Pet Shop Boy ; There Can't Be Many Bristolians Who Don't Know Pets Paradise - After All, It's Been a Feature of City Life for More Than 150 Years. Gerry Brooke Looks Back at the Shop's History.

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › November 07, 2007

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There can't be many Bristolians who don't know Pets Paradise - after all, it's been a feature of city life for more than 150 years. Gerry Brooke looks back at the shop's history.

Geoff Lewis tells me that the pet shop which he has run for the past couple of years from a tucked away corner shop in St Nicholas Market started life on Redcliffe Hill in 1855.

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Pet Shop Boy ; There Can't Be Many Bristolians Who Don't Know Pets Paradise - After All, It's Been a Feature of City Life for More Than 150 Years. Gerry Brooke Looks Back at the Shop's History.

Throughout Victorian times, and indeed right up to the war years, this remained a busy shopping area with eight or nine historic pubs or inns, such as The Ship (which survived as a well-known jazz ven...

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