The Great Bristol High Street: Glorious Gloucester Road

Traders are the heart, soul and backbone of our high streets. Their shops provide a focus for community, a friendly face and in hard times a helping hand. This project recognises the personalities and services we rely on and which add to the layers of history already laid down with Gloucester Road as the Great Bristol High Street. Following a single first photo post on social media, dozens of people who run, or know people who run, indie businesses have come forward to tell Colin their stories. Now a major project promoted by Visit Bristol and Destination Bristol, this project tells the community story of local heroes and showcases Bristol’s indie spirit to a wider field. AUTHOR: Colin Moody is well known in Bristol as a photographer and radio host. He is passionate about the city and its people and documents Bristol life, his photography being fuelled by ‘the Bristol way of seeing’. Photography awards include joint winner of The Observer on Sunday Guardian Witness Readers Best Photojournalism 2016; finalist Artfund Museum of the Year photography competition 2016 judged by Rankin; and joint winner Heritage Lottery Fund Photography Competition London HQ 2016. He lives in Bristol and is the author of Stokes Croft and Montpelier (THP, 2018). 100 colour illustrations