{"id":42718,"date":"2025-03-21T13:43:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=42718"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:06:37","slug":"this-is-the-dream-old-bristol-debenhams-store-becomes-an-indoor-skatepark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2025\/03\/21\/this-is-the-dream-old-bristol-debenhams-store-becomes-an-indoor-skatepark\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This is the dream&#8217;: old Bristol Debenhams store becomes an indoor skatepark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/shredenhams-final.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Debenhams store in Broadmead has become home to &#8216;Shredenhams&#8217; &#8211; an indoor skatepark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The not-for-profit organisation behind the project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusskateboarding.com\/\">Campus Skateparks<\/a>, also run two other venues across the city: Campus Pool in Bishopsworth and Campus Park in Winterbourne. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tim Nokes, the Co-Director of Campus Skateparks, expressed his excitement ahead of the park&#8217;s launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is like the dream. We&#8217;ve always wanted a big space in a central location and now we&#8217;ve finally got it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Shredenhams may only be around for as little as six months, as there are plans to demolish the closed Debenhams store to make way for 500 flats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Debenhams store in Broadmead has become home to &#8216;Shredenhams&#8217; &#8211; an indoor skatepark. The not-for-profit organisation behind the project, Campus Skateparks, also run two other venues across the city: Campus Pool in Bishopsworth and Campus Park in Winterbourne. Tim Nokes, the Co-Director of Campus Skateparks, expressed his excitement ahead of the park&#8217;s launch. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":42724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42718"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42736,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42718\/revisions\/42736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}