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WIXON'S KINK
ST5871 : Bristol : Bedminster Parade & And So To Bed

Somewhere near this spot stood a ladies' underware shop owned by a Mr. Edward Wixon who ... but let Flickr tell the story.

"Mr Edward Wixon in 1952, opened his ladies' underwear business in a temporary building in Wilson Parade. In 1957, the Council told him he'd have to build a more permanent shop, which he did, and this opened in July 1958.
In November that very same year the Council told him it would have to be demolished to make way for the approach to the new second road bridge across the Cut.
He metaphorically stuck two fingers up (for transatlantic readers I suppose that would be stuck "a" finger up) to the Council, and put a notice up in his shop window "They can't close me down; our uplifts are too strong".
The defiance continued for a couple of years, during which time the Council had to bend the road around his shop, which he renamed Wixon's Kink. The shop was finally demolished in 1978."

There may be an old photograph of the site somewhere.