Carlton Court Flower Shop: Police Seek Man Over Public Order Offence

Avon and Somerset Police have released an image of a man they would like to speak to in connection with an incident at Edith Wilmot Florists at Carlton Court. 

The public order offence took place last Tuesday (October 23rd) around 9.30 in the morning when a man entered the shop and threatened a female member of staff. 

He then left the shop and walked away in the direction of Canford Lane. 

The man pictured is believed to have information about the incident and members of the public who recognise him are asked to contact Southmead police station by dialling 101 or by using the police online form here.  

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Lounge Bar to Open in Blockbusters Site

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I knew there was something missing from Westbury on Trym village centre. There just aren't enough cafes. The proposed opening of a new one - part of the Lounge group - in the former Blockbusters shop - will thankfully solve the problem.

Until this happy day, if I park my car in the Health Centre car park, I have to walk a whole 20 metres to the first cafe  - the Costa on Westbury Hill. If I don't fancy that, or have forgotten my loyalty card, it's miles across the zebra crossing to Cafe Mundo on the roundabout.

If that's too busy, or the clientele are not quite to my sophisticated taste, I have to walk all the way to Carlton Court to the recently-opened Number 7 Kitchen, in the former Me to You card shop.

The new Lounge Cafe (it's part of the chain that owns Tinto Lounge on Gloucester Road and Deco Lounge on Cotham Hill) will, thankfully, be within stirring distance of Coffee #1 ("friendly, relaxed" blah, blah). So that's that side of Canford Road covered at least.

At the other end of the High Street, though, I've only got The Kingfisher Grill, which, despite being under new management, and offering the best all-day cooked breakfasts in Westbury, cannot possibly match the Lounge's claim to be an
 

"informal, neighbourhood food led cafe/bar open all-day.... offering an extensive brunch menu, a great selection of tapas, & more restaurant-in-style monthly specials."

Nor can the Kingfisher Grill's interiors claim to be

"comfortable, inviting, and a bit eccentric"

 

 

Or to offer

 

"highchairs and a free neighbourhood book swap"

So, that's sorted then. Six cafes within a two minute walk.

Anyone would think Westbury is experiencing an influx of baby boomers.







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Carlton Court Gets a Dig Over

Recent visitors to Westbury on Trym's leading 1960s pedestrian shopping precinct cannot fail to have noticed the work being carried out this week to improve the appearance of Carlton Court.

Word from the building site is that, following a formal consultation with businesses based in the precinct, and with the Westbury on Trym Society, the London-based owners of BS9's finest example of concrete retail space have decided to usher in a brave new open area, without shrubs or trees. 

Trym Tales understands that, following the consultation, members of the above Society ("an independent voice for Westbury") were lead to believe that the existing greenery in the Court would be replaced following the resurfacing work. Indeed, members are understood to have arrived at the site before work began armed with a collection of trowels, gardening gloves, kneeling cushions and garden forks, and carefully removed the suburban flora by hand, intending to replace them post-paving work. All this with the agreement of the owners

Instead, it appears that a horticultural volte-face has been performed, much to the annoyance of those now entrusted with the care of over twenty unwanted bushes and hardy perennials. The new scheme - consultation notwithstanding - has no greenery in the square, but rather an open space designed to draw shoppers in.

It's all a far cry from the 820-seater Carlton Cinema which occupied the site from 1933 to 1959.

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Co-op Car Park Happenings

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Two rather different stories from this weekend, both taking place at the Co-op car park on Westbury Court Road.

On Friday early evening, a female office worker returned to her car to find it had been broken into in the car park, around 7.00 pm. She was understandably distressed and was on the phone to the police abut the theft. It is not known whether any items were removed from the vehicle.

On Sunday, I observed a young man dumpster diving in the large red rubbish bin in the same car park. I had often thought this was an obvious spot for a bit of freeganism, but had never actually seen it taking place here. The diver was a young man -  would estimate he was in his early twenties - wearing a pair of red shorts and a tee- shirt and carrying a rucksack. After making his preliminary sweep of the site, he returned and leaned head first into the oversize dumpster in search of edibles. I was surprised how long he remained in an inverted position. His feet and legs only were visible as he rummaged through the co-op detritus. 

The young man emerged with what looked like  a couple of loafs of bread and one or tow other items - all wrapped in their original packaging and all, apparently, fit for human consumption, despite being past their legal sell-by date.

A fellow Westbury resident, who worked at a Clifton branch of Starbucks, tells me that after the cafe closed, unsold food items were regularly placed outside in or next to the bins. Company policy did not allow employees to take food home, or to re-sell or give it away. Which doesn't mean, of course, that people could not help themselves were they so inclined.

 



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