Walker on path by River Avon running through Bristol, viewed from Castle Park.
Tag Archives: Bristol
Electric
Neoclassical façade of former late 19th-century electricity generating station, St Philip’s Bridge, Bristol.
Geometry
Late 19th-century statue of Edmund Burke, late 18th-century Anglo-Irish MP for Bristol, with 21st-century geometric mobile. City centre, Bristol.
Throughway
Corn Street, Bristol, one of the four main thoroughfares of the old city.
Jacobean
Decorative details on a Jacobean tomb in St Stephen’s church, Bristol.
Frog
Undercroft of a Georgian terrace off Park Street, Bristol, with street art.
Down
Steps by St Philip’s Bridge, Bristol, leading down to the River Avon.
Potty
In 2009 the artist Banksy (who was born in Bristol) ‘took over’ Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and overnight transformed it by installing – or substituting – artworks which were culturally or politically subversive, such as his Paint Pot Angel (which remains on permanent exhibition in the building’s entrance hall).
Rust
Rusty railings and rampant fuschia in a Downend garden near Bristol.
Guardian
A final view of the bouquet-bearing angel sculpture against the backdrop of Christchurch, Downend. Built in 1831 as a Chapel of Ease to the church at Mangotsfield, East Bristol, it became a Parish Church in 1874. The last of three views of this particular sculpture.
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