Bishopston, Bristol
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Bishopston is a suburb of the city of Bristol in south west England. Bishopston is around Gloucester Road (A38), the main northern arterial road in the city and Bishop Road.
Bishopston is named after the bishop of the local
The area has a relatively large student population, with 21% of the over-16 population in education compared to 8.4% in Bristol and 5.1% in England and Wales.
Some of the location filming for the cult BBC sitcom The Young Ones was done in Codrington Road and elsewhere. The external shots for the famous "bank-robbing" scene in the last episode were filmed outside the now closed Bristol North Swimming Baths on Gloucester Road.
Bishopston was the home of two Nobel Prize–winning physicists. In 1933
The area has produced musicians of note including
Juventus and Italian footballer Alessandro Del Piero also lived in the district for a period as a child when his father worked as a restaurateur in the thriving Italian community that lives there.
The famous film star Cary Grant (real name Archibald Alexander Leach) attended Bishop Road School in Bishopston. As a child he lived nearby in Hughenden Road next to Horfield Common, where there is a blue plaque to commemorate him.
Bishopston has two primary schools,
The main artery,
Bishopston is home to
The David Thomas Memorial church, in neighbouring St Andrews, was erected between 1879 and 1881 but was demolished in 1987, destroying most of a Gothic fantasy by Stuart Coleman. The building still retains a thin octagonal spire and west front but the massive halls, apse and rib vaults have now gone, and have been replaced by flats by Stride Treglown.
Politics
Bishopston is in the Bristol West parliamentary constituency and is represented by Thangam Debbonaire of the Labour Party. It is split between the wards of Redland and Bishopston and Ashley Down. Redland ward is represented by Martin Fodor and Fi Hance, both of the Green Party[3] and Bishopston and Ashley Down ward is represented by Lily Fitzgibbon and Emma Edwards, also both of the Green Party[4]
Education
Bishopston is the location of Bishop Road Primary School, which opened in 1900,[5] and is the largest primary school in Bristol,[6] notable for having educated Cary Grant and Paul Dirac.[7]
References
- ^ "Bishopston" (PDF). 2011 Census Ward Information Sheet. Retrieved 26 February 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "The last great British high street". The Independent. London. 8 August 2004. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007.
- ^ "Redland Ward". Bristol City Council.
- ^ "Bishopston and Ashley Down Ward". Bristol City Council.
- ^ "Bishop Road Primary School Inspection Report" (PDF). Ofsted. 19 May 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Bristol's biggest primary school gets even bigger". This Is Bristol. 31 August 2009. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ^ "Bristol celebrates Hollywood 'son'". BBC. 8 December 2001. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
External links
- Census data
- Photographs of Bishopston at the Geograph project
- Bristol Buddhist Centre meeting in Gloucester Road, Bishopston
- Bishopston Trading A fair trade workers cooperative.