Stokes Croft Museum defies categorisation. A record of the recent past, it addresses issues that confront us all, polemical in its stance, delivering beauty and message in equal measure. As much Art installation as Museum, it has become a community resource, and a focus for activities from painting and music to social documentary.
The Museum received no funding, relying on volunteers to work in the Museum and garners its paltry revenue from visitors, and donations from well-wishers.

  • Crowds queue for Stokes Croft Museum

  • Former property developers’ signs (Repainted) guide visitors to the Museum

  • Katy and Guim apply the finishing touches, Summer 2010.

  • Foyer on the Opening Night, Summer 2010.

  • Opening Night, Summer 2010

  • The Museum is one room. It may be viewed from a central podium.

  • Jamie Gilman’s Bear dominates the Museum window.

  • Alan 'Bear' Smith

  • “Chess is much purer than art in its social position… It cannot be commercialized.” Marcel Duchamp. Artist.

  • News, Economy, Through the Ages, etc.

  • Economy (Detail).

  • Graffiti, Cinema, Rubbish.

  • Chips (Detail). 3D paints no. 35 Jamaica Street in the 80’s, The property is now PRSC HQ.

  • Painting of the building that stood on Turbo Island, painted shortly after it was bombed during World War II.

  • Turbo Island circa 1935. Apparently, a runaway vehicle caused this damage.

  • Bygone Stokes Croft.

  • Jamaica Street Carriageworks prior to its renovation by Jamaica Street Partners.

  • View of the Carriageworks during major roadworks, 2009.

  • Stokes Croft not so very long ago.

  • 3D paints in Hepburn Road circa 1983.

  • “We are all Artists”. Jamaica Street Fence, Dec. 2006

  • Perry’s Carriageworks (Rear View) 2008. The roof is not fit for purpose.

  • Perry’s Carriageworks in its pomp. Designed by E.W. Godwin, Stokes Croft’s Patron Saint, a man written out of Bristol’s history.

  • North Street, at the bottom of Stokes Croft, back in the day.

  • Corner of City Road and Stokes Croft. This building was demolished by the Council for a road widening scheme that never took place.

  • The No Tesco in Stokes Croft campaign worked with local artists and the Community to paint this mural at the top of Stokes Croft.

  • Paris , Epok, 3-Dom and Sepr paint time capsule pieces behind the containers that now fill PRSC’s working yard on Jamaica Street.

  • Leah Heming sketches out the board that filled one of the arches of the Carriageworks in the Jamaica Street Artists’ foyer. (2007)

  • 4 Ashley Road, a Grade II listed building deliberately left to fall into ruin by would-be developers.

  • Hillgrove Street road sign prior to re-working by PRSC.

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