All Wanders
Computer Game Puzzles and the Way to Greville Smyth
18 November 2020, 12:14 to 13:01
Sector: 
S
S
27 images
In which our intrepid hero levels up.
Royal York Crescent
2 November 2020, 12:37 to 13:08
Sector: 
N
N
7 images
I've taken a lot of photos of Royal York Crescent over the years. This time I walked right to the dead-end bit at the far west corner and found a plaque to the Empress of the French. Call me hard to impress, but among the scientists, novelists, architects and artists whose plaques litter the rest of...
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...
Clifton Hill
23 November 2020, 12:09 to 12:45
Sector: 
E
E
36 images
I've just got to the bit in Fanny Burney's Evelina where our eponymous heroine visit a grand house on Clifton Hill during her stay in Hotwells. It was interesting to wonder if it could be any of the places I passed in my lunchtime jaunt, which took in both Clifton Hill and Lower Clifton Hill.
From...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...