Tagged: oakfield-road
Sequel Injection
07 May 2021
I saw this tweet the other day and started thinking of my second Covid-19 vaccination as my "Sequel Injection" (to a geek, it's funny. You'll have to take my word for it.) Whatever you call it, this morning I went and got it.
It was in the same place I got my initial injection—my left arm! No, okay, it was at the Clifton College Prep School. I didn't take any photos of the event itself; the NHS production line is so efficient you barely have time to do anything else, even if the privacy of other patients wasn't a factor.
Along the way I mused at all the road resurfacing going on in Clifton, and also discovered a secret (okay, not-well-known and possibly slightly trespassey) way into Canynge Square, and on the way back I knocked off a few streets from my "leftovers list" of north-east Clifton. I've got much of Clifton done now, with the only obvious "to dos" on the east side of Whiteladies Road...
It was quite a long walk, and I'm feeling pretty tired now, though that might be the effects of the jab too, I suppose. Anyway. Tomorrow and Monday I'm walking outside Bristol, I think, and I imagine my feet will need some recovery time on Sunday, so it might be a while before I post another Wander.
Down the side of the Bristol Water building you can see the side of the mound that marks the covered Oakfield Road reservoir.
I think I've mentioned the rumour that there used to be a bungalow in a particular spot on Upper Belgrave Road, owned by Bristol Water, so the man running the pump here in Oakfield Road could get line of sight to the standpipe of the reservoir on the downs and stop pumping when it was full to overflowing.
I'm not sure there's any real evidence for this, but it's interesting that the pumping station here has direct line of sight to the structure dead centre in the distance on this photo—the Downs water tower, slap bang next to the reservoir. It wouldn't surprise me if the upper windows of the pumping station would have let you see a reservoir stand pipe...
Interestingly, I could definitely hear the sounds of running heavy machinery coming from this building, so I guess the original pump house might still house the modern pumping machinery.
