Steeped in History

[steepholm]

I've lost count of how many streets claim to be Britain's steepest, but Vale St in Bristol is one of them - and that's the setting of Banksy's latest masterwork (photo courtesy of Ayako, who lives nearby).



Coincidentally, Colston St, so named in the nineteenth-century by aficianados of Bristol's formerly bestatued slaver, is to revert to its mediaeval name: Steep Street. It will be hard to make the usual "erasing history" objection stick when it's actually an act of restoration. As citizen, as scholar and as smartarse, I approve.

(Yes, Bristol is hilly.)

Comments

[larryhammer]

(Yes, Bristol is hilly.)

Huh -- I just read a novel set there, and it did not manage to convey hilliness. Of course, it was set mostly around the harbor, which it suggested was where all the hip young things congregated.

[steepholm]

There are a lot of hip young things there, it's true (including my daughter). The harbour, as you'd expected, is at the bottom of the hills.

[sovay]

revert to its mediaeval name: Steep Street.

If it's anything like this picture, it's deserved.

I love your documentation of murals.

[steepholm]

My pleasure!

[conuly]

It does look quite steep!

[cmcmck]

Scholar and smartarse- always a good combination imo! :o)