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Old May 12th 2009, 3:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Tr1boy
Visited, well I lived in inner city Bristol for a few years, does that count? Totterdown, to be precise. Let me know if I'm qualified to comment any further champ.

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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Coming from Bristol I know that as well as the inner city areas, there are the not so inner city areas like Easton and Barton Hill and the sprawling, deprived, high unemployment, drug-ridden council estates like Hartcliffe, Southmead, Knowle, Lawrence Weston.


Totterdown eh? Small world. Me too...from 1984 to 2004.

You two had it good!!

I spent 20yrs in Bedminster & 20yrs in Easton/Eastville before moving here ....

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Old May 12th 2009, 4:18 pm
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"I used to live in cardboard box ont' moor, every morning I got up twenty minutes before I went to bed and licked road clean for breakfast...." etc


This is one sorry excuse for a thread based on assumptions and supposition and fueled by misplaced frustration!
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Old May 12th 2009, 5:40 pm
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Originally Posted by bananahammock
I spent 20yrs in Bedminster & 20yrs in Easton/Eastville before moving here ....
My brother and sis-in-law used to live in Bedminster! They've graduated to the heady heights of Long Ashton now though.
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Originally Posted by christmasoompa
My brother and sis-in-law used to live in Bedminster! They've graduated to the heady heights of Long Ashton now though.
is this thread turning into a Bristol reunion?
I lived in Redland/Cotham for a total of five years in the 90s
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Originally Posted by elfman
is this thread turning into a Bristol reunion?
I lived in Redland/Cotham for a total of five years in the 90s
I used to work in BS14. Does that count?
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Old May 12th 2009, 6:05 pm
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Originally Posted by CaptainHook
I used to work in BS14. Does that count?
Depends from where you were commuting.
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Depends from where you were commuting.
Gloucester.
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Not a lot of land, no, but quite a bit of the population.
I'm not arguing that. I'm saying that most of the UK is very beautiful and is very accessible to anybody living here.
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Originally Posted by CaptainHook
Gloucester.
No.
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
No.
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Old May 12th 2009, 8:27 pm
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Originally Posted by christmasoompa
My brother and sis-in-law used to live in Bedminster! They've graduated to the heady heights of Long Ashton now though.
Bemmy down actually so I was semi-posh ....

Originally Posted by elfman
is this thread turning into a Bristol reunion?
I lived in Redland/Cotham for a total of five years in the 90s
Proper posh ... coming from Bedsinister, going to the downs was a day out!!

Originally Posted by CaptainHook
I used to work in BS14. Does that count?
No, that's probably Stockwood?

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Old May 12th 2009, 8:33 pm
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Originally Posted by bananahammock
Proper posh ... coming from Bedsinister, going to the downs was a day out!!

From Brislington too.
In the 70s I used to get off the bus at the downs to get home on Redland Road. Huge flat for £10.50 a week.
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Old May 12th 2009, 8:34 pm
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Originally Posted by bananahammock
going to the downs was a day out!!
It's a night out for some gentlemen in Bristol.
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Old May 12th 2009, 8:40 pm
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Originally Posted by Tangram
It's a night out for some gentlemen in Bristol.
To seek the services of the 'Ladies of horizontal refreshment?' as my OH calls them
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Originally Posted by bananahammock
To seek the services of the 'Ladies of horizontal refreshment?' as my OH calls them
Erm no, apparently no ladies involved.
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