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Dist:0.2km<br/>Knapps Lane, Fishponds Trading Estate, featuring a variety of industrial architectural styles. Of particular note is the arched building on the left. Although too small to be recognisable, The Dower House at Stoke Park is also in this shot - it's the yellow smudge at the left-hand end of the horizon. This shot was taken from the back of a lorry while unloading at one of the factories.
©Antony Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking approximately west from Brook Road. The mini roundabout leads east onto Speedwell Road and west onto Whitehall Road.
©A J Harris
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©Anthony O'Neil
Dist:0.4km<br/>A residential road between Whitefield Road and Speedwell Road.
©Maurice Pullin
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©Anthony O'Neil
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©Anthony O'Neil
Dist:0.6km<br/>A refurbished workhouse, previously a Tin House and Pottery, now an office.
©Victor Riordan
Dist:0.8km<br/>Looking west. Mostly residential here with a few small shops. The city centre is in view, a large block of flats dominates, the Wills Memorial Tower at the top of Park Street can be seen.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.8km<br/>Lunchtime photo in the park.
©Victor Riordan
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©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.8km<br/>Heading north east toward Fishponds and Downend. The corner shop with the yellow frontage is at the end of Ridgeway Road. The trees are London planes, planted around 1900. They lose their bark in patches each year, at one time it was an annual event for concerned persons to write letters to the local papers complaining of "vandals stripping the bark and why do the police do nothing about it." The following is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_plane "The London plane is very tolerant of atmospheric pollution and root compaction, and for this reason it is a popular urban roadside tree." and "The London Plane is a large deciduous tree growing to 20–35 m (exceptionally over 40 m) tall, with a trunk up to 3 m or more in circumference. The bark is usually pale grey-green, smooth and exfoliating, or buff-brown and not exfoliating. The leaves are thick and stiff-textured, broad, palmately lobed, superficially maple-like, the leaf blade 10–20 cm long and 12–25 cm broad, with a petiole 3–10 cm long. The young leaves in spring are coated with minute, fine, stiff hairs at first, but these wear off and by late summer the leaves are hairless or nearly so. The flowers are borne in one to three (most often two) dense spherical inflorescences on a pendulous stem, with male and female flowers on separate stems. The fruit matures in about 6 months, to 2–3 cm diameter, and comprises a dense spherical cluster of achenes with numerous stiff hairs which aid wind dispersal; the cluster breaks up slowly over the winter to release the numerous 2–3 mm seeds."
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.8km<br/>Looking west at the end of Drummond Road. A No.48 First Direct bus from Emersons Green and Downend heads toward Eastville and the city centre.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.8km<br/>In the part of Bristol called Ridgeway, on the A432 (Fishponds Road), looking WNW. The junction with the B4048 is next to the tall cream coloured building visible above the traffic island. The turning immediately on the right (at bottom of picture) is into Alcove Road at its western-most end.
©Colin S Pearson
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©Anthony O'Neil
Dist:0.8km<br/>Speedwell Fire Station, Speedwell Road, Bristol is station number 11 of Avon Fire & Rescue Service
©Kevin Hale

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