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âLockleaze retains that strong community spirit and prideâ
By Estella Tincknell and Gill Kirk, Thursday Mar 4, 2021
When the original Lockleaze estate was developed in the years immediately after the Second World War, it was a time of hope and of determination to build for new generations. The prevailing national and local feeling was that, after a lengthy period of isolation, fear and uncertainty, people could finally relax a little, come back together and be optimistic for a better future.
That is, we think, close to how it feels now as life beyond the Covid-19 pandemic begins to look graspable. In the 1940s it was âPurdown Percyâ, the anti-aircraft gun emplacement in what is now Stoke Park, which was going to protect us. In 2021, it is the expertise of the scientists and medics who have developed the vaccines to tackle a pernicious virus, which will keep us safe.