All Wanders
Recreating a Loxton Drawing on a Lunchtime Jaunt
5 November 2021, 12:35 to 13:30
Sector: 
NE
NE
12 images
I did do a much longer wander earlier in the week, but that'll take me some time to process (and cast a plethora of photos into the "out-takes" pile!) In the meantime, here's my lunchtime jaunt, taken to give myself a break from doing the company bookkeeping to send to my accountant so the taxman doesn't...
Rainy Clifton
13 December 2020, 10:04 to 13:00
Sector: NE
NE
92 images
A long walk around Cliftonwood and Clifton with my friend Lisa, taking in some of the 12 Days of Christmas display at Queens Parade, picking up a take-away coffee from Pinkmans of Park Street, and poking our heads up against the glass of SS Peter and Paul Catholic Cathedral.
Rabbits, bad pedestrian signage and good coffee
13 November 2020, 13:18 to 14:13
Sector: 
S
S
25 images
A quick trip with the aim of finding a better way to Greville Smyth park and a good coffee. Sadly I was stymied yet again with the former—it turns out that you do apparently have to take a strange loop around the houses (or at least around the roads) to get to Greville Smyth any way other than my normal...
Quick Postcard-Inspired Hotwells Pontoon/Landing Stage Trip
5 March 2021, 12:15 to 12:46
Sector: 
W
W
15 images
I bought a vintage post card from eBay this week. It's a well-known photo of the Hotwells landing stage, showing what's likely to be a P&A Campbell paddle steamer moored there. (Just yesterday I snapped a photo of their buoy on display at Underfall Yard with its information sign.) It was posted from...
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.
Quick Coffee
19 November 2020, 13:18 to 14:10
Sector: 
SE
SE
28 images
A sunny day, and though I should have probably headed for less well-travelled territory I just headed over to the Marina to grab a flat white from Imagine That's horsebox café.
Quick Clifton Jaunt Finishing with Southville
9 January 2022, 11:35 to 13:49
Sector: 
E
E
6 images
It's been pretty dismal recently, weather-wise, so when Sarah called up to say that she and Vik had just left the swimming pool at the student union building up in Clifton, and would I like to join them for a trip to the Last Bookshop, also known as The £3 Bookshop, for reasons you can probably deduce,...
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...
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,...
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...
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.
Picture Postcards, Bikers and Wild Food
25 February 2021, 12:36 to 13:34
Sector: SE
SE
10 images
I almost didn't bother bringing out my GPS today, but as it turned out I may have knocked off a tiny bit of Baltic Wharf, having been diverted through there on my way back from Imagine That café by finding Cumberland Road closed. Not sure whether it was just some kind of delivery to the roadworks there...
Piazza Glyphs, Seagulls, and the Dual Nature of Dowry Parade
12 February 2021, 12:45 to 13:39
Sector: SE
SE
23 images
Another day, another coffee. I think I may have knocked a tiny footpath in Baltic Wharf from my list of leftover paths in the area, but mostly this walk was about getting out into the crisp February cold and enjoying the walk. On the way I posted a letter at 13 Dowry Parade (home of a surgeon called...
Photo-Free Bedmo Return
7 March 2021, 19:17 to 19:45
Sector: SE
SE
0 images
Unusually, a completely photo-free wander: by the time I'd done a couple of crosswords and played a board game with my friends, it was too dark to snap anything on the way back home from Bedminster. Still, I think I knocked at least one small section of Beggar Bush Lane off my map...
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...
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.
One Albermarle Row, Granby Green and... People
12 March 2021, 12:03 to 13:00
Sector: SE
SE
28 images
I was browsing some historical photos the other day, and came across "Rear of Unspecified House" in the Bristol Archives' John Trelawny Ross collection, and immediately recognised it as being the back of 1 Albermarle Row, just around the corner from me. I've not had much time to research the history...
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...
On Christmas Day in the Morning
25 December 2020, 10:00 to 12:29
Sector: W
W
33 images
A Christmas Day walk with my friends Sarah and Vik, taking in the shipwrecked Shadow and a hilly chunk of Leigh Woods.
Of Bridges and Buoys
4 March 2021, 12:05 to 12:53
Sector: SE
SE
17 images
A trip to Imagine That coffee, so no fresh roads knocked off my list, but I stopped off to snap a couple of the engineering-related bits of the docks: the Campbell Buoy (used by P&A Campbell for mooring their paddle steamers) and Brunel's "other" bridge, the foot/horse swing bridge that now sits sadly...