Welcome to Totterdown

Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 10 Feb 2017

Such an apt name, as this view shows the steep terrain close to the River Avon. Post-war this area was composed mainly of rows and rows of nineteenth century terraces, all clinging on to the hills. However, the planners decided to make a clean sweep of the city and improve on the work of the Luftwaffe. A scheme to create a big ringroad was begun with the bulldozer. Hundreds of homes were wiped off the map. However, the big scheme failed to materialise and the empty suburbs left as a memory. However, the council eventually made some amends in the 1980s by building this modern estate - a much more open and airy place to live than the terraces. This is Angers Road and is based on the old original.

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