Bristol

Places by LoisMarch 3, 2015March 3, 2015

Revising Bristol graffiti

I shall be in Bristol tonight, Bristol the home of Banksy the now world-famous graffiti artist… Blue lady The Queen by Banksy? or just a copy? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9310201/Banksy-draws-the-Queen-as-Ziggy-Stardust.html

Bristol Byzantine

Places by LoisJanuary 31, 2015February 13, 2022

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 19, 2015

Caught sight of this beauty in Clifton, Bristol… for years we have visited the city and tried to find the well-known and lovely area of the city and until yesterday it eluded us… but hurrah, we found Clifton!

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 18, 2015

The Flower of Bristol

I’m sure many people have heard of the Flower of Scotland, but I’m not sure many people apart from Bristol folk have heard of the Flower of Bristol; it is our nearest big city and we have visited it dozens and dozens of times over the years but we didn’t know it had its own […]

Places by LoisDecember 28, 2014

Old and older, or not so old and oldish

I’ve taken a few photos of old things juxtaposed against modern… here we have an old crane beside an old ship… except the ship isn’t as old as the crane… it is a 1997 replica of the Matthew, in which John Cabot sailed to Newfoundland, five hundred years ago. The crane, one of four was […]

Old and new

Places by LoisNovember 10, 2014

Places by LoisNovember 6, 2014

Elegant Bristol… and its other side

Walking from Temple Meads, that magnificent palace of a railway station built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel I saw this beautiful building. Isn’t it graceful, isn’t it well proportioned? I have no idea what it was in a former life but I guess the large gated entrance on the right was the way horse-drawn vehicles entered, probably into […]

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 2, 2014

Upstairs… or downstairs?

I saw this ugly metal fire-escape bolted onto the side of what might have been an elegant nineteenth century building except for the metal boxes bolted to the side which I guess are something to do with air conditioning or central heating or ducts for something or another… Oh and there are grills over the windows […]