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.
Then and Now Take Three – Cabot Circus
This view of Cabot Circus was taken in April 2023.
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.
I have written a few times about how I have taken photographs of this view of Cabot Circus.
Then and Now Take Two – Cabot Circus
Then and Now, but not alone – Cabot Circus
Then and Now Take Two – Cabot Circus Christmas Changes
Cabot Circus Christmas Changes
Going through some photographs recently I started to realise I had taken photographs of this view a lot more times than I thought I had.
This post outlines all the times I have taken this view (that I have found).
This photograph was taken not long after Cabot Circus had opened. The shopping centre had opened on 25th September 2008, this photograph was taken on the 21st October 2008.
Going through my collection I also had taken this similar photo on the 4th July 2016.
I took this photograph on December 8th 2019. I was on my way to do a pick up from the Vue Cinema, so I took a photograph of the festive Cabot Circus. I also wrote about it back then as well.
This newly found photograph shows the same view and was taken 19th November 2021.
Another newly found photograph of the same view, this from 9th July 2022.
This photograph was taken on the 26th November 2022.
This is a newly found photograph from the 10th December 2022.
So back to the top photograph, which was the most recent in April 2023.
Time to visit Cabot Circus again I think and take another photograph.
Update
So I did… This photo was taken in June 2023.
Then and Now Take Two – Cabot Circus
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.
Back at Cabot Circus this week (April 2023) I took this photograph.
I have taken photographs of this view before. This photograph was taken not long after Cabot Circus had opened. The shopping centre had opened on 25th September 2008, this photograph was taken on the 21st October 2008.
Going through my collection I also had taken this similar photo on the 4th July 2016.
I took this photograph on December 8th 2019. I was on my way to do a pick up from the Vue Cinema, so I took a photograph of the festive Cabot Circus. I also wrote about it back then as well.
This photograph was taken on the 26th November 2022.
It would appear others also like this view.
Walking down the Welsh Back
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.
Bristol Harbourside in the 1990s Part Seven
Back in the 1990s when I was teaching at a college in Bristol, I use to undertake regular field trips to the Bristol Harbourside as part of a unit on urban regeneration. There was at the time to much happening down there after years of inaction that it was an ideal place to demonstrate the impact of investment and change of use. Bristol had been an important port for hundreds of years, this all came to a halt in the 1970s and regeneration plans were developed. Not much happened for twenty years, but in the last twenty years we have seen major regeneration of the area, massive building of offices, business, residential and entertainment, as well as visitor attractions such as at-Bristol (where incidentally I worked for a while when it opened).
During one of those field trips, I took my SLR camera with me, and digging around a box in the garage I found some more prints, which I have since scanned in. This is a new post on these images, you can find part one, part two, part three, part four, part five and part six.
This is the car park next the Lloyds TSB building.
It has now been landscaped and is called Waterfront Square and is pedestrianised.
As I find and scan in more photos I will initially add them to this post.
Then and Now, but not alone – Cabot Circus
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.
In November I posted one in this series about Cabot Circus at Christmas time having taken a photograph in December 2019 and then intentionally took a similar photograph in November 2022. What I hadn’t remembered was that I had taken identical or similar photographs before. Going through my collection and some old Flickr albums I found two more photographs which I blogged about earlier.
What I did note, looking for the date of construction that, this view was popular with other photographers and the construction company as well.
This was the artist impression of the shopping centre, and as you can see that this is the same view as the photographs I took.
Here is the view of the construction of the centre.
Final preparations being undertaken prior to opening.
This is the opening day of the Cabot Circus centre.
So what about my photographs.
This photograph was taken not long after Cabot Circus had opened. The shopping centre had opened on 25th September 2008, this photograph was taken on the 21st October 2008.
Going through my collection I also had taken this similar photo on the 4th July 2016.
Three years later on December 8th 2019. I was on my way to do a pick up from the Vue Cinema, so I took a photograph of the festive Cabot Circus. Not realising I had taken similar photos before.
This photograph was taken on the 26th November 2022. I remembered I had taken a photograph in the same location, so took this one.
So I had unintentionally taken three photographs of roughly the same place over an eleven year period.
Back end of Christmas #365photos2022
The stage is set #365photos2022
