Where to live in Bristol?

[Sunspots]

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

Speaking of which, I saw something tied to a lamppost the other day about the latest proposal for more 2 or 3 story flats overlooking the park. I think they'd be on (-what you'd probably consider) the far side, maybe where there are currently some industrial units (Hudd's Vale Rd? )...

I'll have a closer look at the notice next time I go past. I doubt these flats will be affordable enough for most local people though...

 

[jusali]

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

Looks aweful that one, that road's always busy. It would drive me bonkers living there, especially in a plywood house BCC eh? Seems that if you bung 'em a tenner you can build anything anywhere at the moment
Then there's those cardboard ones they built at Lawrence hill a stiff breeze and the could be gone shortly...........

 

[gentlegreen]

Does anyone know where all the young Poles (??) I encounter in Tesco are living ?

 

[Sunspots]

Looks aweful that one, that road's always busy. It would drive me bonkers living there, especially in a plywood house

Yeah. Their front doors are about two feet from the busy road; they're hemmed in at the back by that garage/carwash yard, so is there even be enough room for a back garden?

I presume that if they've got a car, they have to leave it across the road in the poorly-lit (park) car park, where the recycling bins (-and probably the doggers... ) are.

 

[Sunspots]

Does anyone know where all the young Poles (??) I encounter in Tesco are living ?

Don't know, but I noticed that one of the two Polish shops up alongside the park seems to have shut down recently (-like so many other shops/pubs there before it... ).

 

[jusali]

Don't know, but I noticed that one of the two Polish shops up alongside the park seems to have shut down recently (-like so many other shops/pubs there before it... ).

That's 'cos theyre all in tesco's

 

[Sunspots]

That's 'cos theyre all in tesco's

True. Not forgetting Aldi/Lidl too.

And I don't think it's just because Tesco (etc) started stocking a big range of Polish food. I'd like to be able to shop in what few small independent shops there are left on Church Road, but I can't afford to. Same as me; rights and wrongs of the big supermarkets aside, I expect the Poles have simply gone where basic food is cheapest.

(-I wonder how long the other Polish shop will last?...)

 

[jusali]

Is the porn factory still operating up that way? I occasionaly see unusually clad ladies in the vicinity and get all turned on by the idea

 

[Sunspots]

Is the porn factory still operating up that way? I occasionaly see unusually clad ladies in the vicinity and get all turned on by the idea

-WTF? First I've heard of this. Is this, er... common knowledge?...

 

[gentlegreen]

-WTF? First I've heard of this. Is this, er... common knowledge?...

I know someone who used to edit video there.

there's also a beansprout factory around there somewhere....

 

[Sunspots]

Is the porn factory still operating up that way? I occasionaly see unusually clad ladies in the vicinity and get all turned on by the idea

there's also a beansprout factory around there somewhere....

First a 'porn factory', now THIS!!!...

 

[gentlegreen]

Could this be them ?

I think they may have gone legit now.

http://www.bristolfilmstudios.com/pages/studios/studio_a.php

 

[Sunspots]

I know someone who used to edit video there.

there's also a beansprout factory around there somewhere....

Where are these places then? This really is all news to me.

-Can't say I've ever noticed any of the 'unusually clad ladies' that jusali mentioned, but surely I'd have at least noticed a constant beansprout-y smell?...

-If you feel discretion is necessary, please PM me!

*Edit: whoops, too slow; you've posted already.*

 

[gentlegreen]

My ex. applied to work at the beansprout factory, but her inability to speak Chinese was a major problem.

 

[gentlegreen]

No - this must be them :-

Pumpkin Film Productions Ltd

Pumpkin Film Productions Ltd create and distribute high-quality videos and DVD's, for the adult market, on a regular basis, featuring some of the United ...
www.[B]pumpkin[/B]films.com/adult/adult_video.html - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

A vertitable hive of activity in such a small block - I must take a detour that way .

 

[Sunspots]

My ex. applied to work at the beansprout factory, but her inability to speak Chinese was a major problem.

So, where's that in St George then?

 

[Sunspots]

A vertitable hive of activity in such a small block

Tbh, I did PM jusali when he mentioned it, saying that I've occasionally seen bright/weird coloured lighting coming out of a top floor window of a building up there. That map would seem to correlate with the same building I'm talking about.

I really had no idea I was living in the shadow of such a ...er... reputable media complex...

 

[electrogirl]

Is the porn factory still operating up that way? I occasionaly see unusually clad ladies in the vicinity and get all turned on by the idea

more info pretty please please

 

[jusali]

Well, it all started when I googled Leonard road (Redfield) which was where are first house was and found out that someone on the street was running a food fetish business where people could romp around naked and rub each other with cakes etc (had a funny name like scat but not ).
Anyways being a sociable chap I got talking with the locals and they said that not much was known about them per se but there was akinda porn studios where GG outlined in his satelite image above.
Years later when my wife was taking little one to Redfield playgroup she got friendly with one of the Mum's who lived at the end of the street where porn factory was and had seen dodgy characters around there.
I often pass that way and keep my eye out and notice the occassional porn star esque type characters and you know imagine things

 

[jusali]

more info pretty please please

Give me the carbooty information now please.........

 

[Geri]

Also saw a sparrow hawk in the park last week having a go at a rook

I thought you said having a go at a rock first! I was about to say, that's probably a waste of energy.

I saw some crows (or they could have been rooks) chasing squirrels in the park yesterday.

In the wintertime they sometimes have owl spotting evenings.

 

[gentlegreen]

I see now that I have inadvertently lassoed Bethel United Church in my picture.

The Apostolic Church is a Pentecostal Christian denomination which can trace its origins back to the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival.

<....>

The theological beliefs of the Apostolic Church are summarised in its statement of faith, known as the Tenets.

2. The utter depravity of human nature, the necessity for repentance and regeneration, and the eternal doom of the finally impenitent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Church

I wonder what they tell the children about their neighbours !

 

[Sunspots]

I see now that I have inadvertently lassoed Bethel United Church in my picture.

I wonder what they tell the children about their neighbours !

Yes, their close proximity to each other had crossed my mind too.

 

[Jografer]

Could this be them ?

I think they may have gone legit now.

http://www.bristolfilmstudios.com/pages/studios/studio_a.php

Well, it all started when I googled Leonard road (Redfield) which was where are first house was and found out that someone on the street was running a food fetish business where people could romp around naked and rub each other with cakes etc (had a funny name like scat but not ).

...that's not Leonard Road...

 

[gentlegreen]

...that's not Leonard Road...

Keep up there.

 

[Sunspots]

This thread's been very informative; so far, I've learnt:

-Eastville Park is up for a facelift...
-there's an old icehouse and a spooky tunnel down along by The Frome...
-big eejit once met someone who went missing in Redcliffe caves...
-there was/is a 'Lord Cocks Of Hartcliffe'...
-hermitical is probably a bit of a 'twitcher'...
-electrogirl once 'loved' in St George...
-'the Poles are all in Tesco'...
-there was/is a house dedicated to 'food play' fetish parties in St George...
-there are porn and beanshoot factories in my neighbourhood...
-they're not the same factories though...
-no-one seems to know where the decent car boot sales are these days.

Who needs The Evening Post, eh?