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