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It was once an overgrown and neglected plot of land – now the space at Arnos Vale Cemetery has been transformed into a haven for both people and wildlife. The community garden, which is next to the entrance in Cemetery Road, was officially opened by Lord Mayor of Bristol, Cllr Jos Clarke, on July 11. Attending were Year 3 children from the local Hillcrest Primary School, representatives from the organisations which sponsored the garden, as well as staff, volunteers and trustees from Arnos Vale Cemetery.
following a period of ill health. Hundreds of tributes were paid in response to the sad news, with members of the local community taking to social media to share fond memories of Father Jack, or Mr House, as he was known to his former students.
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Father Jack remembered A “complete one-off” and “legendary figure” have been just some of the many endearments used to describe Father Jack House, who sadly passed aged 83. A funeral was held for the much-loved and well-known vicar and teacher on July 18 at Holy Nativity in Knowle, the church of which Father Jack had been a “faithful friend”. He passed away on June 21,
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‘We must strike a balance It is a topic that divides opinion – grass verges being allowed to grow wild. Some say they are essential for wildlife and biodiversity, while others say they are unsightly and look a mess. Bristol City Council came under fire last month when it mowed a stretch of wild grassland along St Luke’s Road in Totterdown. But the local authority defended its actions, saying that it must “strike a balance” between allowing grass verges to grow for ecological purposes and the public’s reaction to uncut green spaces. The council says that it also needs to consider “associated health and safety issues” of wild verges. Just days before the area was mowed, Totterdown Residents Environmental and Social Action group (TRESA) tweeted an image of the wildflowers, suggesting that
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with allowing grass verges to grow wild’ - council City Council said: “We’re fully behind the campaign to introduce wildflower areas that encourage urban pollinators and have cultivated a number of wildflower meadows across the city, sown specifically for colour and pollinators. One such area exists very near to the site being discussed. We also have a number of areas sown and cultivated for a specific biodiversity. In these designated areas we cut around the wildflower spaces. “We also have large swathes of grassy areas to manage and must strike a balance between allowing
Your views Andrew Brown – Wildflowers add visual variety to our environment, as well as making for a more a more diverse ecosystem. Sight lines could have been maintained at this junction without giving the verge a short, back and sides. Lorraine Fairbanks – Definitely love the wildflowers. They’re beautiful to look at. Lovely for wellbeing – and great for wildlife! June Goulding – Why did it need to be total removal? A waved central block of wild flowers would have given the wildlife a place to hide and continue their life cycles, but could have satisfied those who wanted it more controlled. Amanda Brett – Frankly, lose wildlife/insects, lose humans. Definitely should have remained and totally more planting of wild flowers and trees required. Get the seed bombs out. Naomi Rogalska – Wildflowers are always a joy in my book. Sarah Godfrey – I preferred the wildflowers, so did my children.
The section of wild grassland in St Luke’s Road, which the council did not mow grass to grow long for ecological reasons, the associated health and safety issues this presents and public reaction to uncut spaces. “The St Luke’s Road area was not planted, it’s a steep grass verge that needs maintaining, and we’re not aware of any local involvement with this particular site but we have got great support from locals for another area in the nearby Victoria Park.” Kim Corp – I’m not really sure why it had to be one or the other? Why couldn’t the lawn at the front be cut but the flowerbed be left? Andrew Varney – This seems like a mistake. Surely, it would have been better to wait until the flowers had gone over before cutting them back? Sarah Jade – It’s not about human preference, it’s about protecting wildlife. The more flowers present, the better chance bees have of pollinating safely. Janet Marks – As a frequent visitor to south Bristol I love the wildflower verges. Beverley Chapman – Love seeing the wildflowers – shame they cut them down. Vic Waugh – They didn’t look a mess, they were the way nature intended and enabled wildlife to thrive, it’s a no brainer. The world will look a lot messier when everyone is struggling to survive because there are no bees left. Kelly Meek – It looked a mess.
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n NEWS Good Gardens’ organiser hands over reins after five successful years It has been another successful year for the BS4 Good Garden awards, with more participants than ever entering the competition. The friendly local event, which is in its fifth year, has seen 6,000 awards handed out since the start of the competition, with many people winning several times. It is the last year that the ADVERTISEMENT
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event will be organised by local resident (and South Bristol Voice’s sales director) Ruth Drury, who is handing over the reins to a new team, led by Laura Chamberlain of Brislington. Ruth said: “The competition has been run for five years now by me and some other fabulous volunteers. “It only runs because of the kind donations from residents and sponsorship from businesses who have sponsored. “Next year will need even more funds due to the massive increase in garden efforts around BS4. “A huge thanks to you all for making our streets look even more beautiful and helping the local wildlife.”
The winning garden in Woodridge Road
The competition encourages local residents to nominate impressive front gardens across BS4, which are then judged, with the winners of each street entered into a prize draw to win a meal for two at The Knowle. This year’s winner of the
meal for two was a garden in Woodridge Road. Anyone interested in being part of the event can get in touch via the Facebook group, BS4 Good Gardens. Nominations will open for 2020 awards in February.
Join us for our community fun day Windmill Hill Community Centre is opening its doors to the public in September for a community fun day. Residents will be able to enjoy a whole host of activities on September 21, while the centre, in Vivian Street, showcases what it has to offer the local community. There will be music by local bands, taster sessions hosted by organisations that use the centre, and food and refreshments from Stuffed, the Victoria Park food van. The Windmill Hill Community Association, the charity which owns the long-
standing centre, will also be engaging with residents about how the facility can best accommodate the local community. The association purchased the centre 19 years ago, after renting the former church hall at a minimal rate. It is now used for classes, as well as family celebrations and birthday parties. A membership scheme is also available, where members can take advantage of the centre’s bar, enjoy monthly quiz and music nights, and reduced venue hire. The community fun day is
Windmill Hill Community Centre in Vivian Street from 2pm onwards. For more information about the centre, visit: www.whca.org.uk.
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Why borrowing and sharing toys is so important A south Bristol charity is offering families with young children a more sustainable and cheaper alternative to buying toys. The South Bristol Toy Library, at the United Reform Church in Stanley Street South, offers a space for children to play with more than 500 toys, from puzzles to slides, and has been serving the local community for three years. It promotes the importance of play, the sharing and reusing of toys, and aims to support the development of children from all backgrounds. The group meets every other Saturday and is run solely by volunteers. There are currently over 100 members signed up to use the library. Membership is £15 per family – families on benefits pay a reduced rate – which entitles parents and carers to hire up to four toys a time for up to four weeks at a minimal fee. Families can also drop-in for ‘stay and play’ at £1 per session. In addition, the library hires out soft play equipment for children’s birthday parties. A recent £1k grant from Greggs’ local community projects fund has afforded the library to refresh its stock, with toys supplied by Toyville in North Street. Stacy Yelland, the chair of the trustees, said: “It’s so important
Families and volunteers at the South Bristol Toy Library that children can have access to toys, particularly those families who don’t have lots of money, and we have a broad range here at the library – from the more sensory toys for young children to the more science and tech based toys for older children.” Bev Forsythe-Cheasley, a volunteer at the library, said: “What I love about the toy library is the environmental side of it and how it encourages parents to not buy new as often. Kids get bored of toys quite quickly, so it’s good to borrow – and we have lots of good quality toys here to share.” “Volunteering here is also great because I can bring my two kids along.” Alison Hicks, who lives in Totterdown and volunteers at the library, said: “I started
volunteering at the library after moving to Bristol – it’s been really fun and a great way to get to know local parents.” Andrew Valentine, whose two-year-old daughter uses the library, said: “It’s nice because there’s such a broad range of toys, including more educational stuff, and it is a really good
resource if you can’t afford the more expensive toys. “A lot of thought and effort has gone into this place. There’s also drinks and snacks too which is a good incentive for the adults.” Mum Annie Berry launched the library in 2016 from her home in Southville, after using a toy library on a family trip to New Zealand. It was set up as a charity and is now supported by Windmill Hill City Farm as part of the farm’s community initiative. For more information about the South Bristol Toy Library, visit southbristoltoylibrary. co.uk or email: hello@ southbristoltoylibrary.co.uk. Families can sign up for memberships at one of the library’s sessions. The next sessions are held on August 10 and 24, and September 7 and 21.
Free family picnic at Windmill Hill Families are being invited to join children’s charity Travelling Light Theatre and 2018 Bake Off star Terry Hartill for a free family picnic at Windmill Hill City Farm. The ‘Yes Let’s Big Picnic’ will take place on August 18, 123pm – families can either pack a picnic, or buy food form the award winning Farm Café. Children can play theatre games with Travelling Light, listen to picnic themed stories, and take part in fun outdoor games. You can also run your own picnic as part of the ‘Yes Let’s Picnic Week’ (August 12-18).
To take part all you need to do is prepare your favourite sandwiches and cakes, choose a location and invite family and friends to join in. Picnic ideas can be downloaded from the Travelling Light website at travellinglighttheatre.org.uk/ support-us/campaigns/yes-letsappeal/. The Yes Let’s Appeal aims to raise £50,000 to invest in creative childhoods in Barton Hill Bristol and beyond. So far, the Appeal has raised over £28,000 in donations from the public, local businesses and trusts and foundations.
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History project takes a trip down memory lane The history of three local streets was on display when residents gathered for the latest instalment of the Totterdown ‘Road’ project. With the help of residents, Hillcrest Primary and the Knowle and Totterdown History Society, the streets of Firfield, Frederick and Parliament (just off the Wells Road) were converted into a temporary open-air museum. The Three Streets Project explored the history of this interconnected road going back in time to its origins in the 1860s and from there, up to the present day. Photographs and texts were displayed on individual houses and information boards were located at various points down its rather steep incline. The Hillcrest students designed shop signs and blue plaques made from paper plates and they also created ‘wanted posters’ describing all the criminals and scallywags arrested
by Sgt Windmill in the 1800s (who were all thrown into Firfield nick!). John O’Connor, one of the organisers said: “The aim was to bring to life the past history of one slice of our neighbourhood, as a microcosm of the whole. “We have now condensed every thing that we found about the ghosts, places and events of the 3 Streets into an archive, which is currently available to view at ‘Floriography’, 154 Wells Road. “We hope that you will be amused, informed, and possibly, even a little shocked by what we have uncovered.”
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give a room a calming, open touch; adding a simple wall mural in a character tone will create cosy and creative details. Comfortable and cuddly textiles, cushions will finish off the look of the cosy corners, and complete the design theme of the room. Darker, warm background tones create a cosy, intimate feel, and allow for a touch of daring bright coloured theme to light up the walls, whether it is a piece of artwork or a wall mural. The look can be completed with a balance of bright and complementing dark coloured textiles, cushions blankets, and even some daring coloured furniture. We at TiG KIDS are interior decorators, creating fun spots to chill, play and inspire. Our designs are timeless and effortlessly stylish. little one’s mind to just freely be and reinvent the world around
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Community garden breathes new life into overgrown space Continued from front page The garden – which was built using recycled and sustainable materials – includes 12 raised beds, a wildlife pond and dipping platform, a composting area, storage facilities, fruit trees, and bat and bird boxes. Improvements to the area were carried out by the hardworking estate team and volunteers, managed and supervised by Nick Bull and Liam Matthews, and funded through grants from Tesco Bags of Help initiative and QBE insurance company. Designs for the site were created by Nicholas Pearsons Associates. At the launch event, pupils planted flowers, herbs and strawberry plants – supplied by the local Riverside Garden Centre – and guests were invited to enjoy refreshments and cake from the local bakery,
Year 3 pupils from Hillcrest Primary planting fruits and flowers in their raised bed at Arnos Vale’s new community garden
Cakesmiths. Now, Arnos Vale is looking for voluntary community groups to maintain the garden and help it become a vibrant and sensory space for all. Arnos Vale CEO Ellie Collier thanked the volunteers and estate team for their hard work.
She said: “I have been lucky enough to see this community garden rise up from nothing in the short time I have been here and that is thanks to the hard work and dedication that Liam, Nick and all the volunteers have put into this. “It is a huge achievement,
congratulations to you all. It really looks fantastic.” Cllr Jos Clarke, who is ward councillor for Brislington West and also a trustee of Arnos Vale Cemetery, said: “I have quite an affiliation with the cemetery – it’s a fantastic space, so close to home and so well used by all ages, getting to and from school, or people doing things such as mindfulness photography. There are so many people who can access the space – it’s a green lung for the city.”
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A cat among the pigeons When a Windmill Hill resident’s rescue cat went missing, she couldn’t help but fear the worst. Samantha Jenkins had adopted Oscar while volunteering at a refugee camp in Greece - he was a stray and she took him under her wing.
Ali Milree scaling the tree to rescue Oscar
She brought him home to Bristol over a month ago but when he didn’t return home one evening after being let out, concern started to set in. Samantha put out a desperate plea on social media to find her black and white cat who had been missing for two nights. It wasn’t until Samantha was walking through St John’s burial ground, off St John’s Lane, with her dog - also rescued and brought home from Greece - that she heard a familiar noise. Nestled in a bird’s nest, high up in the branches of a tree was Oscar. After an urgent call for help on the Windmill Hill and Victoria Park Facebook group, Bedminster tree surgeon, Ali Milree, came to the rescue. An hour later, after carefully manoeuvring between branches, Ali managed to bring Oscar back to safety - much to the relief of his owner, friends and onlookers gathered in the park.
Oscar being caught in a blanket after tree surgeon Ali dropped him to safety from the branch above Speaking to the South Bristol Voice, Samantha said: “It was such a huge relief when I found that he was alive. He’s my best buddy and the best cat in the world. “I am so happy that he is home and safe.” She says it is not the first time this has happened and she once had to rescue Oscar from a tree in Greece. It was the first time that
Ali, who has been working as a self-employed tree suregeon for three years, has been called on to rescue a cat. He was just on his way home from work when he received the desperate call from Samantha. He said: “All tree surgeons get a call out at some point - I know a few guys who have rescued cats from trees.”
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n FATHER JACK HOUSE
19th July 1935 - 21st June 2019
‘I’ve been proud to call Jack my friend’ Father Jack House touched the lives of many local people with his infectious humour, kind heartedness, and dedication to the local community. A close friend shares his fond memories of Father Jack and reflects on why the vicar was such an extraordinary character ... Father Jack House was not a ‘normal vicar’. He was a oneoff, a well known, and indeed legendary figure not only in the churches in which he served but throughout the community in Bedminster and Ashton Gate and beyond. I’ve been proud to call Jack my friend and mentor for over 30 years. We shared a common background coming from fairly humble beginnings; Jack from Pearl Street in Bedminster and me from St George in East Bristol. We had an awful lot in common with one exception. He was one of Bristol City’s
biggest fans; a season ticket holder, a shareholder and a member of the Senior Reds. He followed his beloved City through good times and bad and never lost ‘the faith’. A well known figure at the City ground the wonderful comments on the City forum ‘One team in Bristol’ are a tribute to a man who was both loved and respected. As for myself, I am a true blue, a supporter of Bristol Rovers and for some years honoury chaplain to the club. We were both ‘ecumenical’ in our football and apart from some good natured ribbing it
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was never a source of any conflict between us. I once invited him to preach at a Bristol Rovers carol service at St Anne’s Church in Brislington where I was the vicar and Jack was Hon. Assistant Curate. It was all going well until Jack pulled off his robes revealing a Bristol City shirt underneath! The comments from the congregation were not the ones you usually hear in church! I was proud and delighted when Jack married my wife Caroline and myself on 2nd February 2002 also at St Anne’s church. He wore his City scarf and I wore my blue and white Rovers scarf. Jack taught RE for over 30 years at Ashton Park School where generations of pupils remember him with affection and a little fear. He was well known for his accuracy with the board rubber! He went on to marry, baptise and sadly officiate at the funerals of those he had taught. He was always delighted when former pupils greeted him in the street. He served the community in so many ways not least as a governor at Ashton Gate Primary, South Street Primary School (now Compass Point) and Ashton Vale Primary School. In 2006, he campaigned to restore a commemorative window at South Street Primary School dedicated to the former pupils killed in the Great War. His campaigning also led to blue plaques being placed on the homes of great but sometimes, little known, Bristolians.
A lifelong socialist, he was a member of the Bedminster branch of the Labour party, the Christian Socialist Movement as well as Amnesty International, Christian Action, the Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, and the Homosexual Law Reform Society. He was incredibly well read and described himself as a life-long student. He gained a Bachelor of Education from St Matthias College of Education then in Fishponds and a University of London Master of Arts in Religious Education and a Master of Theology in Church History from the University of Wales. He was a wonderful priest in the Church of England who saw no distinction between ministering in the church and ministering in the community. He loved the ritual and ceremonial of the High Church, Anglo-Catholic tradition which he described as ‘Bells and Smells’. He was loved and respected by all who were privileged enough to know him. I learned so much from Jack as a man and as a priest. The way I conduct weddings, funerals etc, is just as Jack took them. A couple of years ago I had a meeting with the then Bishop of Bristol. In the course of our conversation he told me, ‘You know what Steve, you’re not a normal priest’. I smiled and said a silent prayer of thanks for Jack House. Reverend Steven Hawkins Holy Nativity, Knowle
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MARVIN REES Mayor of Bristol can continue bringing great benefits to as many people in the city as possible. If you can see an opportunity to improve our green spaces, tell your local councillors what you can bring and what you want to see as a result. I want everyone to be able to access, use and appreciate nature’s scenery. Working with communities and partners across the city, we can make sure Bristol has good quality, attractive and enjoyable parks. An aim of Bristol’s One City Plan, a document that sets out ambitious targets for the future of Bristol, decade by decade up to 2050, is for everyone to have access to excellent quality green space within a 10-minute walk from their home, by 2036. Delivering this goal will be a challenge but it is vital that we meet it, not only for the city’s lungs and public areas, but for the health and wellbeing of every one of us who calls Bristol their home.
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This funding is designed to help councils find sustainable ways to manage and fund parks and open spaces. It will mean we can find our potential to deliver health benefits matched to areas of greatest need. We hope to provide mental and physical exercise programmes in these areas so that we
“An aim is for everyone to have access to excellent quality green space within a 10-minute walk from their home, by 2036.
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hallenging council decisions This is not the same as disagreeing with them, which is Gary very common. It is Hopkins actually getting the Lib Dem council legal officer Knowle to agree that there are sufficient grounds for concern about the way the decision has been made, so that the cabinet decision is put on hold while the process is examined by a committee of councillors. The original challenge has to be signed off by five councillors, then agreed by the legal officer and then put in front of a councillor committee. Very unusually two cabinet decisions from the last cabinet have been called in. They relate to a massive payment, being made to a boat owner in the docks, to remove the vessel which is blocking a development that the council signed up to in 2015. No legal
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advice was sought then, and there is a question as to whether the decision by the then mayor was legal. Those challenging, including myself, argue that the council could and should have done better. On the other ‘called in’ decision, development plans for Arena Island are being challenged. Both call-ins are supported by councillors from Lib Dems,Tories and Greens. We also know that some Labour councillors are concerned. So when these decisions are reviewed by all-party committees will the decisions be reversed? The committees do not have that power but they can ask for a rethink. The odds are also against that, as the committee will have a Labour majority. So why challenge? Put quite simply, it is the only way that opposition councillors can highlight what they consider to be a damaging waste of millions of pounds of public money.
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here you council tax goes Following on from my recent article, which exposed the Chris Mayor’s personal Davies office is costing Lib Dem taxpayers nearly Knowle £1m a year on top of his salary and expenses, I have done a little digging on the subject of agency staff/ consultants at the council. It is entirely the case there can be a logical reason for covering a temporary job this way where it is cheaper and more suitable to bring in somebody short term. However most people will be alarmed to find out that they are paying an agency for one person their rate of £1,450 a day, and that they have become a permanent fixture in council management. This appointment has also managed to avoid the normal all-party processes needed to take on someone into the top grades of council
structure. The HR committee are not impressed. If this was a one off it would be disturbing, but you are paying for 27 consultants who have never been through the full employment process, and apart from the ‘People Directorate’, where we have 8 on a range from modest pay through to £100k -£150k a year, the MAJORITY (13 in ‘Resources’, 6 in ‘Growth and Regeneration’) are on a day rate of over £600, with some costing significantly more ie an annual rate of £150k upwards. At a time when some departments who are attempting to provide real services but are so short of front line staff they cannot cope, this is quite frankly unacceptable. With the council owned Bristol Energy Company having lost £27m of your cash and the Bristol Waste Company struggling, the council have now recruited another highly paid manager to “oversee the holding company”! This is YOUR council tax and the whole situation is outrageous.
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ast month I attended the council’s Development Control Committee Jon meeting to oppose Wellington the application for Labour a tower block of Windmill Hill flats on Totterdown Bridge. Several other residents also attended. Ultimately, the committee decided to approve the 17-storey tower block, a decision I was very disappointed with. There are some good things about the application. The number of affordable homes may go as high as 50%, which are badly needed in the area. It is in a sustainable location with public transport links and proximity to the city centre. However, the scale, height and density of the new development are just not right for the area. The application was recommended by officers for approval, which made it very
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difficult for members of the planning committee to reject. In the papers the officers admit that this application does not meet the recently adopted Urban Living policy on density of housing per hectare for the area, which is categorised very clearly as ‘Inner Urban Area’ with a limit of 120 units per hectare. This application proposes 270 units per hectare, which contravenes the guideline by a significant margin. I accept these are not prescriptive guidelines and that there’ll always be wriggle room in something of this nature for a good development that complements the existing area. However, this proposal is for over twice the recommended density, with a central tower that is fourteen storeys higher than any of the local buildings, and comes with significant opposition from the local community due to the poor design and impact on the local environment. This sets a worrying precedent for future developments in the area such as the Bedminster Green plans.
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xtinction Rebellion were in Bristol in July during a week of direct action, which meant Lucy Whittle inconvenience for Labour some of us, but I Windmill Hill welcomed the light they are shining on the biggest challenge we face as a city. Extinction Rebellion formed last year. They have taken inspiration from the tactics of many political movements including the Suffragettes, the disobedience of the Civil Rights movement in the United States, and the way Ghandi won independence for India. When problems are embedded in the very fabric of society, history shows that nothing changes until you break the rules. Many in the movement are not afraid to be arrested and charged for their non-violent direct action. Climate change is a global problem that we have to fight at all levels – through global
institutions like the United Nations, through national governments, through regions, cities and as individuals. Cities can make a lot of difference and in the US they have taken on a leadership role in tackling climate change because the US Government refuses to act. In the UK too, cities have an important role to play. Our national government has missed many opportunities to act. Technically the UK has met its commitments under the Paris Agreement so far, but that is only because our economy has been so slow for the past decade. Despite poor growth, in the coming years the UK is set to emit more greenhouse gases than we agreed at Paris. Bristol City Council has declared a ‘climate emergency’, which means we will ensure that the City grows in a climate positive way. It is a step in the right direction – one I am very proud to have supported – but not enough on its own to save us. We still need people like Extinction Rebellion who are prepared to break the rules.
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Sean’s epic cycle to raise cash for youth mental health A south Bristol resident is set to embark on a monumental cycling challenge – all in aid of raising money for children’s mental health charity, Young Minds. Sean King, of Upper Knowle, is taking part in this year’s Transcontinental Race, which will see him cycle an epic 4,000km across Europe and endure 40,000m of climbing, completely self-supported. The race starts on July 27 on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and will end in Brest, France. Sean has set himself a target of completing 180 miles a day and he hopes to finish in two weeks. To prepare for the race, Sean – who works in an alternative learning provision academy – has completed several long rides, including ‘This Is Not A Tour’ cycle ride in Wales in June. As part of the Transcontinental Race, Sean is required to plan, research and navigate his own course, which
Sean practising for his big race across Europe, where he will be cycling 4,000km for mental health charity, Young Minds passes through Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Italy and finally France. There are four checkpoints on the way: Buzludzha Monument
in Bulgaria, Besna Kobila mountain in Serbia, Passo Gardena and the Otztal Alps, and L'Alpe d'Huez. Sean can choose when and
where to rest and plans to sleep outdoors most nights in a bivy sack – a weatherproof oneperson shelter. Sean says that he is scared, but excited about the challenge which he sees as “way beyond” his comfort zone. But he believes his epic cycle ride is all for a good cause and hopes to raise £1,000 for Young Minds. On Sean’s JustGiving page, he said: “I work in an Alternative Provision Academy and can see the positive impact a charity such as Young Minds provides. “Young Minds raise awareness about the vital importance of children and young people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health and they could not do this without the help and support of many generous individuals.” To support Sean in his challenge, visit his JustGiving page at: www.justgiving.com/ fundraising/sean-king8
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Joe’s 100% attendance record “The more you put into your education, the more you get out.” These are the words of Year 11 leaver Joe Sampson who never missed a day of secondary school at Bridge Learning Campus – that is 4,750 hours of learning. There were times when Joe felt under the weather, but he was always determined to keep up his solid attendance record. Joe, who finished at BLC in June, said: “There were some days when you do feel bad, but everyone gets a cold … you just get through it.” At the Year 11 leavers’ assembly, Joe’s sustained attendance was rewarded with a £70 voucher to spend at his favourite football club, Bristol City, along with a trophy and certificate. Joe says that his biggest motivation for attending school was learning and spending time with friends. He particularly
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Teaching assistant at Oasis Academy Marksbury Road, Ruby Gardiner, with her Stages dancers
Cool! Ruby is inspiring the next generation of dancers During the day, teaching assistant Ruby Gardiner can be found supporting children with their learning at Oasis Academy Marksbury Road. But out of school, Ruby has a whole different talent – hip hop dancing. The 23-year-old is so good at it, that her and her team have just scooped gold at the World Hip Hop Championships in Florida. Ruby Gardiner – of Dark Angels Dancing Academy in Bishopsworth – was part of a 15-strong dance group which fought off fierce competition from the USA, Mexico, Chile, Japan, Philippines, Wales, Norway and Scotland. The winning routine was just 2 minutes and 15 seconds long but the team rehearsed for over a
year with three training sessions a week. And now Ruby is inspiring the next generation of dancers at the Marksbury Road primary academy. Ruby choreographed and taught a group of 6- to 8-yearolds a hip hop routine, which they performed at Stages 2019. Speaking about her student dancers, Ruby said: “The children were awesome and worked so hard on their routine. They made us all very proud.” Commenting on winning gold in Florida, Ruby said: “Being part of the team crowned World Hip Hop Champions is just amazing. We all worked so hard to prepare for the tournament and we’re thrilled we came home with gold. “I’ve been dancing since I was 4-years-old - it’s definitely my
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Safety is vital I have read your comments that the proposed development on the former Esso Garage at Totterdown bridge having one fire escape is a ‘red herring’. South Bristol Voice has noted what happened with Kensington and Chelsea councillors ignoring safety issues with Grenfell Tower. In Bristol, fire escape issues with the St Monica Trust property in West Street, Bedminster, also led to loss of life, despite also conforming to stringent safety standards. That there was not a greater loss of life was entirely due to the building workers on the neighbouring site who were co-opted by the fire brigade to assist is the rescue. That building is of considerably fewer storeys than that given the go-ahead at Totterdown. It behoves developers and councillors who give permission to these sorts of developments to take the interests of potential occupiers and their welfare into
account and not just those of development companies who have but one aim, to make as much money as they can. John French
United we stand When can we have a secular viewpoint for ‘Thought for the Month’? I try to keep calm in the face of woe and uncertainty, and life’s complex diversity. But after we have interpreted the world in religious and scientific terms, the question remains - how do we change it for the better? How can we bring a halt to the tyrants and tycoons, as havoc continues on a global scale? My belief rests on our knowledge of the human genome. Our DNA as homo sapiens shows how much we belong together as a common race. We have an evolutionary history, together with other life forms, through natural selection, looking back over many thousands of years. We are capable of relating
collectively in peace and friendship. I hope that with united willpower we mortals can imagine a way to make life better, here and now for the next generations. April Foy, BS3
Clean air survey I completed the Consultation on Traffic Clean Air Zone options at bristol.citizenspace.com, it contains a lot of questions on the proposed options and it is our opportunity to influence how this is set up. The consultation closes on 12th August 2019. If you cannot complete the survey online, you can request alternative formats by emailing transport.projects@bristol.gov. uk or by calling 0117 352 1397. It is well worth engaging with this consultation. Mabel Hahner, Knowle Got something to say? Write to news@southbristolvoice.co.uk or to 111 Broadfield Rd, Knowle, Bristol BS4 2UX
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Garden event raises £1,500 It may have been a rainy weekend, but Bedminster’s Secret Gardens event in June still raised a whopping £1,500. The money donated will go towards providing small grants to local projects with a particular focus on young people and intergenerational work. Organisers have thanked everyone who opened their gardens and made the grants possible. If you are a part of a group which wants to help make our community greener and more sustainable, you can apply for a grant of up to £200 to help. Your group must work in the Greater Bedminster area and the deadline for applications is September 1. For more details and an application form, email laura_murgatroyd@hotmail.com or pick up an application form from the Southville Centre.
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BEDMINSTER – the pride of South Bristol. An ancient place, inhabited by the Romans, mentioned in the Domesday Book, it has been a market town, a coal mining centre and the hub of Bristol’s tobacco industry. But there are two other Bedminsters, both in the US. One, it is true, is more famous than the other, owing to its connections to a certain US political figure. Strangely, they aren’t that far from each other – one in Pennsylvania, and one in New Jersey, with less than 40 miles between them. The three Bedminsters show some sharp contrasts, but they also have a lot in common. The story of the two US locations is rooted in the deepest divisions in English society. As we shall see, the Bedminsters have played a crucial role in not one but two revolutionary wars on both sides of the Atlantic. And we’ll find out what unites – and divides – them today. Paul Breeden writes. Bedminster, New Jersey
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S BRISTOL LIVE noted recently, to older Bristolians, being told that something was a “bit Bemmie” was an insult – a reference to something sub-standard. The implication was that anything from south of the river was inferior to people or things from the more fashionable northern side. It sounds like a lot of nonsense to South Bristolians these days, when house prices are often on a par with the posh side of town, and Southville has followed Totterdown into the Sunday Times list of the best places to live in the UK. But this anti-Bemmie
prejudice actually points to a historical divide which may well explain why the Bedminsters of the US came to exist in the first place. Unfortunately, there is no record of any definite personal links between the Bedminster which in the 18th century was a market town in Somerset, and the two townships which took its name in the US. What is generally accepted is that Bedminster PA and Bedminster NJ were both named after their ancient namesake. And with good reason. For centuries, Bedminster – a market town as important as Glastonbury or Frome – had
BEDMINSTER ... WHAT DOES IT MEAN? The name Bedminster contains the ancient British word ‘beydd’ for baptism, and ‘minster’ for an important church or religious establishment. It’s thought Christians were baptised in the fast-flowing River Malago – hard to imagine now, but there were once three water mills. One was just off East Street, near Mill Lane.
rivalled its near neighbour, Bristol. True, the city had the status – the castle, the harbour, the homes and warehouses of rich merchants who traded with Ireland, Europe and the New World. In Bristol and in London, civic affairs were governed by a tight-knit circle of politicians and merchants, anxious to uphold civil order, and the rights to profitable foreign trade – often in monopolies handed out by royal command. Part of this rigid system of social control was the Church of England – the nation’s church, with the monarch as its leader. Anyone who wanted to worship God in a different way was liable to be burned at the stake in the 16th and 17th centuries. By the 18th, dissent was sometimes tolerated – but still the Church, and the rich elite which supported it, had a stranglehold over civic life. Bedminster was more than a little like South London. It was
on the south side of the river, outside the city walls. In London, the South Bank was where Shakespeare built his theatre, away from city laws. It was also where Londoners came to visit prostitutes. Bedminster too was outside the city walls and much less under the influence of the Church. So it became an attractive place to live when, in the 17th and 18th centuries, being a nonconformist – which simply meant that you disagreed with the Church of England’s rules about worship – became more popular and less likely to lead to a death sentence. Central to this movement was William Penn. He was the son of Admiral William Penn, who was born in Redcliffe. He was the commander of Cromwell’s fleet, but he was hardly a staunch republican – he later supported the return of Charles II to the Continued overleaf
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Continued from pg. 19 English throne. Admiral Penn kept well in with the King, partly by lending him lots of money. His ornate memorial is in St Mary Redcliffe. The admiral’s son, also William, was more of a rebel. Born in 1644, by the age of 22 he was in Ireland, looking after his father’s estates which had been confiscated from Royalists during the Civil War. He had already been kicked out of Oxford University for dabbling in nonWilliam Penn: Principled utopian or calculating conformism. capitalist? William Penn persuaded fellow Quakers to In Ireland buy his land in Pennsylvania, but didn’t mind the new he had his first community using slaves both black and white. His encounter with statue in Millennium Square, Bristol, makes no mention the Quakers of his slaving past. – a meeting that was to have huge rituals or even priests, and consequences not only for Penn women could speak during but for the foundation of the New worship. They wouldn’t make World across the Atlantic. oaths, they wouldn’t make war, and they dropped all titles of urope was already riven honour like Lord and Lady. As by religious conflict in a result, in Bristol the many the 1660s. The Protestant Quakers were forbidden from churches of England, Germany doing business in the port, and and other states had rejected even barred from their own the rigid Roman Catholic rule meeting rooms at Quaker’s of the Popes for more than a Friars. As a consequence they century. But once people got had to hod their meetings outside the idea there was more than the city, in Knowle, Brislington one way to worship, the cat was and no doubt in Bedminster. out of the bag. The English Civil Penn, along with thousands War was fought over rival forms of others, was imprisoned several of Protestantism, mainly over times, one in the Tower of whether the king was appointed London. by God as the nation’s spiritual And yet. William Penn was leader. But even Cromwell no revolutionary. He was a very thought worshippers needed rich man. He was one of a new some kind of leadership. So class of Quakers who made less when the Quakers started talking noise so they could make more about the spirit of God speaking money out of business. They through every individual – even traded commodities like food women – the idea seemed almost and manufactured goods like impossibly radical. glass and iron. At first, the name ‘quaker’ was The Quakers and the other an insult hurled by opponents, non-conformists were drawn a jibe at the new worshippers to Bedminster. They were the because they were thought to nouveau riche, often in conflict shake as they felt contact with with the most powerful men in the word of God. But the Quakers Bristol, the Merchant Venturers, bore their new name with pride. who had made fortunes from Quakers didn’t have rigid
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their expeditions to the New World. The most famous, Edward Colston, was so staunchly Anglican that when he founded his school he would only admit Church of England pupils. But ironically Colston, who is now well-known as one of England’s most enthusiastic slave traders, did the up-andcoming Quaker capitalists one big favour. He used bribery to help end London’s monopoly on the slave trade. This allowed Bristol merchants to take advantage of the slave trade too. Now not only could wealthy Quakers like Penn send manufactured goods in vast quantities to the American colonies: they could also send them slaves.
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oday’s Quakers would shudder at the notion that they ever endorsed slavery. And while the movement had started with the revelation that all men were created equal, it also produced a capitalist elite led by men like William Penn. He saw the wide open lands of America as the place to build a new, prosperous and free community, where people were free to believe and say what they wanted. “I would not come to abuse God’s love …nor defile what came to me clean,” he wrote. But as with so many of the idealistic American settlers, his idea of freedom was mainly freedom to live as he wanted. The idea that in the new land people would be free to be atheists, or worship gods other than the Christian one, wasn’t what he had in mind. Penn’s father, the admiral, had loaned Charles II £16,000 (a
fortune worth £70 million or so today). Penn junior called in that debt in 1681, accepting from the King 40,000 square miles which he named Pennsylvania, after his father. He had already drafted a charter for the neighbouring territory of New Jersey, which was used by 200 settlers when they arrived in 1687. Now Penn expanded his efforts, recruiting Quakers and other dissenters from all over northern Europe to people this new promised land. Penn visited Bristol many times, clearly feeling a special bond with the city’s Quakers. Scores heeded his call to emigrate. Among them was Henry Comly, born in 1615 in Bedminster and a weaver by trade. He had four children with his first wife, Judith Clarke, who died in 1670. He married a fellow Quaker, Joan Tyler, in 1673, and they had a son, Henry. On July 10, 1681, shortly after Penn had been granted control of the new land of Pennsylvania, Comly senior bought 500 acres in an area called Penn’s Woods. The next year Henry and Judith moved there, taking Henry junior and Mary, a daughter from his first marriage.
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t’s not known what price Comly paid for his land, but Penn’s usual fee was 40 shillings per 100 acres – £2 (around £7,000 at today’s values). That equates to less than 5d (2.5p) per acre. To rent an acre of farmland in England would cost four shillings (20p) a year – so land in Pennsylvania was a bargain. However, as in today’s world, there was one rule for the rich and another for the poor. Huge
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Description Former market town and mining area, now city suburb Area 2.84 sq miles (BS3 postcode) Landmarks Ashton Gate football & rugby stadium, Tobacco Factory theatre, Ashton Court estate Population 24,800* Representatives: Local 2 Labour, 2 Green councillors on Bristol City Council National Karin Smyth MP, Labour Average earnings £28,000* (2018) Diversity Bedminster 88.3% white, 6% black & minority ethnic Southville 81.9% white, 9.5% black & minority ethnic (2011 census) Famous residents Billy Butlin, singer Dame Clara Butt, Russ Conway, children’s TV star Andy Day * Figures for Bedminster and Southville wards combined
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n HISTORY parcels of land went to wealthy settlers who would require stately homes as part of the bargain. Watson’s Annals of Pennsylvania for 1685 records: “The Penn family receive £40 of the bearer of a lady in England that intends to go over soon with her family; and many considerable persons are likely to follow. She has bought 5,500 acres, and her first 300 must be chosen on the river… She wants a house of brick, like Hannah Psalter’s in Burlington, and she will give £40 in money, and as much more in goods. It must have four rooms below, about 36 feet by 18 feet large [and] … nine feet high …” The Comly family, though, were among thousands who had to clear their land and build their own houses before they could have any notion of a settled life. They sometimes faced the not-unreasonable opposition of Native Americans as well as disease and a harsh winter
climate. The Comlys had a trade and probably some savings; others were reduced to living in caves. All had to pay rent to Penn, who lived in an enormous mansion at Pennsbury, on the Delaware River. We don’t know the reason, but two years after his arrival, Henry Comly fell ill. He died in March 1684. What can we say about the decision to name two of the new townships in Penn’s new lands after Bedminster, Somerset? Little, with certainty. We can trace the emigration of the Comly family from the original Bedminster. There were probably many more families from the south side of Bristol who did the same thing but haven’t been identified. What is interesting is that Henry Comly senior died in Warminster, just 18 miles from where Bedminster Township, PA, would be founded in 1741. It’s also only 45 miles from where the other Bedminster Township
in New Jersey would be settled in 1710. Curiously, the first settlers of the NJ Bedminster were reckoned to be Dutch and German, followed by Scots-Irish. The same mix of immigrants was to be found across Penn’s territory. The place names found there reflect this heritage – Schuykill, Fogelsville and Edinburgh, for example. But it’s striking how many names there are from the vicinity of Bristol – particularly the countryside, where non-conformism spread more readily. Near Bedminster NJ are Tewksbury (from Tewkesbury, Glos); Bridgewater (Bridgwater, Somerset) and Somerset (a district of Franklin Township, as well as the name of the NJ county which contains Bedminster Township). Near the Pennsylvania Bedminster we find Warminster (Wiltshire), Kingwood (reminiscent of Kingswood, Bristol?) and, on the Delaware River, the port of Bristol, founded by a Samuel Clift from Nailsworth, Glos. The Comly family, like so
many others, spread out across the new land. Henry Comly junior had nine children. He died in Montgomery, PA, 136 miles from Bedminster, but many of his children stayed within 25 miles of Bedminster in places like Abington, Southampton and Buckingham. Did they talk of the place almost 3,400 miles away their father and grandparents had lived? Someone must have remembered, because the New Jersey Bedminster was occupied in 1710, and the Pennsylvania one in 1741. In Pennsylvania, 35 residents, mainly Irish and German, petitioned the Court of Quarter Sessions to name the new township. The land was surveyed by John Chapman – who is said to be the one who named it after its Somerset forebear, though we can’t definitely link him to Bristol. In New Jersey, the citizens eventually petitioned King George II himself to grant their rights of township. How did they prosper? What did the Bedminsters become? We’ll find out next month.
Will Writing & Estate Planning Trump National: Donald Trump spends so much time at his golf resort and country club in Bedminster NJ that the US press calls it the Summer White House. Daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband are said to use one of 11 cottages on the estate. Trump is said to save almost $80,000 a year in taxes by keeping eight goats on the property, as well as another nearby golf course, to qualify for a farmland tax break.
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Description Small town and ultra-wealthy suburb 40 miles New York Area 26 sq miles Landmarks Trump National golf course, Vanderveer-Knox House and Pluckemin Artillery Cantonment, two sites from the Revolutionary War, 1775-83 Population 8,217 (2016) Representatives: Local: 5 Republicans on Township Committee National: Senate Democrats Cory Booker and Bob Menendez Congress Democrat Tom Malinowski Presidential vote, 2016: Donald Trump (R) received 42 more votes than Hillary Clinton (D) (2,223 v. 2,181) Average income $66,422 (£52,669) (2010) Diversity 86.41% white, 2.06% Black or African American, 0.02% Native American, 8.68% Asian, 6.36% Hispanic or Latino (2010 census) Famous residents Donald Trump, John DeLorean, Mars heiress Jacqueline Mars
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hen we humans need to visit the dentist or the doctor, or have any type of health check, it can leave us feeling a bit nervous. The same is true for animals when they need to visit the vet, even for something small. The animals in our Rehoming Centre visit an onsite clinic room for their check-ups, but over many years, this room has become tired, worn and desperately needs a little TLC. Our Wellbeing Room Appeal is raising money to renovate this room and completely transform it into a soothing and reassuring area for our animals to visit for treatment. To help increase our animals’ feelings of comfort, the room will get a lick of paint, new flooring, tiles and new lighting. And to help keep all of our animal patients at a comfortable temperature, especially during the colder months, we need to install improved heating in the room.
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BRISTOL CITY ROUND-UP
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In MARTIN POWELL’S preview of the 2019/20 season, he believes that the very first game - against Leeds United - could be a pointer to the next 10 months
hampionship football returns to Ashton Gate on Sunday, August 4 and it couldn’t be a more exciting start to the season. The fixture list sees Leeds United as the first opponents for the newly chirpily-liveried “Robins”. I’m not alone in thinking that Leeds are going to be near the top of the table come next May, so the opening day result will surely be a good indication of how City might fare this time out. I must confess that a trip to Elland Road in 1974 to see Donnie Gillies score the only goal of the game to silence over 47,000 fans and knock Leeds out of the FA Cup was the catalyst for me to move from being a casual football supporter to a City fan. That was Don Revie’s Leeds with names such as Lorimer, Hunter, Bremner, Cooper, Clarke, Giles and Madeley lining
up against City’s second tier side. But like today’s City team they had ambitious eyes on the top flight and were soon to realise that ambition. The incredible win against a side that had gone 29 games unbeaten sent shockwaves around the country. Pre-season bonding in Florida with the settling in of new faces Sammie Szmodics, Tommy Rowe, Daniel Bentley and Rene Gilmartin will end with a jolt on that early Sunday in August. A win will get the fans right behind the team and propel City through the early season. They have to be fully prepared for that fixture. In fact, August is a month of tough opponents and if City are in the top six when September comes around you will have to fancy them for a play-off place at least. Of course, the big excitement of the summer with has been securing
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n WHAT’S ON The Rising Sun live listings - August Windmill Hill, BS3 4LU Fri, 2: Shanghai Shuffle • Sat, 3: Howlin Wolves • Sun, 4: Lewis Creaven and Patrick Farrell • Sat, 10: Trip for Biscuits • Sun, 11: Harry Johnston • Fri, 16: Sam Pennant & The Callous Lips • Sat, 17: Le Coucher De Soliel (DJ set in garden) • Sun, 18: Max Harrison • Fri, 23: Bandaoke • Sat, 24: Beyond Rivers • Sun, 25: Leo James • Fri, 30: Full Force & Power. Live music on Fri or Sat starts at 9pm and 4pm on Sun. Regular events: Every Thurs, 8.30pm: Open mic with Al Green (free drink for performers) 1st and 3rd Tues, 7pm: Jive Bristol (free jive dance lessons) Last Tues, 8pm: Jame on the Hill (Bristol jam night). For daytime events, follow The Rising Sun on Facebook
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Thursday August 1 n Qui Gong for 50+ on the first Thursday of every month at the Southville Centre, 10.1511.15am. Contact Ruth, BS3 Community, on 0117 9231039. Tuesday August 13 n Friends of Bedminster Library is a new group looking for members. We’re meeting at 7pm in Bedminster library. Come and join us if you are interested in making the most of our local community space! Friday August 30 n Making Change Happen is run by and for disabled, older and chronically ill people in Bristol. Why not come along, have a hot drink on us and talk about what’s happening in your area. Last Friday of the month at the Gatehouse Centre Cafe, Hareclive Rd, Bristol BS13 9JN. 10.30am to 12.30pm.
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n Acting Out drama classes for everyone aged 4-11, every Monday, 4-5pm at Southville Centre. £5 per class. Contact us Jacqui, 07956 962 422 or Angela, 07823 773 179 for a free trial.
actingoutdrama.com n The Wild of the Words every Tuesday in Aug, 10.3011.20am at The Rising Sun pub, 2-2.50pm at Redcatch Community Garden. Interactive storytelling sessions, age guidance 18 months to 8 years but all ages welcome. £3.50 per child. To book, visit our website thewildofthewords.co.uk or Facebook @thewildofthewords. n Baby Sensory is a learning development programme for babies 0-13 months. Classes at the Victoria Park Baptist Church Hall, Sylvia Avenue BS3 5DA on Tuesdays. For details email Sian at bristolsouth@babysensory. co.uk or visit babysensory.com/ bristol-south n Arnos Vocale Tuesday, 7.30-9pm at Paintworks, Bath Rd. For singers who love classical vocal music, great jazz standards and beautiful international folk songs. Come for a free trial session, £5 each thereafter. For more details Contact Anya Szreter szreter. afm@icloud.com / 07720390275
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Saturday 20 July – Sunday 1 September Catch Bristol’s greatest show as The Invisible Circus take over Brunel’s famous ship, with amazing acrobatics and jaw-dropping feats. Plan your day and save on tickets at ssgreatbritain.org/summer Supported by:
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n WHAT’S ON It’s time these women were given a voice Review The Steampunk Mistress and The Time Machine by Show of Strength and Closer Each Day Company Just days before watching ‘The Steampunk Mistress and the Time Machine’, I went on a ‘Blood and Butchery’ walking tour of Bedminster with the show’s creative producer, Sheila Hannon of local theatre company Show of Strength. As we navigated East Street and North Street, hearing of Bemmy’s dark and grisly history, I knew I was going to be in for a treat on June 30 – the opening night of the steampunk performance. Cleverly set against a backdrop of the ss Great Britain – a machine in its own right – dozens of us gathered on the museum’s ground
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floor to be greeted by H G Wells (Andrew Kelly), the mastermind … or so we thought … behind the prophetic sci-fi novella The Time Machine. The performance – a collaboration between Show of Strength and Closer Each Day Company – wasn’t so much an enactment of the story, but an insight into the acclaimed author’s personal life. It is no secret that Mr Wells was an advocate of free love and within the first 15 minutes of the performance, he had abandoned his wife Isabel (Rachael Proctor-Lane), for his young, scientifically-minded student, Amy Robbins – later Jane Wells (Alice Lamb). What soon became apparent, was Jane’s influence over The Time Machine, inspiring ideas and concepts for the book. Although, there was no denying Mr Wells’ genius. As the show progressed, the audience separated into groups and journeyed throughout the ship, hearing each of the cast members’ stories. We saw Mr
Wells battling to finish his book in time, while the Time Traveller (John Lomas) leapt from the pages to take us on a journey through space and time. “Although we may master time, time will always be the master of us,” he said profoundly, as the ship’s engine cogs whirred in the background. There were elements of comedy throughout, but the biggest laughs came when the Eloi and the Morlocks emerged – the post-human species found by the Time Traveller in year 802,701 AD. In a poignant scene in the ship’s dining saloon, Jane and her mother Mrs Robbins (Lynda Rooke) quarrelled over H G Well’s fidelity and how Jane was falling under the author’s shadow. This was then underpinned in the show’s final scene, back to where we started in the museum, when the women established that – like many of their female counterparts – they will just be consigned to the footnotes in history. Overall, the show was insightful and interactive, and I loved how
HG Wells’ mistress, Jane with wife Isabel Show of Strength and Closer Each Day Company gave the main women in H G Wells’ life a voice. I’m sure they would be thrilled to watch The Steampunk Mistress and the Time Machine and hear their stories remerging … now, if only there was a time machine. Becky Day For details about Show of Strength and its shows and tours, visit showofstrength.org.uk
n ADVERTISING FEATURE 30 years of serving the community The City Farm Café has been part of the community for over 30 years and, being based at Windmill Hill City Farm, sustainability has always been part of its mission. It serves mostly organic and locally sourced food, including lots grown and reared on the Farm itself, of course. There aren’t many places where you can see armfuls of salad, tended and picked by volunteers, being delivered to the kitchen to be turned into colourful salads and brunch dishes. They take recycling very seriously, but composting all their
peelings on site is just the start. They also provide washable wet wipes for dirty hands and faces, and following their ban on single use coffee cups, have recently got rid of single-serve juice cartons too, saving hundreds of cartons and straws in the last month alone. You can now refill a cup with delicious orange or apple juice instead. Their efforts have won them a Gold Award from the Sustainable Restaurant Association!
Plot to plate • Locally sourced Farm shop • family friendly Vegan options • Play area Events • Private hire www.cityfarmcafe.org.uk Windmill City Farm, Philip Street, Bedminster, BS3 4EA
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n THE WICKED WITCH OF KNOWLE In witch I go to Glastonbury
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was on Scout camp when my phone buzzed. It was my friend, Festival Chick. “Witchy!” she cried. “I’ve got a working ticket for Glastonbury Festival with your name on it!”. Glastonbury Festival? I went about 10 years ago with my boys, we had a caravan and spent most of the time in the kids field. I considered what she was saying. Could I abandon my family for a week? Could I bunk off my day job and commitments? Did I really want to go to Glastonbury with all those crowds and could I face the toilets? All these thoughts jiggled through my mind like a pack of fidgety Beaver Scouts at a church service. But this was a golden ticket for a sold-out Glastonbury! “Oh yeah, baby,” I said after a couple of seconds “count me in!” The decision was made. Of course my family were not particularly happy as I waved goodbye from my packed car with
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flowers painted on my face but, to be honest, that made it sweeter. A whole week to myself, well myself and two hundred thousand other people, but I would not have to think about them. We set off the day before the public (later known as the unclean) which was super exciting. There was already a steady queue of cars and caravans turning onto the narrow Worthy Farm road. We joined them waving our tickets at the stewards who were all ridiculously happy, making us giggle like teenagers. We eventually found our workplace and campsite, and with bands pressed onto wrists, tent erected, car parked (it would be a miracle if I ever found it again), me
and Chick went for a walk around the eerily empty site. It was surreal. The next day the public started trickling in and we did our first shift. A canteen for performers and staff of Circus and Theatre with all proceeds going to charity. It was a mix of Masterchef and the Apprentice with Gordon Ramsey in charge. We were frying chips, making salad, washing pots, serving punters and at the end of the day running about with trays of cake trying to sell them. The shifts meant we missed acts like Kylie (phew!) and George Ezra (boo!) but managed to sprint across to the Pyramid Stage and catch the headliners ... although the best bits were away from the main stages. Doreen Doreen, a Bristol covers band, had us jumping to the classics. A young Welsh lad wearing knee-high stripy socks and a scooby doo hat was swaying next to me and before I could say “don’t touch me” he flung his arm over my shoulders and we formed a line of
hopping strangers all laughing and singing with harmonised voices. The weirdest and most surreal was a trip through Block 9 and Shangri La at about 3.30am. It was like the set off Mad Max. Techno loud with bizarre sights. A beautiful girl swallowing fire seductively, suddenly lit her nipple tassels, spinning flames in quick circles. A long-nosed sinister clown was chain-sawing his crutch spraying the crowd with sparks whilst grinning manically. Rock battled with rave forming a wall of sound. There was no stopping here. We were swept along by the vast crowd which dumped us back into the familiar where we were greeted by a giant Christmas tree topped with a human-headed fairy. She blew us kisses from tiny hands. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder a boat appeared from under a bridge with Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson singing ‘Islands in the Stream’. We sailed away with them on a haze of happiness.
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n NEWS Local production about fishing village causes a global splash A film produced by two Totterdown women is set to hit cinemas nationwide this month – and it is already receiving high praise from critics. BAIT is a production by Early Day Films, a company founded by residents Linn Waite and Kate Byers. The film is set within a modern-day Cornish fishing village and addresses issues faced by some of the West Country’s most scenic areas. One film magazine described it as “One of the most thrillingly original British films in years”. BAIT has also received high praise and award nominations at international film festivals, including at Berlin and Edinburgh. Shot by Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkins, BAIT stars Edward Rowe as a struggling fisherman, alongside Mary Woodvine, Giles King and Simon Shepherd.
It is shot entirely in Cornwall and will be previewing at the Watershed on August 22 before it gets its UK-wide release by the British Film Institute (BFI) on August 30. Kate says that although the film’s setting is Cornwall, she senses south Bristol in it, too. She
said: “The film is about family and a real sense of a connection to a place, and to me that’s what Totterdown is about too. I raised my kids here.” She adds that the plotline about the impact of gentrification is another shared factor. Linn is hoping locals will
turn out for BAIT’s Bristol screenings. She said: “So many of our friends and neighbours have already been so positive and supportive and we’re hoping this will translate into seeing the film at Watershed. Good audiences here will help a lot with the roll-out the film to the rest of the country.” To find out more about BAIT and its screenings, visit: baitfilm. co.uk, follow @baitfilmuk on Twitter or visit www.bfi.org.uk/ whats-on/bfi-film-releases/bait.
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n PLANNING APPLICATIONS Windmill Hill ward: Awaiting decision
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49 Stanley Hill, BS4 3BA First floor rear/side extension. Garages adjacent to 25 Monmouth Street, BS3 4SJ 3 terrace houses. 160 Bath Road, BS4 3EF Change of use of ground floor shop, with rear extension, and works to basement to create two dwellings. Windmill Hill ward: Decision 44 Bedminster Road, BS3 5NY Demolition of existing double storey extension and erection of new dwelling in
35 Norton Road, BS4 2EZ Extension to property comprising of rear extension, side extension and hip to gable conversion with rear dormer. 22 Stockwood Crescent, BS4 1AW Proposed two storey side extension.
76 Wingfield Road, BS3 5EQ Single storey rear extension with exterior platform, a new garden decking area and associated works. 36 Wingfield Road, BS3 5EH Balcony to rear of property. Knowle ward: Decision 15 Calcott Road, BS4 2HB
Proposed single storey infill extension. Granted subject to condition(s) 41 Newquay Road, BS4 1EB Two storey side extension. Granted subj to condition(s) • The status of these applications may have changed since we went to press. Check for updates at planningonline.bristol.gov.uk
1 Cossington Road, BS4 1DR Two storey side extension. 6 Greenwood Road, BS4 2SX Demolition of conservatory and construction of two storey and single storey rear extension. 24 Teignmouth Road, BS4 1BH Single storey side extension.
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xactly eighteen months after my husband unexpectedly died I was diagnosed as having breast cancer. News that no one wants to hear. On telling friends and acquaintances I had responses ranging from ‘oooh, my husband’s aunt had that and she died’ or ‘chemo can be awful, poor you’ to ‘please let us know if there is anything we can do’. All normal when hearing news
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like that. The one response that I heard several time was ‘why you, especially so soon after your husband’s death?’ Thinking about it, my response to that question is, why not me? Why should I be immune to pain and suffering whilst other people are suffering? I did have dark days in the aftermath of both events but having a Christian faith I knew that I wasn’t going through either
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ristol’s need for more housing will see development across the constituency in the coming years and I welcome that. However, we must make sure that developers are building the right homes, of the right tenure, in the right place to support sustainable communities. It is vital that residents are involved in these decisions. The Bedminster Framework, as reported in the South Bristol Voice earlier this year, outlined some of the proposals for the area around East Street. I read these plans with interest, so was disappointed to see that a large proportion of the new homes planned for Malago Road, should planning permission be granted, will be student flats. If a housing development is made up of student flats rather than much-needed homes for local residents, it presents a series of
problems. The transient nature of student communities means there can be little integration with the existing community. Students arrive in the autumn and leave early summer the following year – being away for weeks at Christmas and Easter too. With both universities in the north of the city, rarely would students venture further into South Bristol. Chances are, they’ll use their Bedminster home as a base from which to cross the bridge and head north. While some shops and cafes on East Street may benefit from the student pound, I fear that may be the extent of what Bristol South gets out of this. By building student housing, developers get out of the obligation to include ‘affordable’ housing in their plans. It’s affordable housing that we really need in Bristol South. And we mustn’t forget that students don’t have to pay council tax, which means less income for the council to deliver more services (bins, roads and parks etc). What we need to focus on is building communities. Bristol City Council’s Urban Living Supplementary Planning Document outlines this and provides valuable guidance
– what we need to ensure is that developers are taking this into account. What Bristol South really needs is truly affordable homes for families of all shapes and sizes, shops, play space, green areas and, of course, the infrastructure needed to support these communities – schools, nurseries, GP surgeries and public transport. Development at Bedminster Green will require improvements to transport links. Windmill Hill already has transport challenges – with commuters using residential streets to bypass the congested main trunk roads. With more housing planned, we need more sustainable transport solutions. We’re expecting to see more planning applications submitted later this year and I’ll be sharing details of the key ones on my social media channels. As with all planning applications, you’re entitled to have your say and I’d encourage you to do so via the council’s website or in writing to City Hall. Twitter: @karinsmyth Facebook: KarinSmythMP Website: www.karinsmyth.com
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