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...
