Robin Askew

Dec 3, 2024 | bristolbooks.org | Robin Askew |Eugene Byrne |Melanie Kelly |Amy O’Beirne

Walk 1: Commerce and Public Life by Melanie Kelly Walk 2: Bristol and Romanticism by Melanie Kelly and Amy O’Beirne Walk 3: Brunel’s Bristol by Melanie Kelly Walk 4: Art and Culture by Melanie Kelly Walk 5: Nature in the City by Melanie Kelly Walk 6: Bristol’s Rock Music History by Robin Askew Walk 7: Bristol’s Urban Myths by Eugene Byrne Walk 8: Unbuilt Bristol by Eugene Byrne Walk 9: St Pauls by Melanie Kelly Walk 10: Hillfields by Melanie Kelly Walk 11: Sea Mills by Melanie Kelly Walk 12:...

Oct 4, 2023 | bristolideas.co.uk | Robin Askew

At the height of the cinema boom, Bristol boasted 61 picture palaces. The advent of TV and subsequently video put paid to that golden age. By the 1980s, the showmen responsible for these often-ornate monuments to their egos were long gone, many of the fleapits had closed and the big cinemas were being carved up crudely into smaller screens. Bristol somewhat belatedly got its first multiplex in September 1994.