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Bristol Harbourside #50places2025

I have been visiting the Bristol Harbourside for years now, well actually decades. It was a lovely sunny day and I thought I would take a walk around the harbouside in Bristol. I parked close to Whapping Wharf and took a nice leisurely walk around the harbour.

I passed the SS Great Britain and the Undersell Yard. I crossed the Merchants Road Bridge before heading back towards the centre. I did consider grabbing some lunch from Ritorno Lounge, but in the end walked away from the Harbourside and up Wine Street to grab a coffee from Caffe Nero. I then finished my walk, crossing the Prince Street Bridge, walking past the MShed and then heading back to Whapping Wharf and my car.

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Then and Now Take Two – Harbourside

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. 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.

After going through some old photographs I found some of the Bristol Harbourside, so decided to go back to where I had taken these then photographs and take some new now photographs.

I took this photograph at the same time as I took the one of the industrial museum. It was taken either in 1995 or 1996. It was taken with my Canon SLR using film.

 

I wasn’t exactly sure which vantage point I had taken the original image.

Now we can see Peros Bridge which opened in 1999. The old Bristol and West building is now a hotel with new cladding.

The sheds are now bars and restaurants, back in 1995 we had the Watershed.