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Then and Now – Portishead Marina

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.

I took this photograph of Portishead in December 2025 using an iPhone 13.

Portishead Marina

Whilst writing about the coffee I had, I noted that I had taken this shot in April 2023 (also with an iPhone 13).

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RNLI Lifeboat at Portishead Marina

RNLI Lifeboat at Portishead Marina

Though I start my photo a day officially on Thursday, I thought I should start earlier to get into the habit of both taking a photograph and posting it online.

Every day during 2026 I am aiming to take a photograph and post it to Instagram and this blog. I have done a photo a day before in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2022 and 2024. I did try in 2018 but I had a few technical issues so stopped after a few weeks.

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Portishead Marina #50places2025

It was a wonderfully sunny day in February, so took the time to head to Portishead for a walk around the marina. Watching the yachts come through the lock. The weather was lovely, and we weren’t the only ones with the same idea. The marina was crowded with other people enjoying themselves, and the coffee places were packed.

After enjoying our walk around the marina we headed down the high street, where there are more places for coffee, and there were some free tables as well as they were less crowded. 

Really nice visit to Portishead.

Photographs from a previous visit to Portishead Marina.

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Portishead Marina

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.