Roger Red Hat Posted November 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted November 16, 2022 Report Share Posted November 16, 2022 Great news that at least something in Bristol won't be changing. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lanterne Rouge Posted November 17, 2022 Report Share Posted November 17, 2022 5 hours ago, TomF said: There is a video of the bond buildings being blown up somewhere on YouTube. Remember watching it from the railway bridge It might be my memory playing tricks but I`m convinced we were at AG that day queuing up for tickets for something or other - the Walsall playoff maybe or a Freight Rover final - and heard the explosion on our way back down the A38. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted November 23, 2022 Report Share Posted November 23, 2022 Stolen from Facebook: Flying monsters………… Looking along St Augustine’s Reach towards the City Centre and the tower of St Stephen’s Church from a viewpoint next to the Watershed. ‘Then’ photo, taken on the 7th July 1932 and AI coloured and first posted on another Bristol FB group by Nick Howes, shows the huge German airship, the Graf Zeppelin, flying over Bristol. At almost 800ft long it truly was a monster in the skies. My father who was seven at the time can remember seeing this, in his words, ‘huge silver sausage gliding slowly and silently over the city’. The Graf Zeppelin toured around the UK and flew over most of our major cities and we later found out that the airship was actually photographing Britain’s dock installations and infrastructure, the photos of which were to prove very useful to the Luftwaffe in the Blitz of the Second World War. ‘Now’ photo, taken by me a few days ago, shows the same scene some 90 or so years later in modern times. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Erithacus Posted November 27, 2022 Report Share Posted November 27, 2022 Great shot, thanks to a drone. I did try to go up the bridge on a similar foggy day last year or so but ended up wandering around the Clannage and Cumberland Basin instead. Always thought it would be a good time to be there when the mists rolled underneath. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Roger Red Hat Posted November 29, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2022 https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/proposals-33-storey-tower-castle-park-assault-on-bristol/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Erithacus Posted November 29, 2022 Report Share Posted November 29, 2022 The thought often crosses my mind: in a century or so will the people look at our twenty-first century architecture and revere it in the way we revere the nineteenth and eighteenth? Then I wake up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erithacus Posted November 29, 2022 Report Share Posted November 29, 2022 On 27/11/2022 at 11:49, Erithacus said: Always thought it would be a good time to be there when the mists rolled underneath. A bit too foggy today: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted November 29, 2022 Report Share Posted November 29, 2022 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Erithacus said: The thought often crosses my mind: in a century or so will the people look at our twenty-first century architecture and revere it in the way we revere the nineteenth and eighteenth? Then I wake up. They almost certainly will, people are already loving the 60s concrete monstrosities. https://www.ft.com/content/92ba942c-5ac9-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2 Things like the Eiffel Tower were hated when they were first built. It's impossible to tell at the time what people will like in a generation or two. Edited November 29, 2022 by BS2 Red Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 16 hours ago, BS2 Red said: They almost certainly will, people are already loving the 60s concrete monstrosities. https://www.ft.com/content/92ba942c-5ac9-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2 Things like the Eiffel Tower were hated when they were first built. It's impossible to tell at the time what people will like in a generation or two. Good point. Some Brutalist buildings are really nice. The South Bank complex for example is somewhere I really loved when I lived in the capital. Imposing, weird, other-worldly, host to some fantastic events and markets, plus a decent detour for a quick short prior to facing the hell that was Waterloo. The then-Prince Charles might've hated it, but here was what the area looked like before. Utter bobbins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLionLad Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 Anyone interested in old photos of Bristol with todays same view should look at or join The Bristol Then and Now Photographs Facebook group. Thousands of comparison photographs as well as information and personal stories associated with the images. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted December 1, 2022 Report Share Posted December 1, 2022 On 30/11/2022 at 09:31, Red-Robbo said: Good point. Some Brutalist buildings are really nice. The South Bank complex for example is somewhere I really loved when I lived in the capital. Imposing, weird, other-worldly, host to some fantastic events and markets, plus a decent detour for a quick short prior to facing the hell that was Waterloo. The then-Prince Charles might've hated it, but here was what the area looked like before. Utter bobbins. Those cars though....... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RedLionLad Posted December 5, 2022 Report Share Posted December 5, 2022 Then and Now : Ashton Gate Stadium c2000 and 2033 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziderarmy Posted December 5, 2022 Report Share Posted December 5, 2022 35 minutes ago, RedLionLad said: Then and Now : Ashton Gate Stadium c2000 and 2033 You a time traveler? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted December 5, 2022 Report Share Posted December 5, 2022 27 minutes ago, Pearsonistheman said: You a time traveler? That`s actually an artist`s impression of the new fruit market stadium................................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLionLad Posted December 5, 2022 Report Share Posted December 5, 2022 (edited) 34 minutes ago, Pearsonistheman said: You a time traveler? Big fingers, small phone Edited December 5, 2022 by RedLionLad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebristolred Posted December 5, 2022 Report Share Posted December 5, 2022 Someone actually posted these fantastic shots on Facebook the other day, ones I'd not seen before either. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CyderInACan Posted December 8, 2022 Report Share Posted December 8, 2022 On 05/12/2022 at 20:47, nebristolred said: Someone actually posted these fantastic shots on Facebook the other day, ones I'd not seen before either. When was that top photo taken? I don't remember that semi-circular concrete area in the park behind the open end? (bottom left of the pic) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebristolred Posted December 8, 2022 Report Share Posted December 8, 2022 8 minutes ago, CyderInACan said: When was that top photo taken? I don't remember that semi-circular concrete area in the park behind the open end? (bottom left of the pic) Not sure, I’m sure someone else can be more accurate, but I’m going to guess around 1991? Based on the open end still being there, but the East End being sheeted in red. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted December 8, 2022 Report Share Posted December 8, 2022 7 hours ago, CyderInACan said: When was that top photo taken? I don't remember that semi-circular concrete area in the park behind the open end? (bottom left of the pic) 7 hours ago, nebristolred said: Not sure, I’m sure someone else can be more accurate, but I’m going to guess around 1991? Based on the open end still being there, but the East End being sheeted in red. I think (IIRC from a previous thread) it was part of the old lido that used to be there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exAtyeoMax Posted December 8, 2022 Report Share Posted December 8, 2022 12 hours ago, CyderInACan said: When was that top photo taken? I don't remember that semi-circular concrete area in the park behind the open end? (bottom left of the pic) I don't know what it is. The lido is top left, I think. This is from 1946 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erithacus Posted December 8, 2022 Report Share Posted December 8, 2022 (edited) Beat me to it, exAM! The lido was towards the western side of Greville Smyth park, close to the modern A370 runs today. I've marked up a map from the very same Know Your Place website: the City ground in red, the park in green and the lido in blue, viewed roughly in the same direction as the aerial photo: The park has had many phases when it was planted, then paved over and back again over the years. Edited December 8, 2022 by Erithacus typo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exAtyeoMax Posted December 8, 2022 Report Share Posted December 8, 2022 3 minutes ago, Erithacus said: Beat me to it, exAM! The lido was towards the western side of Greville Smyth park, close to the modern A370 runs today. I've marked up a map from the very same Know Your Place website: the City ground in red, the park in green and the lido in blue. viewed rougly in the same direction as the aerial photo: The park has had many phases when it was planted, then paved over and back again over the years. Know Your place is a fabulous website! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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