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A busy junction where Kings Drive, Berkeley Road, Logan Road, Clare Avenue and Birchall Road all meet. The zebra crossing was recently installed, in the Spring of 2011.
©Colin Bews
Dist:0.1km<br/>The church foundation stone was laid on 14th July 1900 and the church was officially opened on 14th March 1901 by Bishop Brownlow.
©Linda Bailey
Dist:0.3km<br/>Just hidden on the right is the junction with Beauchamp Road. This is in Bishopston, a pleasant residential part of the city.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.3km<br/>Taken at the point where Linden Road becomes Cranbrook Road, with Upper Cranbrook Road on the left.
©Colin Bews
Dist:0.4km<br/>The school was founded in 1896. The main words read School Board for Horfield, and over each arch are the words Girls and Infants. The school is now in the buildings behind.
©Linda Bailey
Dist:0.4km<br/>Trinity United Reformed Church was closed several years ago and has now been converted to apartments. The traffic lights are situated at the junction of Cranbrook Road and Kersteman Road.
©Colin Bews
Dist:0.4km<br/>The brand new school building taken just before it opened in September 2007. The photo was taken from Logan Road and also shows some of the allotments behind Cranbrook Road.
©Colin Bews
Dist:0.5km<br/>The new secondary school off Redland Court Road, open to the public for the day.
©George Evans
Dist:0.5km<br/>Bishop Road School was opened in 1894 as a temporary school under the Horfield School Board. The Headmistress of the Girls and Infants section was Miss Morgan and 48 children, of whom 12 were girls and 36 were boys, started on the first day. Miss Morgan them after one month and she found that 15 of them did not know their alphabet. The building still has Infants and Girls carved in stone above two of the doors.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking down Clevedon Road with Horfield Prison walls on the left and Bishop Road school railings on the right.
©Linda Bailey
Dist:0.5km<br/>Part of the allotments which are located on steeply sloping ground behind Metford Road. Apartments at Alderman's Park can be seen at the top of the photo.
©Colin Bews
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking up Pig Sty Hill, on the Gloucester Road towards an approaching storm. This is taken from the junction with Somerville Road.
©Linda Bailey
Dist:0.5km<br/>This part of the Gloucester Road is known as Pig Sty Hill locally, I assume that there was a pig farm here in the 19th century. Seen just immediately before an enormous hail storm.
©Linda Bailey
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©tom
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is a large allotment behind Horfield Prison (grey roof). Looking east (Purdown mast can be seen on the skyline).
©Linda Bailey

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