Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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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 […]

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Urban art

I saw this in Bristol as we were walking away from Temple Meads Station. It just caught my eye and I though for a moment it was a rocking horse, and then because we were near the station, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1841 I thought maybe it was to do with either him or the […]

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Rain… and now the wind

For weeks we have been lashed by rain, and much of the country,our county of Somerset, the Thames valley, the Severn Valley,other areas of southern England are inundated, literally inundated. Farmers are having to move and even sell their livestock, their fields and pastures up to ten foot deep in filthy, polluted water; businesses are […]

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