by PRSC | Thursday, September 5, 2024 | Art, Stokes Croft China, Turbo Island, Weekly Newsletter
Turbo up for sale, 20% off all books, I Eat Swans is back! Plus news, events, jobs & opportunities..
by Lisa | Tuesday, January 17, 2023 | Art, Turbo Island
In October the local landmark affectionately known as Turbo Island was cleared and replaced with blank tarmac. This seems to be an attempt to reduce anti-social behaviour by reducing social behaviour, and is a logical progression in the great Britsol sanitisation...
by PRSC | Tuesday, November 1, 2022 | Art, Event, Stokes Croft China, Turbo Island, Voice, Weekly Newsletter
Turbo Island, King Charles Spaniel mugs, registration deadline for the People’s Art Fair, and our brand new weekly session, the People’s Art Club & Community Drop-in!
by Benoit Bennett | Tuesday, November 1, 2022 | Art, Turbo Island
The sudden fencing off of Turbo Island has got the rumour mill grinding, and the usual reactionaries mouthing off, but what’s actually going on? After months of rumours of all kinds, from spoof planning applications to talk of fencing it all off, we were pleased to be...
by Micha | Wednesday, June 20, 2018 | Blog, Turbo Island
If Stokes Croft doesn’t engage with the World Cup, the World Cup comes to Stokes Croft. And this in proper Stokes Croft style. Turbo Island got a delivery, and an unconventional one at that. Who said you need a residence to have mail sent to you? The content of...
by PRSC | Saturday, November 8, 2014 | Art, Turbo Island
Planning Application now in. Please Have Your Say… APPLICATION TO “UPGRADE” Advertising Hoarding. A new crop of planning applications is spearheading the gentrification pressure in the Croft. Most offensive of these is the application by Insite to...
by PRSC | Friday, December 31, 2010 | Art, Turbo Island
These pictures were unearthed by Rachael Marmite, who organised the archaeological dig on Turbo Island in 2009. The photo below is of the shop that used to be on Turbo Island in 1926. The picture below was taken in 1935. A bus crashed into the end wall of the shop in...
by PRSC | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 | Art, Turbo Island
The archaeological dig that took place on Turbo Island in Stokes Croft last December has now been shown on BBC TV Inside Out West. Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University declared this project to be “One of the most important archaeological projects going...
by PRSC | Saturday, February 6, 2010 | Art, Turbo Island
Turbo Island during its last Community- led makeover, Feb. 2009 Below, the Inspector’s judgement. Particularly illuminating are Paragraphs 11 and 12, of which a small excerpt is quoted below: The (Hoarding is not) preventing regeneration of the wider area or the...
by PRSC | Monday, August 24, 2009 | Art, Turbo Island
Almost a month ago, we removed the chess table from Turbo Island, at the request of the Police and the Artists in Jamaica Street Studios. There has since been no noticeable diminution in street drinking in the Croft. The drinkers have simply moved. They have reverted...
