Category Archives: Harbourside

Local foodie's Watershed dinner horror

Posted on January 26, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

“The Watershed runs itself,” its Director Dick Penny assured the recent meeting on the future of the Old Vic, which he may soon be running. Er, not according to Evening Cancer food critic Mark Taylor it doesn’t. Taylor, like many … Continue reading →

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Cui bono?

Posted on November 20, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Cordwell Property Group has been appointed by Bristol City Council as preferred developer to create a – yawn – mixed-use business and leisure scheme on the site of the ‘O’ and ‘M’ Sheds on Welsh Back. Tom Wilcox, development director … Continue reading →

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Museum of Bristol update

Posted on November 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Predictably the Labour Cabinet nodded through on Thursday the £25m Museum of Bristol project on the site of the Industrial Museum. And just in case any of our elected representatives – not in the cabinet – might have wanted to … Continue reading →

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Will our new museum be Bristol's very own chamber of financial horrors?

Posted on November 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Blimey. It looks like Bristol’s Tories have finally woken up and decided to start acting like an opposition after six months of pointless fawning over Labour’s Bees-Holland-Hammond council leadership triumvirate of proven incompetents. They even appear to have bothered to … Continue reading →

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Our trough: their snouts

Posted on November 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Hurrah! As part of the national Crimestoppers Conference taking place in Bristol last week on the theme of ‘Engaging Hard-To-Reach Communities’, West Country Crimestoppers held a sumptuous black tie reception on board the SS Great Britain “to thank local and … Continue reading →

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E-democracy conflab joy

Posted on October 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Are they keeping this a secret so that selected council staff can scoff all the tax payer-funded canapés themselves? An alert reader flags up the forthcoming Bristol E-Democracy Day – ‘Modern Methods of governance – democracy in action or mob … Continue reading →

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Spot the difference: new brutalism

Posted on June 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The proposed new flagship House of Fraser store proposed for Broadmead The National Theatre, South Bank Centre, London Eugene Street, Kingsdown, Bristol They (whoever they are) say that Brutalism is making a comeback, which is nice. Brutalist architecture was popular … Continue reading →

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How our beach has been turned into a desert…

Posted on June 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Only officially announced last week in a fanfare of publicity, Bristol’s Urban Beach already has more than a hint of fiasco about it. Reputed to be costing £200k, the beach at Redcliffe was supposed to open on 30 June and … Continue reading →

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Bristol's worst Cabinet ever?

Posted on May 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Some of the faces on this new Labour cabinet are horrifyingly familiar from just two years back. The unholy alliance of Holland, Hammond and Bees are exactly the team that plunged the city into a financial crisis in the autumn … Continue reading →

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Hug the Hoodie?

Posted on May 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Those selfless charity workers He’s back! After all these years it looks like Nicholas Hood the disgraced Merchant Venturer caught bang in the middle of the Enron scandal is quietly attempting a return to public life. The former Chairman of … Continue reading →

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