Filton
Place
Filton, reached through concrete canyons and snowbound northern Bristol journeys. A district, not an avenue and not an aerodrome.
Appears in
From the books (2 passages)
…to be observed, irritating hippy hat tilted against the slanting rain, limping along a concrete canyon out in Filton, or past the cloying arcades lining Bedminster Parade, or through some dilapidated Knowle West slum; then pushing through the doors of whichever bestiary was his destination, in order to enquire within whether the proprietor had heard tell of, or even - God save us! - had pass through his hands that…
…hipster bakeries and hipster shops retailing their artisanal this and that, and up through Bishopston and Horfield and Filton. And all the time the snow fell and settled everywhere, and the cars made tracks through it. The snow fell thicker and thicker, and after many hours it seemed to the eye that all was snow, that every last thing on God’s earth was part of the same indistinguishable, impenetrable wall…