Bradley Stoke and Downend residents will be treated to Christmas carols with a difference this year, as members from Bridge Community Church adapt a classic Dickens story for a festive service open to all. On Saturday 21st December in Bradley Stoke and Sunday 22nd December in Downend, local families are invited to the humorous, yet poignant play ‘Bob knew Best’
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A decision by Bradley Stoke Town Council to potentially allow more than one food trader to operate in the car park of each of its three community centres has been criticised by a number of local residents and one of the existing pitch holders. Currently, there is one trader (Ozzy’s Kebabs) permitted to trade at the Brook Way Activity Centre
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Thomas is a two-year-old Tabby cat who has been missing from Ormonds Close for a week now. He was last seen on the 1st of December, wearing his red collar that has a name tag on it with a bell. He is terribly missed, and if you could check garages, sheds and bushes that would be highly appreciated. If you
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The group behind a plan to create a war memorial out of the two granite posts in the Town Square at the Willow Brook Centre has come up with an alternative proposal, five months after its original plan was ridiculed in the national press for being a “memorial for those yet to die”. Instead of using the existing gate posts,
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The owners of a house in Watch Elm Close, Bradley Stoke, are hoping their extravagant Christmas lights display will raise more than £1,000 for a locally-based medical research charity. Mike Checkley and Terry James have decorated the outside of their home with more than forty sets of lights, incorporating a total of around 15,000 individual bulbs, and are inviting people
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The December 2013 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine will be dropping on doormats this weekend. This issue includes a four-page Christmas special, with articles on the recent Willow Brook Centre Christmas lights switch-on event and a fantastic charity Christmas lights display on a house in Watch Elm Close (have you seen it yet?). The centre spread contains a
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Sunday morning at Northwood Park, Trench Lane, saw St Mary’s Old Boys RFC host a fantastic Bristol Junior Combination under-16s cup game against Clifton, a match that had a lot riding on it. The two teams had met before in the final of the Gloucester Cup last season, so the home side were ready to dish out revenge, something they
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Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) is to alter the signage at its Brook Way Activity Centre (adjacent to Bradley Stoke Surgery) after a resident complained that the main sign currently in place is “misleading”. Speaking at the October meeting of the council’s Leisure, Youth & Amenities Committee, the resident suggested changing the large ‘Scouts’ sign over the front of the
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I live on Juniper Way and we are often harassed by cold caller of one type or another. I have a very blunt sign on my door (as do many of my neighbours) which spells out what we don’t want. So religions, chuggers utilities can’t argue that it doesn’t apply as they aren’t selling anything. It’s no good pretending you
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I have just moved into Bradley Stoke with my husband. We have found our new neighbours to be lovely and so far have been very happy living here. Unfortunately our new house is chilly! We have found that the original door lets in a lot of cold and also leads to a lot of condensation. We would like to have
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