Nothing Compares 2 U
Sad news and so young, Sinead O’Connor died at 56 this week.
I love this song and video.
Read more about the origins of the song and video on the BBC News website.
Then and Now Take Two – Montacute Circus
This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I quite like those Then and Now comparison photographs that you see in books or on the Twitter or Facebook. The first of the posts in this series was of a council building in Manchester.
I always thought I should give then and now photographs a go. However what I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart.
Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.
I took this photograph of the tree in Montacute Circus in Weston-super-Mare in April 2020.
Walking past the same place in July 2023 I noticed that they had cut the tree down.
Rather sad.
Making Tracks
I went for a lunchtime walk the other day and for no other reason than I was walking across railway bridges I took some photographs of the tracks.
Looking down to Flowerdown Bridge and the South West.
Looking North from Hutton Moor Lane bridge at the end you can see Flowerdown Bridge.
Looking South from Hutton Moor Lane bridge.
The main railway line to the South West passes through the outskirts of Weston-super-Mare before heading down to Taunton and Exeter.
Then and Now Take Two – Type 22 Pillbox
This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I quite like those Then and Now comparison photographs that you see in books or on the Twitter or Facebook. The first of the posts in this series was of a council building in Manchester.
I always thought I should give then and now photographs a go. However what I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart.
Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.
Back in 2019 when they were building a petrol station close to where we live, we found a Type 22 Pillbox when they removed the undergrowth. Recently on a walk to the petrol station I noted how much undergrowth was now around the pillbox.
This was the unearthed pillbox in September 2019.
Here is the same pillbox in July 2023.
Another view from 2019.
The updated view from 2023.
The pillboxes were constructed to protect the airfield, RAF Weston-super-Mare, which was a Royal Air Force station on a civilian airfield in Weston-super-Mare. The civilian airfield was taken over by the RAF on the 1st May 1940 and would remain there until 1993.
Some more views from 2023.
22. Hubooicorn
3. Neuro-Disco-Corn
It is situated on the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
27. Guardian of the Forest
It is situated on the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
52. Butterfly Concerto
Unicornfest is a fantastic public art trail of over 60 large unicorns and 40 smaller foals bringing magic to the streets of Bristol.
Butterfly Concerto is next to St Mary Redcliffe.
Bristol in the sun
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working in our office in Bristol, and now and again I take a walk at lunchtime. I have taken a few photographs of views from my work.
