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...
Towpath Evening
25 March 2021, 17:17 to 19:04
Sector: 
W
W
19 images
I was honestly just about to do the homework from my oh-so-thrilling ITIL course when my friends Sarah and Vik asked me if I'd like to come out for a wander down the towpath with them. I enjoyed the company, the evening light and the delicate clouds.
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...
A Swing of the Plimsoll Bridge
24 April 2022, 11:43 to 13:41
Sector: 
SE
SE
23 images
I was originally going to head over to the Ashton area to see if I'd missed any bits around the football stadium—and also to grab some lunch from the Tobacco Factory Market—but in the end I got a little distracted by having accidentally chosen exactly the right time to see the Plimsoll Bridge swing...
Brandon Hill Ramble with Bonus Balloon and Landing Stage Visit
22 March 2021, 16:15 to 18:45
Sector: E
E
73 images
I wasn't going to take a very long walk on this nice spring evening; it just happened. I was going to knock off a path or two on Brandon Hill, home over centuries to hermits and windmills, cannons and Chartists, and then just wander home, stopping only to fill up my milk bottle at the vending machine...
Alma Vale
6 December 2020, 11:36 to 12:31
Sector: 
NE
NE
65 images
I wasn't really feeling it when I set out today, on my first car-assisted wander. By the time I'd parked on Alma Vale Road in Clifton it was just starting to rain and I picked my way about in quite a desultory way. It felt strange, as I was very familiar with the area because I'd walked through it hundreds...
Knocking Off Clanage Road, a Tidbit on the Stork Hotel, and Pre-Flyover Hotwells
6 November 2021, 13:35 to 14:59
Sector: S
S
28 images
I went out simply wanting to knock off the very last little unwalked section of Clanage Road, over by Bower Ashton, which has been annoying me for a while as it's quite close by and I've walked the other bits of it several times. So, my plan was to nip over to Greville Smyth Park via a slightly unusual...
Man on a Mission
17 April 2021, 09:39 to 12:45
Sector: E
E
114 images
I went rather outside my area today, as I went to pick something up from the Warhammer shop on Wine Street (Games Workshop as-was, and before that I think perhaps a rare retail outlet for Her Majesty's Stationery Office? I may be mis-remembering...) Anyway, a friend of mine wanted something picking...
The AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine, Clifton College Prep School, the Zoo and a Missing Bungalow
20 February 2021, 12:58 to 14:34
Sector: 
N
N
53 images
I went to get my first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine today. Handily, the vaccination centre was Clifton College Prep School in Northcote road, next to Bristol Zoo, a road that's just within my 1-mile range that I hadn't visited before.
I parked up near Ladies Mile and tried to find...
Plimsoll Bridge Swing
10 November 2020, 12:53 to 13:53
Sector: SE
SE
32 images
I went to grab a coffee from Imagine That's little horsebox by the marina, completely forgetting that they don't open on Monday or Tuesday. On the plus side, on the way back I was in time to watch the Plimsoll Bridge swinging for a tidy little yacht.
Clifton Sinkhole, Camp Road and a Re-Visited Fire Hydrant
27 December 2020, 12:27 to 14:28
Sector: N
N
77 images
I went to have a peep at the giant sinkhole that's opened up in Canynge Square—ironically, having recently discovered the gardens were public I'd had the (triangular!) square on my list to re-visit for a few days, but now there's no entrance to the gardens due to the danger. The area was well fenced-off...
A Water-Based Wander
11 December 2021, 11:04 to 12:28
Sector: E
E
29 images
I woke up on this Saturday with a headache, feeling like I'd not slept at all. As well as that, I'm still in some pain from the wisdom tooth extraction I had a few weeks ago. I moped about the flat for a while and then decided that the best thing to do was to force myself out on at least a small walk...
Doors and walls, closed paths and chalk
11 November 2020, 13:14 to 14:02
Sector: SE
SE
16 images
I'd love to walk the Chocolate Path again at some point, but it's been closed since it started falling into the river. Still, on this wander to get a coffee I walked down a road I'd not normally use and found a door dressed up as a wall and another door that had been bricked up for real. Odd.
I also...
An Evening Wander to the Gallows
6 April 2021, 17:21 to 19:25
Sector: NE
NE
85 images
I'd originally intended just to pop up to the area around Alma Road, where I'd missed a few streets on earlier wanders. It was such a nice evening, though, I decided to extend my walk up to the very top of Pembroke Road, just outside my one mile radius, to take a few snaps of something intriguing I'd...
Docks Heritage Weekend Day Two: Underfall Yard Substation, Hydraulics, and Bristol Electricity
10 October 2021, 11:36 to 13:12
Sector: SE
SE
70 images
I'm afraid that this is a bit of a badly-curated wander, where I mostly just popped out to find out a little of the history of Underfall Yard and poke around the various open workshops, and, in hindsight, really didn't take pictures in any kind of coherent order. So there's a lot of pictures, but they...
Portnalls Tunnel Explore and Sunny Clifton Wander
27 February 2021, 11:10 to 13:06
Sector: N
N
35 images
I'm glad my friend Lisa joined me today; she drove in from Shirehampton and told me that the Portway was looking rather lovely, so we set off that way. She's also braver than I am when it comes to doing urbex stuff, so this was just the opportunity to take a peek into the Portnalls Number One Railway...
A Trip to the Tobacco Factory Market and a Quick Look at the Ashton Gate Depot Development
7 August 2022, 10:35 to 12:42
Sector: SE
SE
28 images
I'm in the habit of going over to the Tobacco Factory Market on a Sunday. I think I've walked all the routes around that way, but as a Plimsoll Bridge swing let me cross the road to the far side of Brunel Way on my return journey and I took a couple of photos of the brownfield development at the old...
Victoria Square Underpass
6 May 2021, 12:05 to 12:54
Sector: NE
NE
38 images
I'm meant to be taking a little break from this project, but in my Victoria Square researches after my last walk I noticed a curiosity I wanted to investigate. The community layer on Know Your Place has a single photograph captioned, "The remains of an 'underpass' in Victoria Square".
Looking back...
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...
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...