All Wanders
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,...
Quick Around-the-Harbour Wander with Lisa
20 March 2021, 10:08 to 11:49
Sector: 
E
E
20 images
My friend Lisa was meeting another friend for a walk near the suspension bridge, so we fitted in a quick harbourside loop from my place first. We discussed gardening (we're both envious of the gardening skills of the Pooles Wharf residents; we can just about keep herbs alive, whereas they're growing...
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...
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.
Tracing the Route of a Thirteenth Century Carmelite Water Pipe
27 March 2021, 09:46 to 13:17
Sector: E
E
141 images
I got interested in Bristol's medieval water supplies after poking around near Jacobs Wells Road and Brandon Hill. It was during that research I found out about a pipe that's still there today, and, as far as I know, still actually functioning, that was originally commissioned by Carmelite monks in...
Clifton Wander with Lisa, including Bristol Grammar School
28 March 2021, 11:45 to 14:50
Sector: E
E
80 images
I bumped into my friend Lisa in town during yesterday's wander, and we decided to have a wander today, too. We managed quite a long ramble, starting up through Clifton and nipping down Park Row to investigate the two tower blocks I'd noticed popping up behind Park Street yesterday, then took in a few...
Hotwells Evening
29 March 2021, 19:04 to 20:28
Sector: SE
SE
9 images
Just a little potter around Hotwells with Sarah and Vik. I didn't visit any new streets, but I liked a couple of the photos a lot.
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...
Swinging By Sydney Row
1 April 2021, 12:09 to 12:57
Sector: SE
SE
21 images
Another workday, another quick coffee excursion. This time I decided to swing past Sydney Row on the way back from the marina car park where Imagine That have their horsebox. I didn't know until recently that the terrace was built for workers at the adjacent dockyard.
I've also gradually come to the...
The Downs, Observatory Hill, and the Sounds of the Zoo
2 April 2021, 18:21 to 20:16
Sector: 
NW
NW
33 images
I noticed I'd missed a bit of Circular Road and Ladies Mile, and it was a nice evening for a sunset wander up to Clifton. There was something I recorded along the way, not photographically but in video.
Bristol Zoo, the world's oldest provincial zoo, has recently decided to close its Clifton site...
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...
Clifton Village Lunchtime Coffee
7 April 2021, 12:02 to 12:43
Sector: 
N
N
9 images
Unusually for my recent lunchtime coffee trips, I managed to find a new road to walk down: Caledonia Mews, which has a little entrance off Princess Victoria Street and runs between it and Caledonia Place. I've noticed it before a couple of times—if you look up from Princess Victoria Street you can see...
A London Wander in Southville
10 April 2021, 13:37 to 16:18
Sector: E
E
102 images
There's a bit of Southville that I've been meaning to get to for some time, where the streets seem to take some strong inspiration from London. There's a Camden Road that crosses with an Islington Road, and a Dalston Road, even an Edgeware Road. For me these names are more evocative than the rather...
Long Bemmie Wander with Lisa
11 April 2021, 14:55 to 17:37
Sector: SE
SE
99 images
My friend Lisa joined me again, this time for a long wander through "Bemmie". In fact, I tweeted recently using "Bedmo" as my abbreviation for Bedminster, and apparently there's something of a culture war going on. From what I can glean, the longer-term residents call it "Bemmie" and consider "Bedmo"...
Better Look at an Extension
14 April 2021, 12:02 to 12:54
Sector: NW
NW
19 images
Apart from a lovely coffee and a slice of Victoria sponge from Twelve, there weren't any new sights on this little lunchtime jaunt except for a slightly better look at the long raised extension at the back of the St Vincent's Rocks Hotel, where I at least got to see the arches it's raised up on. I also...
Coffee, Pirates and a Spitfire
15 April 2021, 12:47 to 13:40
Sector: SE
SE
14 images
Just a quick trip to Imagine That for a flat white and a date ball (they're really nice), snapping the general sights along the way. No new roads, as has rapidly become the default on my lunchtime wanders, but as I'm in the routine of this project it almost seems strange not to pop my wanders up on...
Desultory Coffee Wander
16 April 2021, 12:12 to 12:59
Sector: S
S
8 images
Another day, another quick dash out for a coffee. I did at least try to take a different route from normal, especially on the way back, where I yet again got a bit lost in the strange paths, flyovers and underpasses that make up the odd maze of pedestrian "infrastructure" among the concrete jungle between...
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 Mall Gardens
19 April 2021, 12:20 to 13:08
Sector: N
N
6 images
Just a quick errand to the Post Office to send off Mollog's Mob, but afterwards I bought a flat white and a new plant from Foliage Cafe and headed for The Mall Gardens to enjoy sitting in the sun and reading a book on the first day this year that's been properly warm enough for it. Nice.
The Mall Gardens...
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...