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The view looking north from Alfred Street, Windmill Hill, Bedminster in Bristol. Prominent on the horizon are Cabot Tower and the Wills Tower of Bristol University.
©Martin Clark
Taken from my office window you can see rooftops of East St. This building is currently being turned into luxury flats, hence the scaffolding. http://www.urbisdev.co.uk/html/developments_current2.php?id=66
©Jo Dickson
So-called as the old St John's church was at the end of the road. Thought to be the oldest church in the area (including the later Bristol) it was destroyed in the Blitz. A benchmark can be found on the gatepost of the red entrance to the left of shot - see [[[2768776]]].
©Neil Owen
A cut benchmark (as listed in the Benchmark Database: http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm41025 ) on the gatepost of premises off East Street. This one is actually listed as being on 121 East Street, although it's actually facing into Church Lane. See [[[2768780]]] for a wider view to put it in context.
©Neil Owen
The top of a narrow alley leading from the Robinson building down to East Street, with the Wills Memorial Building in the distance.
©Chris Heaton
©Steve Daniels
Site of a church from the 11th Century, the last one was bombed to a shell in WW2 and finally demolished in 1966. It is now a small park. The Cameron Balloon Works can be seen in the distance to the right of the picture.
©Chris Heaton
Soon to become yet more luxury flats. Cameron Balloons in foreground.
©Chris Heaton
Despite the recession of 2008 where people in the building trade are being made redundant at an alarming rate, there is still some Christmas spirit amongst the builders. This urban take on the Christmas tree has been constructed on a top corner of the Robinson Building, currently under refurbishment (see link, sans tree). The lights run along the scaffolding in both directions to make two trees. They do light it up at night because I checked :-). HAPPY CHRISTMAS! http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/811140
©Jo Dickson
A quiet Sunday morning.
©Chris Heaton
Dist:0.1km<br/>This is the old 'E.S. & A. Robinson's Paper-bag Makers' building currently being transformed into luxury flats (the 1 bedroom apartments are going for £130,000 plus). Comments I've heard after watching the websites virtual tour include "The insides look like a prison" and "There's as much storage space as a cake tin". In terms of history, the following was taken from the website: http://www.bafhs.org.uk/parishes/bedminster/bedminster.htm "The transformation of Bedminster was rapid and traumatic. The population jumped from 3,000 in 1801 to 78,000 in 1884, as people from depressed rural Somerset flocked to the new coalfields for work. Almost overnight Bedminster became a power-house of heavy industry manned by a huge workforce packed into high-density terraced housing. Coal mining and smelting generated other industries: engineering, tanneries, glue-works, paint factories, glassworks. In the 1880s, E.S. & A. Robinson's paper-bag business and W.D. & H.O. Wills' tobacco business moved to new factories. The development was too rapid to implement the kind of urban infrastructure necessary to prevent slum conditions. The authorities faced public health problems of monumental proportions. In the filthy courts and alleys, the cholera epidemics of 1830 and 1846 caused more fatalities than anywhere else in Bristol." The unwrapped flats can be seen in this great photo by Chris Heaton [[609834]]
©Jo Dickson
Dist:0.1km<br/>A few years have gone by since the brick walls had a different look, and an older name it seems.
©Neil Owen
Dist:0.1km<br/>Once the highly-visible E. S. and A. Robinsons paper products factory, the building has recently been converted to residential use. It still casts a large shadow over the older and smaller shops along East Street. See [[[609834]]], [[[609872]]] (Chris Heaton) and [[[903625]]], [[[811140]]] (Jo Dickson) for other views of the factory as it was redeveloped.
©Neil Owen
Dist:0.1km<br/>Another of East Street's many pubs that have changed. Originally the Nelson Hotel, it was locally more likely to be known as the Fussells - after a characterful landlord of the 1920's. Today it is still somewhere to get a pint, although the makeover has claimed the name.
©Neil Owen
Dist:0.1km<br/>A back lane leading from St.John's Road to East Street.
©Chris Heaton

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