Tag Archives: Museum of Bristol

A capital idea

Posted on March 26, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Chris Hutt at the Green Bristol Blog has been casting a critical eye over proposed Cycling City expenditure this week. Meanwhile Tory Councillor Geoff Gollop is asking difficult questions (pdf) about the city’s latest money-pit, the Museum of Bristol, which … Continue reading →

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History as bunk

Posted on May 18, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

A brilliant critique of the Museum of Bristol project and its embarrassing heritage-lite approach to the city’s history has appeared on the Festival of Ideas website. The piece, by ‘Tetchy Steve’, is a response to a talk at the festival … Continue reading →

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CONsultants latest

Posted on March 12, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The view of Bristol enjoyed by our new local CONsultants Another post on what seems to be this weeks’s emerging theme: the city council’s sell-out of Bristol to corporate CONsultants from London because the authority’s superannuated senior officer clique who … 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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