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mentalist Apr 3rd 2013 3:24 am
My Favourite English Landmark
 
If you have never walked across it or strolled the lovely lawns above it, then put this on your bucket list:thumbsup:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ge-status.html

Trixie_b Apr 3rd 2013 3:41 am
Re: My Favourite English Landmark
 
I've walked across it. Sweating bricks........ It's high!

nonthaburi Apr 3rd 2013 4:19 am
Re: My Favourite English Landmark
 
nice bridge but a lot of Bristol is a dump .

Never want to go back there .

nonthaburi Apr 3rd 2013 4:26 am
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Originally Posted by nonthaburi (Post 10637510)
nice bridge but a lot of Bristol is a dump .

Never want to go back there .
http://www.people.co.uk/news/uk-worl...name_page.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/ma...grationpolicy1

http://www.people.co.uk/news/uk-worl...2039-22902059/

mentalist Apr 3rd 2013 4:54 am
Re: My Favourite English Landmark
 
Every big city has its gettos and no-go areas, two of the articles incidentally being 8 years old. Stapleton Road is just one single street, nowhere near as bad as Manningham Lane in Bradford for example, where its often too dangerous for prostitutes to walk.

nonthaburi Apr 3rd 2013 5:07 am
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Having stayed there when I was working in Bristol , and been left for dead when I was turned over there . Believe me , it's no picnic .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42zVE...789D5D33F3A7D8

Meow Apr 3rd 2013 8:14 am
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Is it the suspension bridge? I refuse to look at Daily Mail links.

mentalist Apr 3rd 2013 8:21 am
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Originally Posted by Meow (Post 10637688)
Is it the suspension bridge? I refuse to look at Daily Mail links.
Here are some pictures of College Green and the cathedral. Such an ugly city!
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=col...w=1366&bih=571

mentalist Apr 3rd 2013 8:24 am
Re: My Favourite English Landmark
 
Originally Posted by nonthaburi (Post 10637538)
Having stayed there when I was working in Bristol , and been left for dead when I was turned over there . Believe me , it's no picnic .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42zVE...789D5D33F3A7D8
Sorry for your experience but I was raised from aged 7 in Bristol and never encountered any crime or violence whatsoever, unlike my times in Manchester, Bradford, Stoke and Leicester. Obviously times have changed but, if I ever returned to the UK, it would be one of my preferred destinations...maybe not the districts of Easton or St.Pauls however

Kix Apr 3rd 2013 8:54 am
Re: My Favourite English Landmark
 
Originally Posted by mentalist (Post 10637528)
Every big city has its gettos and no-go areas, two of the articles incidentally being 8 years old. Stapleton Road is just one single street, nowhere near as bad as Manningham Lane in Bradford for example, where its often too dangerous for prostitutes to walk.
Ah Manningham Lane, immortalised in Rita, Sue and Bob too, around the 1.30 mark by the crazy bloke on the balcony.

Classic film.

nonthaburi Apr 3rd 2013 8:57 am
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Originally Posted by mentalist (Post 10637697)
Sorry for your experience but I was raised from aged 7 in Bristol and never encountered any crime or violence whatsoever, unlike my times in Manchester, Bradford, Stoke and Leicester. Obviously times have changed but, if I ever returned to the UK, it would be one of my preferred destinations...maybe not the districts of Easton or St.Pauls however
you lived in Clifton ?

nonthaburi Apr 3rd 2013 9:05 am
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Originally Posted by mentalist (Post 10637696)
Here are some pictures of College Green and the cathedral. Such an ugly city!
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=col...w=1366&bih=571
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nonthaburi Apr 3rd 2013 9:09 am
Re: My Favourite English Landmark
 
Originally Posted by mentalist (Post 10637697)
Sorry for your experience but I was raised from aged 7 in Bristol and never encountered any crime or violence whatsoever, unlike my times in Manchester, Bradford, Stoke and Leicester. Obviously times have changed but, if I ever returned to the UK, it would be one of my preferred destinations...maybe not the districts of Easton or St.Pauls however
it was a warzone down there .

mentalist Apr 3rd 2013 10:19 am
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Originally Posted by nonthaburi (Post 10637725)
you lived in Clifton ?
Horfield, mate. As a teenager I used to walk down Stapleton Road after watching the Rovers playing at Eastville Stadium before it was demolished and replaced by a Tesco Superstore.

mentalist Apr 3rd 2013 10:21 am
Re: My Favourite English Landmark
 
Originally Posted by nonthaburi (Post 10637737)
it was a warzone down there .
A damned sight safer than parts of Bangkok I suspect. You really are obsessed with one little street. Get over it.


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