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The thriving community demolished for a road never built: Totterdown vs the Three Lamps Interchange

Pedestrian Diversions 25,815 2 years ago
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Planners in the 1960s-70s intended to bless Bristol with a motorway-standard ring road, and to make way for it they demolished a thriving chunk of Totterdown, destroying the homes and business of 2000 people. One small problem: the road had no finalised designs, no funding and no planning permission, and ended up never being built. 0:00 Intro 2:51 Three Lamps junction and the 1960s road plans 7:31 The demolition of middle Totterdown 11:35 Anti-road campaigners 15:11 The rebuilding of middle Totterdown 18:15 Outro Sources, credits, transcript: https://pedestriandiversions.github.io/videos/totterdown-vs-interchange.html

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