Walking Class Hero: Takin’ it to the Streets

Welcome to Walking Class Hero a regular blog about walking and the walking environment. Whether you like walking on your own, with friends or in an organised group this blog will cover it. It’ll embrace walking in cities and towns and villages. Walking in the countryside and along the coast and up hills and down dales. Walking through parks and by rivers and across heath and down and moor. It’ll comment on public rights of way, access to open country, permissive paths, public urban space and countryside protection. Basically if you can walk there it’ll be in this blog

Takin’ it to the Streets (Saturday/Sunday 24/25 October 2009)

Back in April 1980 Bristol’s disaffected youth (and probably some middle-aged’s as well) took their grievances to the streets. Beginning in the St Pauls area of the city they were a precursor of several summers of discontent in the UK in the early 80’s. These days the residents of St Pauls and the surrounding area take their grievances to