Purdown BT Tower, Bristol

Built in 1970, Purdown BT Tower on a hill near Bristol is a 70.1 metres (230 ft) tall telecommunications tower. Similar in function to the BT Tower in London, the structure was part of a point-to-point microwave communications network used from the late 1950s until the early 1980s.

Park Street and Wills Memorial Building, Bristol

Popular with shoppers, drinkers and clubbers alike, Park Street is unusual in running up a steep incline. The street was developed during the second half of the 18th Century but is now dominated by the massive Wills Memorial Building at its summit. Completed in 1925 and part of the University of Bristol complex, it is named for Henry Overton Wills III, first chancellor of the university and father of tobacco magnates George Albert and Henry Herbert Wills, whose donations funded its construction.



© Christopher Seddon 2008

Mauretania Public House, Bristol

Located at the foot of the steeply-inclined Park Street in Bristol, the Mauretania Public House is a Grade II listed building originally constructed in 1870. In 1938 a bar/restaurant complex was added, using fittings from the decommissioned liner RMS Mauretania. Although subsequently renamed Bar III the moving neon sign - the oldest in Bristol - remains, presenting an excellent representation of the legendary four-stacker that held the Atlantic Blue Riband for 22 years, during which time her only rival was her ill-fated sister ship, the Lusitania.





© Christopher Seddon 2008

The coloured houses of Bristol

Clinging to the hillside above Bristol in the exclusive suburb of Clifton are entire streets of houses painted in these attractive pastel shades.











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Signpost to the planets, Bristol

Standing ouside the Explore centre and Planetarium in Bristol, this structure is described as a signpost to the Solar System. Passers-by could use the touch screen to chose the Sun, Moon or a planet and the two arms on top of the device would point in the required direction and light up showing the current distance from Earth.



In 2006 the device was bang up to date, even indicating the newly-discovered "Tenth Planet". By the end of 2007, the Solar System had been reduced to just eight planets. The "Tenth Planet", by now known as Eris, had been refused planetary status and Pluto had been stripped of its. But the device had not been updated to reflect this.

In June 2008, it wasn't working at all.

© Christopher Seddon 2008

Clifton Suspension Bridge, late afternoon

Designed by the brilliant Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and not completed until five years after his death in 1859, Clifton Suspension Bridge is one of the most iconic bridges in the United kingdom. I took this photograph during the late afternoon of 4 November 2006.





© Christopher Seddon 2008