The Frontline: Black & White Cafe, Grosvenor Rd, St Pauls, Bristol, UK -1986
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- BBC News covering 'Operation Delivery' : a Police raid by 600 officers on the Black & White Cafe on Grosvenor Road and neighbouring premises in the St Pauls area of Bristol in 1986........
The Black & White Cafe was a famous 'Frontline' meeting place for Bristol's Afro Caribbean youths since the 1970s and a similar raid in 1980 triggered riots in the city 1 year before the famous Brixton and Toxteth Riots that kicked off in 1981...........
The Black & White cafe finally closed its door in 2004 - after 3 decades of effort by the Police and authorities to close it down :
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Big Respect to Guvna Gregah for helping to upload the video online !!
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I was 12 in 1986 and lived around the corner from Stokes Croft which borders St Paul's. I can remember walking home from school that day with some mates who lived in St Paul's and the police not letting them go home having blocked off City Road. Back then it was mainly just weed and sticky black you could get from the Frontline. This was a few years before crack came to town. Then shit got real!
Babylon and the blacks having a right old tear up by the look of it sunshine.
what was it like when crack hit
Recall it well. We had an AfroCaribbean ‘gentleman’ break through the entrance door into our computer business…looking for his friend. My secretary managed to get the registration number of the car he drove off in with several other gentleman.
The following we were broken into and £250,000 of equipment stolen.
We gave the Police the car registration and the DI raised his eyebrows and said ‘Yes we know this gentleman well, they’re from St Paul’s’
We asked why they weren’t ‘going in’ to arrest them to be told that it was a designated ‘No go area’ for the Police.
These riots were the Genesis of a race card mentality to cover up criminal activities…Thank goodness St Paul’s was reclaimed by a law abiding, community eclectic, diverse and friendly community that had always been there but afraid to stand up and say NO!
The English cops looked like a different breed them days compared to now I would say in the 1960/1970s about 98 percent of police had racist views which were openly encouraged by their senior staff
At least they didn't get involved in politics like they do today. I think the police are less respected now than they were 30 years ago in most parts of the country.
There's stereotype for reason
Police have always been racist
I would say it was about 5%
And the government.
My Auntie Eline lived there all her life 107 years ago long before immigration, she said it was ruin by influx of migrants...Drugs, Crime and Prostitution... was one of the riches areas in Bristol
She sounds like a racist. Afro Carribbean working class families worked different jobs in Bristol city. It's only the yardies that were involved in selling drugs and pimping women.
Remember a lot of the Irish man helping us that day.
How do you mean?
Yeh actually how u mean?? This was YET ANOTHER attack on Black people Black people been fighting against the oppressor man ever since it is right that anyone with sense would help goes without saying be it Irish, Greeks or even Italians.
Roy Young who you talking too you little pikney. Don't tell me my history I'm 57 and was there at the cafe that day. No doubg it wss a atrack on our community but Irish man had beef with the English at time and they had there own grievence No blacks no irish no dogs was the thread of the days and a lot of them lived in pauls in those days as you would know if you lived there in them times. Cant recall any Greeks or italians!! Don't even know why I'm responding.
Tin tin I'm not sure what u mean by who u talking too u little pickney has got to do with anything? U sound a bit angry for nothing what don't u agree with what I said ? I was there too same in 1980 your going on as if I've said something negative about Irish and I'm part Irish? Yes they may well have helped but I cannot imagine them not wanting to. This was I repeat yet another attack on the Black community that is the point and focus because this is a regular ting & still happening worldwide.
Rico Yes Jackson. Man right. Lot of Irish lived here in those days but things even change now for us.
that was the cops wanting round 2 after losing round 1, I visited st pauls in 1981 or 1982 and I liked it, never had any problems with anyone, did what I came to do and left, all very pleasant and cordial, yellow-man@sensi RIP
You know shits about to get real when the police pull the sun shade over the riot van 😁
Is this somewhere in America or Africa?
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At the time I was living in a flat on the roundabout where City Road joined Ashley Road. We had a clear view of some of the battles. There was a group of 30 or 40 youngsters - pretty much a cross-section of the area’s blacks whites and asians - taunting police, throwing things, then running every which way when the police charged, only to regroup later and repeat the show.
So far as drug dealing at the Black and White, things seem to change in 1983/4. I sometimes bought weed there and never any problem. Then in 1984 someone sold me stalk shavings, I complained and he got very heavy, called his mate over. I guessed he was waiting from some white boy who couldn’t tell the difference. I walked away then went back having lost my temper. Stopped by a Rasta guy I knew. He told me they were bad people, best forget it, and sold me some good weed for a very good price. Found there was a lot of concern about the new breed of dealers, and that it was organised by people from outside of Bristol.
nice history - thanks
I remember going in the Black and White and getting searched cos I looked like 5-0 😂 Great times back in the late 90s for me around those streets. Also remember for long time armed police walking around regularly. Can anyone remember the name of the little cafe I used to go it 2 doors along from Criterion where Ashfield Place joined Ashley Road? Still a cafe there I think but it's changed names a few times and my old brain hankers after the name of the place I had some happy interesting times in!
what was sold at the black and white? Just weed?
@@Will21st naaaah! More than that
@@steverabbits crack and brown, too? Not surprised. I read somewhere the police raided the place 6 times in one day, once!
Honestly places like the Black and White are monuments as to why the war on drugs is futile.
@@Will21st it just moves it on somewhere else really
@@steverabbits yup it does. Out of the dodgy cafes and pubs and onto the streets and straight into the suburbs. Now on the internet and in every nook and cranny of the UK. Often delivered faster than a takeaway. It’s the perfect example of the growth potential an unregulated marketplace has.
Some people have been given special treatment so long, treatimg them equally would be considered discrimination.
I swear the guy in the red shirt @0:17 is a lad I know called Rob Morris.
No that's Bob Handley
Bristol born nd raised! Dad born nd raised in St Pauls, those streets havent changed except for the library 😂 damn! I was 1 years old. Writing a script including this in my 30s .
Their Kids were pushing statues into the river a couple of years ago. Eliminating history. Pathetic.
Tastys?
It was a restaurant just near the roundabout,next to The Criterion.
Remember it well!
Wow some people had flat tops in 1986!
lol ! - yep some areas in the inner cities were the first places for these fashions - before they spread out in the mainstream
My mate had one 87
@@saffronsaffron4848 Us rockabilly punk dudes had them in 1980/81 and onward although by '86 I had grown my hair long...hahahaaa😄
When I looked at the headline, I thought it was going to be a documentary on Middlesbroughs hooligan firm from the 80s
Was that Black beard aka in 5/0 line up at start lol 😂
Remenber judas and ginger
The front line . St Paul's 6 years after the riots . Where i gave a copper an involuntary snooze with a piece a led popping 1980 .
Did that make you feel better I show this too my ex colleague you hit...so it was you then.
Yobbo.
Christopher James hopefully someone will give you snooze permantly
Small knob eh?
@@williamwilliam5066 what ?ill give an involuntry snooze .if ya not carefully .
I’m guessing this was only recorded the other day
How do u figure that out it’s been on here years
Lived down the Road, 1 minutes. The Heart of St Paul;s was lost when they closed the cafe by force.
when you kick back against the police lol even to this day ACAB, feel like inking the 4 dots on my knuckles my self :D
Smoking weed was illegal then and it's still illegal today. So the police were just doing their job in enforcing the law.
You won't
3:21
2021 it might happen again
@@PLEASANTGIFFT "wishing"?
reason being black and white menstrual show was based on black miners old and young and underage Christmas songs for the Poor Black and White Minstrel Show albums and vinyls were all destroyed by certain people asserting their propaganda on Granada TV at the time of black and white television shows around the world no black person looked like that around the world except the coal miners and many other underground miners around the world it was all about cheerful cheering up people with Christmas songs without any swearing don't forget chimneys cleaners Christmas songs children cleaning chimneys looking like Black and White Minstrel Show
Surely the menstural show was red and white?
looks like nice place? hope those ruff necks don't ever come to leigh on sea i don't like the cut of there jib.
this was in 1986 - 32 years ago - things are a lot different since then.........
Cant u see how old the video is ????
also as well for your info . a copper tried to get a grip a me . inthe riots . na not happening ooof off with his hat . 1 2 across his nut with a piece a lead pipping . over ya go . WANKER .
@@christopherjames375 BLOODY SCRUFFY OIK. RUFFIANS RUNNING ABOUT WITH THERE ARSES HANGING OUT. DESERVE JAIL FOR CRIMES AGAINST FASHION ALONE. BLOODY OIKS. WHATS WRONG WITH A BLOODY STIFF COLLAR AND AN OXBRIDGE TIE. OIKS. SALMON FOR BREAKFAST LOVE. HOW SPLENDID.
@@CARLIN4737 another stupid racist does this look like it can b in the last 20 years thick fuck
If that was Turkey they would make an example of 6 a them . Take their shoes and socks off and drive the handle into the soles a third feet . Case and reference midnight express
Big mistake immigration
Wish we could go back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley. 😢😢😢
You're the mistake your parents made.
Not for your women.
That miniature riot started over an Irish and English man having a heavy dispute. The Irish and the coloureds was thrown into communities together in America and the UK through the generations they forgot who's side they was on. But hey they had another for a while. Now it's all too late the state has won by a landslide. Good luck getting out of our future now, we are forced together lime sardines and soon the big infrastructure will collapse. Farmers can't keep up with demands. The poor areas will fall it first and the poorer you are the more you breed and the more violent you become. Sad times awaited our tiny little nation with overpopulation and mass division with segregation. Big brother won. Escape the cage.
Don’t use the word coloured it’s racist haha 😂