Barton Hill
Place
East Bristol rise over which gulls and omens circle. More topographical than metaphysical, though the birds may disagree.
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From the books (1 passage)
…shrieks came to him from the gulls circling frenetically in the thermals rising from the industrial estate on Barton Hill. Two or three of these, intrigued by Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet’s varnished otherness, approached for closer inspection. Dirty creatures, the Mayor thought to himself, scavengers among putrefaction and decay, dwellers of outcrops and vertical surfaces. Troglodytes; must tell Services to paint their eggs. Somewhere, whence he knew not, he recalled a…