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Alice, Alice in Wonderland, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Book shops, Brillustration, Bristol, English Literature, flemingo, illustration, Lewis Carroll, Mad Hatter, Mad Hatter's tea party, Park Street Bristol, Pink, Queen of Hearts, tea party, tea., window, window shopping.
“It’s always time for tea“.
This depiction of the Hat Hatter’s tea party is by a Bristol based illustrator’s social group called Brillustration and I hope they are still cheering up the shop windows along Park Street, despite Blackwell’s Bookshop relocating since my last visit to Bristol [if this article in the Bristol Post is to be believed].
The Queen of Hearts – “OFF with their heads!”
I have never read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, but of course I’m aware of most of the key features of the plot and I have occasionally found myself, coincidently, following in the author’s footsteps [Lewis Carroll and I have the dodo from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in common for example].
I suppose that is what makes something iconic – when you get recognition with the bare minimum of effort!
The Antics Roadshow blog 
Park Street without a bookshop? George’s/Blackwell’s has seen off Pied Piper, Chapter & Verse, a branch of Waterstone’s and –further up Whiteladies Road — Clifton Bookshop, and if it goes there’ll just be the Oxfam shop (if indeed that’s still there).
I haven’t walked up or down Park Street since August 2015, but I’m pretty sure I bought a book then! 🙂
My sources in Bristol aren’t very reliable, to the point that it isn’t even worth me asking them, so I can’t help you there.