All Wanders
Sunday Morning
15 November 2020, 07:14 to 09:22
Sector: 
SE
SE
82 images
My friend Sarah mentioned the high tide and I managed to drag myself out early, though still a little late. We nearly drowned in torrential rain, but the weather changed quickly and we ended up walking over to Bedminster in sunshine.
Clifton Village: Jesus and the Tympanum
12 November 2020, 12:29 to 13:20
Sector: 
NE
NE
29 images
My goal is walk down every public road within a mile of me; sometimes it's not easy to tell what's public. I've passed the turning for Cornwallis Grove a thousand times, but never had a reason to venture down it, and although the street signs at the end seem to be council-deployed and I didn't spot...
New Year's Eve Hunt for the Portnalls Number One Railway Tunnel
31 December 2020, 15:24 to 16:56
Sector: 
NW
NW
36 images
My historical research took a wander underground recently, partly inspired by the Canynge Square sinkhole, partly by St Vincent's (Ghyston's) cave and its tunnel to the Observatory, and I was surprised to find that there might be an intact tunnel from the Bristol Port Railway and Pier still just sitting...
Quick Hopper Coffee
11 December 2020, 12:29 to 13:03
Sector: 
S
S
2 images
No new streets today—just out for a quick coffee from Hopper in Greville Smyth. Got caught in a bit of a rainstorm on the way out, but it didn't last long enough to bother me much.
Harbour Circumnavigation
1 March 2021, 13:13 to 15:04
Sector: 
E
E
102 images
Normally I don't have enough time in my lunch hour to get all the way around the harbourside. This is a shame, as Wapping Wharf is a great place to get coffee and a snack, but it's pretty much diametrically (perimetrically?) opposite me on the harbour. Today I had the day off, so I decided to go and...
Coffee Run
31 March 2021, 12:06 to 12:43
Sector: S
S
11 images
Not a literal run, but I didn't hang about, as I had a job interview to get to (I was an interviewer, not the interviewee, but you still have to be there on time...) Along the way to pick up a lunchtime coffee I mostly seemed to take photos of the high tide, though I also came across a bit of outreach...
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...
Pastures New!
17 July 2021, 12:48 to 15:39
Sector: SE
SE
23 images
Okay, not much in the way of actual pasture to be had in Bedminster these days, like most of Bristol, but I did take advantage of the current rather toasty weather in Bristol to go and sit under a tree in Greville Smyth Park to read a book for a while before firing up the GPS and taking a little detour...
The Gridiron and Bower Ashton Part Two
3 December 2021, 11:32 to 13:19
Sector: S
S
38 images
On my last wander, to Bower Ashton, I was intending to knock Blackmoors Lane off my list "to-do" list, but got a bit diverted. I also took a little look into the history of the Gridiron, once a cheaper alternative to dry dock that was nestled just south of North Entrance Lock.
Today I had to go to...
Drained Basin
15 December 2020, 12:19 to 13:05
Sector: S
S
18 images
On the down side, I got to Bedminster and found long enough queues at both Mark's Bread and Hopper Coffee that I gave up on the idea of buying a drink and a pasty (from the former) or a mince pie flapjack (from the latter.) On the up side, I got to take some pictures of Cumberland Basin being drained...
The End of a Private Road
27 October 2020, 12:54 to 13:18
Sector: 
N
N
2 images
One of the homes in Windsor Terrace went on the market for £2,000,000 a few years back. This is the closest I've been to it, right at the end of the private road. Presumably they're okay with people wandering down the road if there's a blue plaque to be seen at the far end?
Both the plaque to Edward...
Greville Smyth
28 October 2020, 12:10 to 13:04
Sector: S
S
4 images
Popped out for a coffee in Greville Smyth park, and got a view of the Andy Council work on the side of the Ashton Avenue sewage pumping station on the way back.
Very Brief Hotwells Wander
18 February 2021, 12:14 to 12:37
Sector: SE
SE
15 images
Really just a quick loop of the Cumberland Basin. I was going to go further, and it was a nice early spring day, but I hadn't slept that well and I wasn't really in the mood. Ah well. Not every walk is great. At least I got out of the house for a bit.
Mardyke then and Now
18 March 2021, 12:07 to 12:56
Sector: SE
SE
3 images
Reproducing historical photos seems to be a developing interest for me. On today's wander I just went for my normal coffee at Imagine That, but along the way I stopped at Baltic Wharf (the modern housing estate; historically-speaking, I was probably in between Canada Wharf and Gefle Wharf—about here,...
In Which Our Hero Buys Something Random from eBay
9 March 2021, 12:49 to 13:41
Sector: S
S
17 images
Since setting up a search for Hotwells on eBay I've mostly managed to restrain myself from buying much (or in one case, was outbid, luckily for my finances.) However, I couldn't resist a 1902 flyer for a singalong at the Terrett Memorial Hall, which would have stood five minutes' walk from my flat,...
Misty Walk
30 October 2020, 12:12 to 13:11
Sector: S
S
11 images
Something of a misty start took me around the viewpoint at the end of Spike Island and then on to try to find a new way into Greville Smyth Park. I got lost.
Bedminster
31 October 2020, 13:40 to 15:28
Sector: SE
SE
16 images
Starting up close in Hotwells with a few bits around the Cumberland Basin flyover system, I walked to Bedminster and back on Hallowe'en, including finding some excellent decoration work.
Morning Walk
8 January 2021, 07:38 to 08:35
Sector: NW
NW
19 images
Tempted by a hopeful repeat of yesterday's weather, I got up early this morning and went for a short walk up into Clifton Village, around Observatory Hill, back down the Zig Zag and home. Instead of beautiful and mysterious fog and crisp freezing brightness I got some murk and slight dampness which...
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,...
A Journey to the Far East
25 July 2021, 08:47 to 11:19
Sector: SE
SE
78 images
The far east of the intersection of my one-mile radius and Bedminster, anyway. I was feeling a bit tired this morning, so I motivated myself to get out of the door by imagining one of Mokoko's almond croissants. That got me on my way, and I wandered across to Bedminster, through Greville Smyth Park,...