Time Out has unveiled its seventh annual list of the World's Coolest Neighbourhoods, with a once troubled area of England making it into the top 10. The on the list are all currently buzzing hubs of culture, offering a diverse range of activities and fostering a strong sense of community. These are can be found, alongside a vibrant nightlife and bustling street life during the day, complete with unique local businesses both new and old.
And this year that includes in Bristol in the the west of England. It was praising the neighbourhood as a 'must-visit'. Each year, Time Out the global brand that encourages people to make the most of their city compiles its list of the Coolest Neighbourhoods in the world's most thrilling cities.
Now long forgotten the St Paul's area was notorious in the 1980s for riots - which were a pivotal moment for black communities in the UK. A year later in 1981, Brixton in London descended into four nights of rioting and then in July that year, tensions boiled over in similar circumstances in the Toxteth area of Liverpool. In Bristol, trouble erupted on April 2, 1980, when police raided the Black and White Cafe, in Grosvenor Road.
Locals involved in the riots and calls them "an uprising", said that while there are still issues in St Pauls, there has been progress. "Since 1980, the way race politics plays out in Britain has completely changed. Back then it was almost like a straightforward black and white issue, our parliament was exclusively white.
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