Great Western Coffee Shop

Some of you may be amused, surprised or entertained by an article I've just published on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Road_Schemes_in_Bristol

It's been interesting compiling this, and I've learnt a lot. We've come a very long way!

I welcome any comments on errors or omissions.

I like the unintentional pun in Wixons kink. I knew about the diversion around the shop but never knew it dealt in feminine intimate apparel !

Just a top up to another road scheme in the greater Bristol area.

there were plans to have a south Bristol link from the end of the Nailsea by-pass across the Moors to the M5 junction at Clevedon.

Thanks for this. Checking borehole records on the Geoindex site, it may be the intention to build this that has left a trace on the map in the form of a line of boreholes dated 1961 between Long Ashton - ish, swinging round the north of Nailsea and then to the existing M5.

Mark

https://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex/home.html (https://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex/home.html)

Eh?  Where is 'the Nailsea by-pass' then?  I've lived here for thirty years and I've never heard of it.

Chris from Nailsea.

You'll love this website if you've not come across it previously https://pathetic.org.uk/unbuilt/south_bristol_spur/ (https://pathetic.org.uk/unbuilt/south_bristol_spur/)

Blimey!  That's never going to happen - there's more chance of the rail line to Portishead being reopened.  ???

Sorry everyone,should have said Long Ashton By-pass to M5 at Clevedon

Ah, that explains it!  Thanks for clarifying that, infoman.