Last week I read a Flickr discussion about 'postcode wars', linking to an article on BLDGBLOG. Researchers asked young people in several British cities, including Bristol, to draw maps of their individual urban experience in order to explore micro-territoriality: how people identify with a city when confined largely to their own territories within that city (maybe only a few streets from their homes). For example, some young Londoners have never actually seen the Thames...They found that in Bristol, where postcode districts are displayed on street signs throughout the city, gangs spray-painted their postcode in rival areas as a form of aggression.
While out photographing with Pete this afternoon we came across a couple of examples (albeit next to each other) in Downleaze, a street in Stoke Bishop. Quite how this affluent middle-class suburb could be a rival to a postcode area on the other side of the city, in this case the more rough-around-the-edges BS5, is a bit beyond me though...
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Rushed onto the internet after getting back from Kent to see what I'd missed. Nothing. Zip. New job taking it out of you, where's the blog entries the Brizzle curiosities!
Was a very fine walk though!
@Lil' Pete: gotta hold my hands up to that one man - been plain old lazy. don't go far though - more real soon! nice new Howies store opened on Queens Road - they're thinking of putting events on once it's established & maybe even hosting the odd film night from what I gathered from one of the guys there. done a nice job of the place too - lots of reclaimed wood & old furniture... very interesting post here for anybody else reading this btw: http://fao2.blogspot.com/2008/11/bristol-city-centre.html
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