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« Reply #30 on: December 10, 2020, 22:13:33 » |
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In the week when it was reported that four people have been charged with criminal damage for their part in removing a statue in central Bristol, it looks like an earlier attempt to rewrite history may be rectified. Residents of Steep Street, renamed 'Colston Street' in Victorian times when the 'cult of Colston' was at its height, have asked the city council if the original name can be restored. Meanwhile, the possibility of reverting 'Colston Avenue' to its old name 'St Augustine's Back' is also being considered... |
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« Reply #31 on: December 11, 2020, 08:44:26 » |
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In the week when it was reported that four people have been charged with criminal damage for their part in removing a statue in central Bristol, it looks like an earlier attempt to rewrite history may be rectified. Residents of Steep Street, renamed 'Colston Street' in Victorian times when the 'cult of Colston' was at its height, have asked the city council if the original name can be restored. Meanwhile, the possibility of reverting 'Colston Avenue' to its old name 'St Augustine's Back' is also being considered... If Colston Street reverts back to Steep Street, then St Michaels Hill, which it effectively leads to, should be renamed Very Steep Hill, just to emphasise how much steeper it is! |
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« Reply #32 on: December 11, 2020, 08:48:21 » |
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That reminds me of a rather niche gag that used to circulate in the IT department of a Bristol firm I once worked for:
'Do you know the LAN's down?'
'No, but I've heard St Michael's ill'
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« Reply #33 on: December 11, 2020, 17:00:01 » |
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it looks like an earlier attempt to rewrite history may be rectified. Residents of Steep Street, renamed 'Colston Street' in Victorian times when the 'cult of Colston' was at its height, have asked the city council if the original name can be restored. Steep Street was a steep street  Gotta agree with Froome though, compared to St Michael's Hill or Trenchard St (not to mention Nine Tree Hill, Vale St or various others in Bristol) it's not really that steep at all. |
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« Reply #34 on: December 11, 2020, 17:09:25 » |
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Gotta agree with Froome though, compared to St Michael's Hill or Trenchard St (not to mention Nine Tree Hill, Vale St or various others in Bristol) it's not really that steep at all.
Things change over the years. We have a "New Road" that's really not that new .... |
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« Reply #35 on: December 12, 2020, 08:44:27 » |
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Gotta agree with Froome though, compared to St Michael's Hill or Trenchard St (not to mention Nine Tree Hill, Vale St or various others in Bristol) it's not really that steep at all.
Things change over the years. We have a "New Road" that's really not that new .... I would recommend a visit to the New Inn in Gloucester. |
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« Reply #36 on: December 15, 2020, 13:20:08 » |
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Things change over the years. We have a "New Road" that's really not that new ....
There's more than a few Station Roads without a station. |
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« Reply #37 on: December 15, 2020, 13:30:15 » |
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Things change over the years. We have a "New Road" that's really not that new ....
There's more than a few Station Roads without a station. We live on a Spa Road that doesn't have a Spa any more, though we do have a Spar. |
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« Reply #38 on: December 15, 2020, 13:33:04 » |
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Things change over the years. We have a "New Road" that's really not that new ....
There's more than a few Station Roads without a station. There will be cases of Station Roads that no longer lead to the actual station, for example, Station Road in Henbury will no longer lead to the new Metrowest station when it opens. That should confuse a few hopeful passengers. |
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« Reply #39 on: December 15, 2020, 15:51:24 » |
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There's more than a few Station Roads without a station.
When the old Fishpond Station site was redeveloped into a supermarket, the road they built to link the car park to New Station Road was named 'New Station Way'. It would have been interesting, or possibly nauseating, to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting where they made that decision, but perhaps 'Car Park Road' was too obvious for them... Let's hope Station Road in Ashley Down will soon make one less 'Station Road without a station'! |
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« Reply #40 on: December 15, 2020, 18:38:56 » |
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Continuing with the thread drift...
..and almost every Thames-side village has a "Ferry Lane" and a "Mill Lane" but very few have the latter (at least in working form) and hardly any have the former.
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« Reply #41 on: December 15, 2020, 20:55:18 » |
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Things change over the years. We have a "New Road" that's really not that new ....
There's more than a few Station Roads without a station. There will be cases of Station Roads that no longer lead to the actual station, for example, Station Road in Henbury will no longer lead to the new Metrowest station when it opens. That should confuse a few hopeful passengers. Time for a New Station Road perhaps... |
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« Reply #42 on: December 16, 2020, 14:22:56 » |
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There will be cases of Station Roads that no longer lead to the actual station, for example, Station Road in Henbury will no longer lead to the new Metrowest station when it opens. That should confuse a few hopeful passengers.
Time for a New Station Road perhaps... ... just off Catbrain Hill. |
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