It was supposed to be a gleaming modern new town with a cinema, swimming pool and shops, called New Dundry. But when the first residents moved into their brand new homes in Hartcliffe they found things weren’t quite as first planned.
Now, 70 years on from the building of one of Bristol’s biggest and most famous suburbs, the story of the origins of Hartcliffe are to be told by one of the city’s leading lights who grew up there.
In a talk as part of the South Bristol History Festival, former housing chief and Hartcliffe lad Paul Smith will tell the story of what Hartcliffe was supposed to look like, and what the reality was for the first residents who moved in back in the early 1950s.
