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Bristol Uncovered is an independent publication launched in February 2025 by Chris McEvoy. If you subscribe you will get full access to the website as well as email newsletters about new content when it's available. All content will be available to all subscribers, but you can support my work with a paid subscription if you want to.
Bristol Uncovered
This is a companion site to Bristol Uncovered (PowerBI) where you can find all of the data about Bristol that I have pulled together from public sources. It mainly contains data about Bristol City Council, our local Councillors and tries to shed light on the inner workings of our local democracy. The data in the site is refreshed on a daily basis.
As well as providing analysis about things like planning applications, it also provides information about Freedom of Information requests, local news stories, Bristol podcasts and even information about Bristol Premium Bond Winners.
The People's Park Bedminster
"In the 1850s Bristol was the third most unhealthy city in England. It took considerable campaigning on the part of the ordinary citizens, supported by the local press, to get the city council to take active steps to create public parks.
After much delay and debate about the city’s approach to the provision of public parks, the city finally accepted the gift of 21½ acres of land by the river in Bedminster from Sir John Greville Smyth in 1881. This became ‘The People’s Park Bedminster’. The Park was renamed Greville Smyth Park at the request of Lady Smyth in 1902, when she donated a further four acres of land to the site."