Jamaica Street
Place
Stokes Croft-side Bristol thoroughfare in the Introduction. Charity shops, stews, hostels and the ordinary urban scenery of the Cravenverse.
Appears in
From the books (2 passages)
…Up steps and along pavement. More drunques. Stokes Croft, Spike Island, King Square, Jamaica Street: charity shops and a brace of stews and the homeless hostels hulking like workhouses. Further along towards Ninetree Hill, the hipsters had been moving in, and bars and cafés had established themselves. You encountered quite often in these places personages such as Timothy and Adrian the twinks, whether or not accompanied by their respective bears,…
“Well as a metter of fect, one was plenning a visit to the Nocturnal E-Mission in Jamaica Street. Curatin’ an epslootly megnificent bust of St Strontius the Muscular, so one is told, orff of which one was rather hopin’ to avail oneself of such an opportunity as might arise to obtain a rubbin’.”