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Dist:0.1km<br/>Gloucestershire playing Middlesex at their home ground - wearing traditional cricket clothing for this county championship match - unlike the "pyjamas" of the one day and Twenty20 games. See [[346383]]
©Ruth Sharville
Dist:0.1km<br/>Gloucestershire's cricket ground, located among college buildings and residential streets, close to the main A38 north out of Bristol.
©Ruth Sharville
Dist:0.1km<br/>The artist has a page on Flickr where other examples of his fine work can be seen. A word of caution: the comments on some of them are couched in street argot, which may offend those of us who lead sheltered lives http://www.flickr.com/photos/riks
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.1km<br/>Clearly done with the consent of the property owner, this work should not be confused with spray-can vandalism. The houses behind the wall are in Salthrop Road.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.1km<br/>A view along the northern side of [[689501]]. In the foreground is a western wing with a Venetian window. Built in 1870. "Cabot House was the fifth and last of the large barrack-type orphanage buildings to be built from 1847 to 1870 by the Prussian-born pastor and philanthropist George Muller." http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=469977&mode=adv See also [[689531]]. The buildings are on a grand scale; Cabot House alone is almost 200 metres in length.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.1km<br/>Cabot House is named after a famous Bristolian, John Cabot, an Italian-born explorer who sailed from Bristol to Newfoundland. These buildings once served as an institute for orphans. Many of the windows are placed high in the walls. It is said that the purpose of this was to prevent the children from being distracted. Nowadays these buildings serve a happier purpose, housing, amongst other courses, those designed to enable students to study to gain entrance Higher Education. See also: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689531 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689512 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689548
©Tom Jolliffe
Dist:0.1km<br/>Another building in the restored complex of buildings which originally served as an institute for orphans. The College has housed its Higher Education courses on this site. Major re-development is continuing on other parts of the campus. See also: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689548 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689501 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689531
©Tom Jolliffe
Dist:0.1km<br/>A man on a pushbike is about to turn left and disappear from view. The houses in the background are in Kennington Avenue.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.1km<br/>The avenue is fairly typical of housing in the more established parts of Bristol. It has two features that set it apart from similar roads: it backs onto a cricket club and I lived here for a while as a student.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.1km<br/>This part of the College, Davy House, is named after a famous Bristolian, Sir Humphry Davy, who discovered laughing gas and invented the miners' lamp. The portico is well proportioned and is part of a pleasing overall design. See also: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689531 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689512 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689501
©Tom Jolliffe
Dist:0.2km<br/>The College buildings were originally the Muller Orphanages founded and built by George Muller (b. 1805 at Kroppenstadt and died Bristol 1898). He settled in Bristol in 1832. It is reported that Muller's orphanages enabled over 120,000 children to be educated in the course of his life. He provided a Christian education and was involved in missionary work. This picture is another view of the restored buildings at Ashley Down, looking towards the entrance in the distance. See also: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689512 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689548 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/689501
©Tom Jolliffe
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©Andy Brown
Dist:0.3km<br/>"Brunel House was the second of 5 large barrack-type orphanage buildings to be built from 1847 to 1870 by the Prussian-born pastor and philanthropist George Muller" http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=469975&mode=adv It dates from 1857. See also [[1400815]]. For an account of George Muller's life, see http://www.about-bristol.co.uk/ash-01.asp . The complex, after conversion for Bristol College of Science and Technology, became part of City of Bristol College, and was called the Brunel Campus, now renamed the Ashley Down Campus. Two of the five huge blocks have been / are being converted to housing.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Methodist Church has relocated next door to the former church building which now houses the Bristol School of Gymnastics.
©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.4km<br/>Situated at a former Methodist Church and Hall in Gloucester Road, Bishopston.
©Eirian Evans

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