'consult' on the matter?

 

[Sunspots]

Wow, is that the entrance to the Ice House, or to the tunnel through the cliffs?

Either way, I've probably walked past it loads of times without realising what it is!

(-Any idea where the tunnel goes to?)

I'll definitely have a better look at it next time I'm there.

 

[Crispy]

That's the entrance to the ice house. You probably haven't walked past it, because you have to go back on yourself after crossing the river, just past the weir. (it's on the left bank, if you're facing upstream) The tunnel through the rocks is on the right hand side a bit further up, iirc. It's been a while It has a low ceiling and a blocked up passage on one side. There might even have been some narrow guage rails, but I could be imagining it.

Ah, I see from http://www.fromewalkway.org.uk/historygeology.html, that the local stone is the common grey sandstone you see round bristol, and it was quarried in the area. I suspec that's what the tunnels to do with.

 

[Sunspots]

That's the entrance to the ice house. You probably haven't walked past it, because you have to go back on yourself after crossing the river, just past the weir. (it's on the left bank, if you're facing upstream) The tunnel through the rocks is on the right hand side a bit further up, iirc. It's been a while

Thanks, I think I know where you mean with both of those.

It has a low ceiling and a blocked up passage on one side. There might even have been some narrow guage rails, but I could be imagining it.

So, by the sounds of it, it doesn't go anywhere as such; there isn't another end of it that emerges somewhere else?

Sounds intriguing none the less though. That's one of the things I love about Bristol; so much history, including so many hidden caves and tunnels.

 

[Crispy]

the tunnel goes through an outcrop, so it's quite short - maybe 6 meters? But it's the bit that forks off into the bowels of the rock that intrigues me

 

[Sunspots]

the tunnel goes through an outcrop, so it's quite short - maybe 6 meters? But it's the bit that forks off into the bowels of the rock that intrigues me

Right, I might investigate.

If I appear to have stopped posting in the next few days though, you know where to look...

 

[Sunspots]

-Aaaaaaactually, even at this early stage, my plan has all the potential to be an episode of Casualty, doesn't it!...

Maybe I'll try and find out a bit more about it before I try wandering off into a pitch dark tunnel of unknown dimensions...

 

[Sunspots]

Oh, and lillia, apologies for the massive derail!

-As I recall, you were asking about where to live in Bristol, not about what might be in some old tunnel down by a river...

 

[big eejit]

I was talking to someone who regularly walked underground from near the Ostrich to Temple Meads. One day he never came out....

 

[Sunspots]

I was talking to someone who regularly walked underground from near the Ostrich to Temple Meads. One day he never came out....

Those caves are usually locked up...

 

[big eejit]

Those caves are usually locked up...

Probably explains a lot.

 

[JTG]

I was talking to someone who regularly walked underground from near the Ostrich to Temple Meads. One day he never came out....

so you were talking to him after this happened?

were you visiting him in the Underground Kingdom?

 

[Geri]

I'd hate to see boats disrupt the wildfowl/wildlife of the lake though

They managed to co-exist peacefully for many years previously. I used to know the bloke who worked on them, he was a friend of my ex-husband. Huge bald bloke, his dad was Lord Cocks of Hartcliffe.

 

[lillia]

Oh, and lillia, apologies for the massive derail!

-As I recall, you were asking about where to live in Bristol, not about what might be in some old tunnel down by a river...

I was quite excited when I scrolled through this thread this morning, and glanced at those pics. I thought someone had found me a cave to live in. Just trying to work out the scale to see if the sofa would fit through the door...

All derails welcome... far more interesting than discussing housing...

 

[hermitical]

fair enough...
the lake is one of the draws for me...so peaceful. At the moment there are 2 or 3 families of coots, at least 5 families of ducks. Just saw the first group of goslings there this morning and one of the pairs of swans are nesting on an island. There's also the local heron often seen perching on a bank, the odd cormorant, the gulls and terns and just down the river I saw a kingfisher the other week. Also saw a sparrow hawk in the park last week having a go at a rook

 

[jusali]

St George is cool for the quiet life but there's not that much retail entertainment apart from a few charidee shops in nearby Redfield.
I love the park though

 

[gentlegreen]

Yep, Weatherspoons and a few rough pubs ....

 

[Sunspots]

St George is quiet, but boring; nothing doing, except for the great park.

A couple of decent cafes have opened up in the last year though.

 

[electrogirl]

i think st george is getting better though, i loved there for a short while and there was trendy foos shops opening. old market is getting less seedy too.

 

[gentlegreen]

Loads of new flats going up in Redfield - not sure if they're for rent or sale.

 

[jusali]

Would that be "Luxury" flats?

 

[gentlegreen]

Would that be "Luxury" flats?

I doubt it - they're made of plywood, with flat rooves and packed in tight.

This is a more recent series of developments than "On The Park" ...

 

[gentlegreen]

Here's a scary one - right on a busy junction - where the post office was :-

£650 p.c.m. £650 CHALKS ROAD, BRISTOL Brand new two bedroom terraced house, unfurnished. suit professional couple. No pets, DSS, smokers or students.

 

[Sunspots]

i think st george is getting better though, i loved there for a short while

-OMG, I didn't realise you posted on Urban!...

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Yep, hints of slightly more metropolitan pursuits are slowly encroaching upon sedate St George.

I reckon The Black Horse and The George & Dragon aren't going to turn into Pret A Manger for at least another 50 years yet though. ...-Which is probably a good thing. (-After all, I wouldn't want the charity shops disappearing! )