Bristol Gold

Whilst the thought of a pawn shop may be horrible when you are hocking your stuff to eat, when you are on the other hand it is a surprising jumble sale of electronics and jewellery.
Bristol Gold sits at the top of Lodge Causeway near Forest Road and is nothing special to look at — a black box shop with staff behind high counters and protective glass. But the window has some nice pieces of jewellery in and good prices, plus mobile phones and ipods. Inside the shop window has a back display and there is a rack of console games (priced £2 to £15), more phones (all displayed with their police check certificate so you aren’t going to buy anything that has been stolen) and a box of DVDs for £1 each.
I felt comfortable enough to have a rummage through the DVD box and came out with a copy of The Thing and Galaxy Quest (ahh guilty pleasures). The lady behind the counter was chirpy and encouraged me to look through the free CD box which was amusingly like looking through a tweenie girl’s CD collection from 2002.