The dialogue rolls on - between the people on Great George Street - and between myseslf and fellow artist/ collaborator Anna Harley. She explains her responses as follows:
” Here is a bit of background on the prints- the historical context of the street has become important to these prints, inspired by the feedback questionnare where some people mentioned how much they liked the history of Great George Street.

Aside from the obvious 60’s hippy/daisy link, Peace and Love references William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge who are reputed to have first met at the Georgian house on Great George Street ‘Lyrical Ballads’ is a collection of poems by the pair, published by the Bristol bookseller Joseph Cottle and is ‘generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry’ (source-wikipedia) the phone numbers are their birth and death dates.

Freedom references Pero, a black slave bought in Nevis in the West Indies by the plantation owner John Pinney, who lived at who named him Pero Jones. Pinney brought Pero back with him when he moved to England in 1783, but left his two sisters, Nancy and Sheeba at the sugar plantation in Nevis. Pero lived, worked and died at number 7 Great George Street- according to the Georgian House, Pero enjoyed an unusual level of freedom ‘for a slave’. Again the contact number is his birth and death date. In 1999 a footbridge, named after Pero, was opened in the docks area of Bristol, so his name is well known to Bristol folk. The bridge ‘is one of the few public monuments to the Black and Asian presence in the whole of Britain’ (source -http:/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/journeys/virtual_tour_html/bristol/bristol.htm)