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Best and Worst in Totterdown, Bristol*

Totterdown, Bristol Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• the turquoise light blue house in Green Street Totterdown, I chose the colour no rude comments please, it needed a nice bright colour to match my feelings at the time.
• The Raisa Gorbachev statue on the beautiful Glasnost Resturant . the whole look of Totterdown from the Victoria Park and the steps Holy Nativity from the cuity with Totterdown below it so I nearly went to a service !
• The YMCA
• Knock em all down lets have another supermarket or Fish Factory YEP! or Car spraying council bribes a must.
• The green temple in Green St.
• The blue House Green street Totterdown ,one of the first houses to start the craze for wacky otterdown house colours
• Any of the well painted houses (bright)
• Old shop on corner of Oxford Street and Cambridge Street - just crying out to be renovated and used.

Demolish It Now Building

• The Bush public house
• To all you snobs who are trashing the garage at the botom of Pile Hill. Ever thought that it's there to provide a service to those without as much money as yourselves? Ever thought that someone's inside slaving away to make a living? Oh and as for lowering the price of your homes I'm afraid that the garage was there before you bought your houses... before Totterdown got "trendy"! As for the Bush pub it's actually the best pub in Totterdown, and has been awarded accordingly. It's the tidiest least intimidating pub around and provides a good place for the younger generation... sorry if the architecture doesn't fit in, but I think that Totterdown has bigger worries, like the increase in muggings and attacks!!!!
• The GARAGE on Pylle Hill Crescent Its an abomination and seems to be leaning on the mosque now any one living in Richmond street who doesnt appreciate how lucky they are ( can we demolish people?)
• The new house on the Wells Road with stretched diamond shaped window spanning 3 floors (so 1989 !)
• That garage who is he paying ?????
• The garage on Pylle Hill corner a disgrace which keeps thousands off house prices and is probably responsible for most of the ills of Totterdown ,how come no one complains about it ???? knock it down and lets have a little park . if the and
• The garage on the Pylle Hill Crescent and Windsor Terrace, The derelict shop at the top of Windsor terrace . The New Found Out (or paint it and clean the nets !) CLEAN IT NOW The Mosque . PAINT IT NOW The 22 houses at the bottom of William St (GRIM) Horrible Red brick YUK !!why cant someone paint one of them ????
• The Bush pub. A grotesque architectural horror without reason or sense of cultural heritage. A bile inducing mish mash of English brick, Modernist concrete, Italianate archwork and late seventies wood and glass. It is also far too big, dominating the skyline in a position which should have a view.
• Car garage at bottom of Pylle Hill Crescent - currently being held together by scaffolding - looks a really state - can't understand how it hasn't fallen down yet.

The Best Things

• All the people in Totterdown you will find get on with anone, no matter the age, colour, religion. Their is upmost respect shown for everyone in Totterdown. People born in Totterdown have a technique of networking with people around the UK. Most of them have brains, talent and style. Basically all the bristolians from Totterdown are the coolest people whether they are straightfoward or nerds, they all have different characteristics which you cant live with or without.
• Richmond Street Ethnic Diversity Arty people Strange Wandering People The hidden gardens of Totterdown .little paradises The Community its like a village every one knows of or has slept with or knows someone who has with everyone .There are still LOCAL people here "YES can I help you at all " is hopw they greet you with their cute snubby noses
• The 3 Lamps (how out of place and yet so gorgeous they look!) Vale Street (but not when drunk, as it's the steepest residential street in Europe) Balcony views of the city from Fitzroy Street Won Tai Sin chinese take-away (best special fried rice in town)
• boss man news agents just after glasnost. never short of a taxi and a spare set of tyres.
• My humour and the views
• Frank Smiths off licence on William Street, you can't miss it look for the crates.Ask him about Totterdown you will never get out of the place, mind its hard enough getting in.(opens 8.00pm beats Dillons for prices hands down)
• the view from Victoria Park , the house with the rooof garden above the steps , the view from Richmond street.
• OUR GARDEN .The Multicultural environment Views from the top of the steps on Richmond street That great house with the roof garden at the top of the steps ! The colours of the houses Victoria Park and its wildlife including the Much fed and loved Squirrel Holy Nativity tower
• Close to Bristol, a thriving and exciting metropolis cheers cheers!!!
• Great community spirit - friendly people, enjoying a nice area of Victorian terraced houses, right in the centre of Bristol, but totally quiet at its centre and next to a 52 acre park - Victoria Park - full of trees and great views of the city.

The Worst Things

• Too many 'less than positive' comments on this site about 'other people', the colour of their houses etc etc. Come on totterdownies, can't we do better than this?
• Worst things about Totterdown... Liberals (The paint your house in bright colours brigade) who feel its their perogative to stick their noses in. Take for example the YMCA building (wells rd). Due to the beareded posh urchins right on attitudes, looks like it could well be left to developers to turn into flats because they wont let the power station gym take it over and keep it as a comunity centred building. I have an idea why dont these middle class activists dig into their trust funds and maybe even re-morgage their Victorian mimalist feel Houses and save the YMCA building from being turned into flats. Or is that just not right on enough.
• Patronising middle class hippies who keep telling people to paint the front of their houses because they look soooo drawb and dweary. Can I borrow some of your daddies money to paint my house.
• It can be a bit grim on a rainy day cuz there are a few dweebs and under evolved people who have no imagination to garden or paint their houses but just throw out a new sprog every nine months and then leave the cars to bring it up . Luckily I think they have moved There was a tribe of Pygmies clinging to the side of the hill but i think they have been captured
• ZONE A (Why oh why)
• motorised skatedboards you can certainly pull the ladies lads!!The saying is if you get mugged in montpelier move to totterdown.
• all the trendy people HOW DULL and the pretend poor people we know youre POSH
• The little kids on bikes on William Street and the drunks but you've got to laugh!!!
• The GARAGE THE GARAGE THE GARAGE unimaginitive people ,the pub on the corner of Green Streets net curtains most of the gardens in Totterdown .
• The traffic Bristol attracts because the people are too complacent to walk to the bus stop in the mornings.
• Trying to get anywhere in the rush hour. All the buses fill-up on the way into town - we're the last stop before the central area. Pointless trying to get anywhere in a car - no one will let you out onto the main road to get anywhere!

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Last updated: 2007-06-21