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.
Trouble in paradise â Welcome to the leafy Bristol estate infected by drugs and intimidation People thought they were safe. We are in a bubble but we are not
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The roads are spotless, the shrubbery immaculately pruned and many of the houses painted in calming pastel shades.
More temporary classrooms planned at delayed £25m Bristol school building
The 2021 cohort of pupils could be on their own temporary site for several months
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The opening of a new Bristol secondary school site has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Trinity Academy in Lockleaze had planned to open its permanent building this September in time for its third intake of pupils, but now expects to still be in temporary classrooms.