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Taken from the northern end of Birchwood Road.
The block of flats is on the other side of the River Avon in St. George.

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.2km<br/>Fish and chips this end, general store the other, but the fitness centre in the middle, is that double entendre or what?

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.2km<br/>At the north end of Birchwood Road with a unisex hair salon on one side and an off licence with a video library on the other.

Bristol

©Maurice Pullin

Dist:0.2km<br/>Seen from the southern end of Birchwood Road.
St. Anne's Park Road leads down to the Brislington Brook and St. Anne's Wood, a nature and leisure area created along the brook.

©Maurice Pullin

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©Martyn Pattison

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©Pete Yeates

Dist:0.4km<br/>The pub is still there but this steam engine has been taken for private preservation. It is a C Isler steam driven compressor from Crew's Hole, Tar Distillery. This distillery was commenced by I K Brunel in 1843 to produce a preservative for the GWR sleepers. It was latterly owned by British Steel Corporation and closed in 1981. The quayside village also shown in this square is on the site of the works.

©Chris Allen

Dist:0.4km<br/>Downwind of Bristol, this area was long home to noxious chemical industries. The housing development on the right bank is the former site of the Crew's Hole Tar Works.

©Pierre Terre

Dist:0.4km<br/>On the left bank below the rowing club.

©Pierre Terre

Dist:0.4km<br/>Boathouse and sluice, looking downstream by BARC boathouse

©Pierre Terre

Dist:0.4km<br/>Converted church

©Kyle Thompson

Dist:0.4km<br/>Remains of Crew's Hole industrial past

©Kyle Thompson

Dist:0.4km<br/>Now a quiet stretch of riverbank used by walkers and cyclists but a century and more ago a scene of intense industrial activity. For example, where new housing stands on the eastern bank below Trooper's Hill, there was a large tar distillery which produced preservatives for the wooden sleepers used by Brunel's Great Western Railway and later became a major chemical works.

©Anthony O'Neil

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©Philip Halling

Dist:0.5km<br/>Red sandstone is exposed near the railway tunnel entrance.

©Vieve Forward

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