All Wanders
Library, Bookshop, Coffee
3 July 2021, 10:22 to 12:53
Sector: 
E
E
51 images
I was headed into town to return RA Gilbert's biography of AE Waite to the library and along the way I noticed that Dreadnought had finished their refurbishment, but wouldn't be open until midday. That left me some time to kill, so I bimbled around the old St Augustine's/Gaunt's area for a while, then...
Saint Vincent's Spring
28 December 2020, 10:32 to 12:18
Sector: 
NW
NW
50 images
Fractionally outside my one-mile zone, but I got curious about Saint Vincent's spring, whose last remnants you can see in a defunct drinking fountain on the Portway. Along the way I passed Gyston's cave, sometimes called St Vincent's cave, in the sheer wall of the gorge. It's now accessible by a tunnel...
Fresh Fields
17 October 2021, 12:20 to 14:43
Sector: 
SE
SE
49 images
For the first time in a while, I had the time and energy to go further afield and knock off some new roads from my "to do" list. I headed through the first Hotwells Festival to Ashton and Bedminster to cross off a few of the suburban roads south of North Street.
First, though, I decided to try to reproduce...
Easter Monday Gardens and Flowers
18 April 2022, 11:24 to 13:29
Sector: 
NE
NE
48 images
I didn't really set out with a theme of flowers and gardens in mind for this walk. I just fancied heading up to Clifton Village to get lunch. As it turned out, though, Spring was springing, so a minor theme emerged as I started off with the graveyard flowers of Hope Chapel and wandered up to see the...
A Day Off Wander in Clifton
26 February 2021, 11:18 to 12:59
Sector: 
N
N
48 images
I'm on the first day of a long weekend, and I certainly picked the right one for it. This may be the first proper spring-like day of the year in Bristol; it was glorious.
I headed up to Clifton, around the area where I got my Covid vaccine jab the other day, to knock off a few remaining roads in that...
Arlington Villas and WH Smith Destruction
10 February 2021, 12:14 to 12:57
Sector: NE
NE
48 images
I actually dashed up to Clifton to take a look at Arlington Villas, just around the back of St Paul's Road, one of those slightly odd little enclaves of overlooked housing that you know is there, but you never have a reason to visit or travel down. As it turned out, interesting though the (public) garden...
Prince's Lane
6 January 2021, 12:13 to 13:09
Sector: NW
NW
48 images
The International Grotto Directory website says:
Prince’s Lane might have been one of the original ancient tracks from Hotwells to Clifton, in the Avon Gorge. The site later formed part of Rownham Woods which comprised some thirteen acres. By the end of the 18th century and the early 19th century,...
Jaunt to a Closed Coffee Shop
17 November 2020, 12:07 to 12:54
Sector: E
E
48 images
A fruitless wander, as Spoke and Stringer (who I thought might do a decent flat white) were closed, and the only other harbourside inlet offering were a bit too busy to wait at, especially as I'd spent some time wandering some of the convolutions of Rownham Mead. This last congeries of dull alleyways...
Dowry Square, a Wander Through a Norman Arch, and a Martian House
24 July 2022, 11:59 to 14:58
Sector: E
E
47 images
I've been pretty awful at reading so far this year, apparently averaging about one book per month. That's a far cry from 2019, say, where I got through 41 books in the year. Today's wander was prompted by my rubbish reading, as I needed to go hand back some books to the library, because I'd managed...
Outside the Zone
1 November 2020, 10:51 to 15:19
Sector: 
W
W
46 images
This started as a little local walk with my friend Lisa, but when we randomly met my friends Sarah and Vik at Ashton Court, turned into joining them for a very long wander out to Abbots Leigh Pool. Most of this was well outside my one-mile radius but it was a lovely walk.
An Industrial Wander Through Ashton to Find a View
28 December 2021, 13:21 to 16:01
Sector: 
S
S
45 images
I was just about starting to feel better—the antibiotics seemed to have kicked in for my dental issues, and it had been some days since I'd left the house, and I was at last starting to get itchy feet. So, a wander. But where? Well, there were a few industrial bits near Winterstoke Road in the Ashton/Ashton...
On Disused Stations, Loxton Drawings and Exploring a Shortcut
3 October 2021, 11:31 to 13:33
Sector: SE
SE
45 images
I recently indulged myself by buying a little piece of history. I've mentioned Samuel Loxton and featured and linked to his drawings before, often in the eminently browsable Loxton Collection albums that Bristol Libraries has on Flickr. So when I saw a Loxton drawing of Hotwells pop up on eBay, I decided...
A Long Wander Of Miscellany and Magick
8 August 2021, 12:11 to 17:16
Sector: E
E
44 images
This was a wide-ranging wander. I started off crossing the river to Bedminster, to walk a single little cul-de-sac, Hardy Avenue, that I'd managed to miss on at least one previous walk. Then, pausing only to explore a few back alleyways, I headed for a few destinations related mostly by the Hughes family,...
A Flyover Before and After, but Mostly Paddling Santas
12 December 2021, 12:33 to 16:02
Sector: SE
SE
42 images
My friend Lisa texted me to see if I wanted to pop down and take a photo or two of the event she was taking part in: Santa SUP. SUP Bristol organise stand-up paddleboarding on the floating harbour, and their annual Santas-on-paddlboards event is quite the sight.
On the way there, I grabbed a historical...
Clifton Village, including Oxford Place
15 February 2021, 12:07 to 12:56
Sector: NE
NE
42 images
I've noticed Oxford Place as a tiny little side/back road I've overlooked on my wanders a few times. Today I decided to pop down and have a look, as well as taking a few general snaps of Princess Victoria Street, which I thought deserved more pictures, as it's basically my closest decent shops, and...
A New Wander, a New Cafe
21 April 2021, 12:46 to 13:50
Sector: E
E
41 images
Obviously, I was trying to connect to the industrial history of the Canon's Marsh area, to the old gasworks, the docks railway, the warehouses they blew up to make way for all the rather soulless modern stuff (though I do like the Lloyds building, at least.) But what I mostly got out of today's walk...
Strangers' Burial Ground
4 December 2020, 11:58 to 12:55
Sector: NE
NE
41 images
I tried to find the Strangers' Burial Ground the last time was up in Clifton, but I'd not realised that Lower Clifton Hill continues further on after the turning with Constitution Hill. Sadly it was chained shut, but it still looks beautifully-maintained, perhaps by the same man referenced by this story...
Hotwells and Clifton/Clifton Village
14 November 2020, 11:31 to 13:37
Sector: N
N
40 images
A local walk with my friend Lisa in tow, including a coffee from the cafe in the Clifton Observatory, where I have fond memories of experiencing my first camera obscura, and cake from Twelve in Clifton Village, one of my favourite recent finds for both food and flat whites.
A Random New Year's Day Wander
1 January 2022, 13:10 to 15:57
Sector: 
SW
SW
39 images
I picked a fairly arbitrary reason for a wander today. Really, I just wanted to do a New Year's Day wander just to get out of the house and to set a precedent for the year to come.
My ostensible reason was to investigate what looked like a road on my map that quartered the lawn in front of the Ashton...
The Britannia Buildings, a then-and-now Trinity, and a Bedminster Stroll
7 March 2021, 14:35 to 15:25
Sector: SE
SE
39 images
I headed to Bedminster to do a crossword with my support bubble today. On the way I delved into a couple of bits of Hotwells history, first of all snapping a "now" shot to go with a historical photo of Holy Trinity I happened across recently, and second of all to snap the Britannia Buildings.
The Britannia...