tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825494401306917932.post5336179249528168786..comments2023-08-14T10:13:40.619-07:00Comments on The Wisdom of The Wurzels: Virtute et IndustrialUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825494401306917932.post-42451553185298745522016-06-27T14:34:14.195-07:002016-06-27T14:34:14.195-07:00Found this about Brissle soon after the vote on Eu...Found this about Brissle soon after the vote on Europe when like Scotland Brissle voted to continue being European. Slightly cleverer than most. By the way Virtute et Industrial is of course the way true born Bristolians pronounce their motto.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1825494401306917932.post-19644955090108748382011-04-08T07:26:19.663-07:002011-04-08T07:26:19.663-07:00Course back in '68 there was big stink because...Course back in '68 there was big stink because the council had decided Bristol needed an urban motorway and bought up loads of land intending to slam the motorway right through the centre of the city, from Cumberland Basin across the docks and out to where the M32 starts, bulldozing vast quantities of docks, treasured housing and buildingsin Kingsdown in favour of a concrete horror story. Fortunately wiser minds prvailed. or the brown envelopes weren't quite fat enough or summat. One of the reasons stokes croft is such a state today is cos of those aborted plans.<br /><br />Heres a map of the proposed motorway...<br /><br />http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_J1DFyqe2c2w/TS9kN2geESI/AAAAAAAAApA/cG5X58NFx20/s1600/D10424.jpgIxion's Disciplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00301723327087233527noreply@blogger.com