Category Archives: Hartcliffe

The life and times of Michael Cocks #2

Posted on October 3, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Cocks was known as a very keen but not especially skilled cricketer. He would even extend special whip’s dispensations to Labour MPs absent from votes if they were playing for the Lords and Commons team. He was once sought urgently … Continue reading →

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"Fifteen minutes south" (Final cut)

Posted on October 1, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

(I think that’s enough Lake Shore gags using their pop art machine. Ed.) Any complaints regarding the crude stereotyping of Hartcliffe and its inhabitants to the usual email address please. (Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s … Continue reading →

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“A utopia for workers and bosses alike”

Posted on September 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

This piece originally appeared on the Bash the Rich blog. Fashionable Manchester-based property developers Urban Splash have recently pitched up in Bristol where they’re trying to bring their marketing-heavy gentrification plans for loft living yuppies to Hartcliffe, a working class … Continue reading →

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"Fifteen minutes south" (A bigger Urban Splash)

Posted on September 29, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Bristol Blogger with their resident cartoonist Evelyn Post today present a special limited edition post to celebrate the first apartments going on sale off-plan at Urban Splash’s Lake Shore development in Hartcliffe (Blogger Passim). (Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn … Continue reading →

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"Fifteen minutes south" (golfing extra)

Posted on September 28, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Urban Splash have ratcheted up the marketing campaign for their Lake Shore development in Hartcliffe a notch. The website for the new development went live this week and in an intriguing twist they now seem to be promoting Hartcliffe as … Continue reading →

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“Fifteen minutes south” (press call remix)

Posted on September 20, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Must be Urban Splash’s press call week for their ‘Lake Shore’ development in Hartcliffe (Blogger passim). Wednesday saw Venue – still pluckily keeping that editorial fashionably offline – rather unconvincingly claiming that the flats, priced between £100k and £200k, could … Continue reading →

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“Fifteen minutes south” (slight return)

Posted on September 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The ads say: “A sustainable landmark bringing geo-thermal heating & carbon saving to Bristol” And that it’s: “fifteen minutes south of Bristol City Centre” So what “carbon saving” form of travel gets you from Bristol City Centre to Hartcliffe in … Continue reading →

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"Fifteen minutes south"

Posted on September 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Developers Urban Splash are being very coy about where their new luxury ‘Lake Shore’ residential development actually is. The site of the former Imperial Tobacco factory, nestled charmingly between a dual carriageway and some out-of-town retail sheds, is usually described … Continue reading →

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Lambies set to save south Bristol schools

Posted on July 23, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Top news reaches The Blogger from his friends with their fingers on the fading pulse of South Bristol’s schools. It seems the next business sponsor to be announced for Withywood’s brand new Merchants Academy, run by our old friends The … Continue reading →

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Class in the classroom

Posted on June 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Labour’s new education boss, Derek Pickup, has broken cover and given a keynote interview to The Evening Cancer’s so-called Education Correspondent Linda Tanner. Tanner is happy to play pat ball with Pickup, lobbing him daft brown-nosing questions to provide him … Continue reading →

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