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I was attending a conference in Cambridge, and having arrived, I took a walk around the heart of the city centre and took some photographs. During the time in the city as I walked to and from the venue and my accommodation I took more photographs. These are some additional photographs of various university buildings.
I was attending a conference in Cambridge, and having arrived, I took a walk around the heart of the city centre and took some photographs. During the time in the city as I walked to and from the venue and my accommodation I took more photographs.
I was attending a conference in Cambridge, and having arrived, I took a walk around the heart of the city centre.
It was a nice sunny day, so we headed to Portishead to have a walk around the marina (and probably stop for a coffee).
It had been a while since we were last there, looking back across my old photographs, it was August 2020.
Though my first visit to the marina was only in July 2020. I had been to the Waitrose in the area a fair few times (before the branch in Weston opened), but had never noticed or even being to the marina area.
The original docks closed in 1992 and the area underwent regeneration. It is now very different to the power stations that dominated the area before then.
We walked up to the pier end of the marina.
On our recent trip, the sun was shining, but it wasn’t as warm as it might be with a chilly wind blowing in from the sea.
There are a really variety of boats and yachts in the marina.
We stopped for coffee and croissant at Mokoko Coffee and Bakery.
There are a few information signs around the marina which shows how it use to look in the 1970s and 1980s.
So let’s be frank about this, I really don’t know that much about classic cars, however I have thought in the past it would be nice to own an old classic motor.
These photographs were taken at a car event in Weston-super-Mare today, I can guess what some of them are, but please add a comment if you are more confident than me in what they are (and correct me if I got it wrong as well).
1. Dodge ?
2. Pontiac?
3. Pontiac Firebird
4. Ford Consul
5. Vauxhall
6. Mini Clubman
7. Mini Pickup
8. Jaguar
9. ?
10. ?
11. ?
12. MG
13. ?
14. Morris Minor Police Car
15. Triumph Herald
16. Volkswagen Beetle
17. ?
18. Ford Torino “Starsky and Hutch”
19. Hot Rod ??
On a recent lunchtime walk in Bristol I walked down the Welsh Back.
I started off at Redcliffe Bridge looking down the Welsh Back.
The Welsh Back is a wharf and street alongside the floating harbour in the centre of the city. It tooks it name due the frequent visits by ships from Wales.
The Welsh Back has been an important quay since the 13th century, when it was located on the tidal course of the River Avon.
Walking up the Welsh Back you find yourself at Bristol Bridge.
At the weekend we went to Wells in Somerset.
We walked to Vicar’s Close.
Looking inside the Cathedral. Continue reading “Visiting Wells”
Went for a New Year Stroll. Walked from the Uphill boatyard and marina, to the beach and then up to the Pier and back.
Walked past the River Axe. The tide was out.
Then we walked by the pontoons on the river.
Well, Paddington has changed on the tube map with the changes to the Elizabeth Line services now going straight through, not stopping at Paddington which they did until this month.
Before the Paddington name was on the Bakerloo line.
With the changes to the tube network over time, the map is getting constantly updated and changed.
Went for a walk around the Bristol Harbourside. It was a lovely and sunny day.
On one side of the harbourside is Miss Conduct, a floating nightclub I think, complete with helicopter.
Further down is the SS Great Britain, well an obscured view of the restored historic ocean liner.
Up on the hill are the coloured houses of Clifton Wood.
This is the view from the Junction Swing Bridge.
Then there was Poole’s Wharf, which I didn’t realise was originally a floating dock, that has been filled in. The dry dock though remains, not as a dry dock but an inlet.
The harbourside is now very much a recreational space.
The old gasworks is now a mix of housing, apartments and bars.
Final view from the Mshed looking across to the Arnolfini and the Watershed.
