Comments on: Does Bristol have a West End?

By: chris

chris — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:50:08 +0000

Clifton, around Princess Vic St. and The Mall has become Clifton Village (another marketing idea, loved by estate agents)

Whiteladies Rd, has become The Strip (although the name seems to be dying, good)

I remember the West End idea being discussed in the late eighties and early ninties in a local free paper The Observer, again mainly supported by estate agents.

Leave established areas of Bristol alone.
Clifton, Whiteladies Road, Park Street, The Docks or more posh (The Floating Harbour)

By: West End, Bristol; All part of the planning

West End, Bristol; All part of the planning — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:50:22 +0000

[...] is an intriguing post on Bristol Culture which questions the use of the terms West End and Harbourside for the city of Bristol. From where [...]

By: simon

simon — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:24:38 +0000

I noticed a sign saying West End recently and thought I hadn’t seen it before and wondered where the hell that was meant to be.
I don’t mind a bit of tourist office marketing, but I think we shouldn’t try to adopt/nick well-established London areas to crowbar into a corner of north west Bristol.
People all over Bristol already know it as Park Street, what’s wrong with that?

By: thebristolblogger

thebristolblogger — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:50:47 +0000

Another one creeping on to the radar is the unwieldy ‘Bristol Central Shopping District’ or somesuch. This is, of course, Broadmead to me and you.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:40:33 +0000

I have been struggling with the location of the West End for a while. I thought it might be due to the QEH Theatre opposite the car park but all very perplexing. Nice post, most illuminating.

By: Emma

Emma — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:08:07 +0000

Having the deep (mis)fortune of living on College Green, we have been baffled by the increasing amount of mail we get where the address sites the West End. The West End of what? But then again, it is now on all the street names, so if the highways department of the council have decreed it to be so, it must be true!