Passed White City Allotments on my way home yesterday. I knew it was named after the Bristol International Exhibition, but didn’t know the size of it. 12th Battalion the Glosters, I think, for scale. #bristol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_I… archives.bristol.gov.uk/records/43207/… archives.bristol.gov.uk/records/43207/… pic.twitter.com/cMvRLgykp2
@RikerGoogling This is realistic now, but only because the npm install could take until the 24th century.
@OnAmbridge Oh no! How on earth will I find out what happened in Ambridge this week? Don’t tell me I’m actually going to have to listen to the show itself?!
@paulwaugh I hear that MaRadoNA didn’t go down so well with the English football demographic during name-testing.
A disastrous lunch
Chopsticks slip in autumn sun
Soy sauce on @jeffnoon
#haiku #readingproblems
@KwatMDPhD @github @githubstatus I was just thinking that.
@KwatMDPhD @github @githubstatus Yup.
@psidnell Thanks!
@psidnell Blast from the past, but: a friend just asked about the door bottom right in this picture—did that connect up?pic.twitter.com/Qqq5UMMQADD
Portway postcard, including a view of the tennis courts. #bristol pic.twitter.com/4j2Jg8GnO0
@dduane I seem to remember this is basically what Terence M Green’s _Barking Dogs_ was about, albeit with more lasers and explosions.
@ememess “Oh! So *that’s* where he gets his ideas!”
“First, simply install nodeyarnwoolbombpm, the JavaScript package manager manager manager, which will transparently manage all the dependencies between your package manager managers, which in turn manage your chosen package managers…”
@uliwitness Crashplan? Mozy?
I’m reasonably sure that’s the right vent I’ve snapped, but not 100% certain. Also: (a) I would not like to have been a construction pony, and (b) “pony in a tunnel” sounds suspiciously like slang for something I probably wouldn’t want to do, or possibly eat.
Black Rock quarry, Portway. “…in 1950 an old shaft leading out to the face of the gorge was re-opened after having been blocked for many years. Originally it had been used as a stable for ponies employed in tunnel construction.” — Colin Maggs, _Bristol Port Railway & Pier_ 1975pic.twitter.com/r11069Rt9TT
@Dru_Marland Christ. People thought I was odd for commuting from Hotwells to Bristol Bridge on the boats!
@Dru_Marland Nice! If I had a time machine I’d definitely take a Campbell’s paddle steamer trip from the landing stage in Hotwells. Ilfracombe, maybe, or across to Wales.
@Dru_Marland Could well be. Portway opened 1926, and you can still see a tram running behind the bus, so pre-1941, I think. But I ain’t no historian!
Anyone care to take a guess as to when this was? I’m think not long after Portway construction. #bristol #postcard #history pic.twitter.com/P866ahZ9wN
@ahnlak I have already stocked up.
@ahnlak Well, so. Apparently I have “strong bones” and my teeth are “well attached”. Which on any other day might be a good thing, I suppose.
On the down side I’m about to undergo the most complex medical procedure of my life. On the up side, it’s only having two wisdom teeth pulled under a local. *crosses fingers* 🦷 🦷
@Lillput This is next to St Peter’s house at the bottom of Jacobs Well Road. If I’ve ever seen similar before I’ve forgotten…
Well, it’s possible, but I’m still not getting in his fridge. pic.twitter.com/rfrQt1AknK
@archidave @KYPBristol I feel it would be an excellent way of enforcing social distancing rules.
Commute//Morning/Evening #bristol pic.twitter.com/iH6lIwribn
@archidave @KYPBristol Yes, given the angle and the rise I’d expect to have been able to catch the train straight to work by stepping onto a platform adjacent to my shower. The people in the office would probably object, mind.
@archidave @KYPBristol Nice!
@KYPBristol @CSharp520917 From Colin Maggs’ book on the BPR pic.twitter.com/yBs1GoIxHh
@KYPBristol @CSharp520917 Yes; I’d’ve had to walk all the way to Hotwells Station, just past the Suspension Bridge, back in the day.
@maryrouncefield @KYPBristol Me too :)
@bravenewmalden Yes, and under, but my mum was a proofreader.
(I will now also, as happens every bloody time I find a reference to it, have The Doors’ _Love Street_ stuck in my head for many hours.)
You can also see that the end of Hotwell Road, between Holy Trinity and Dowry Parade, used to be called Love Street, something I knew but hadn’t found on a map before.
Amazing early plan for the Port Railway and Pier. The tunnel under Clifton would have emerged not far from where I live today in Hotwells, by the looks of it. Via @KYPBristol’s Community Layer #Bristol maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=b… pic.twitter.com/d0QPR2Ostm
Changed a bit. #bristol goo.gl/maps/Zty42BpuG… pic.twitter.com/Dztqspj5ts
NickHowes13 St Mary Redcliffe, best guess 1960, with the double track harbour railway diving under the churchyard..pic.twitter.com/EGzQrY74kAkA
Commute//Harbour Lights #bristol pic.twitter.com/Vw4sF3zwFb
@Bristolvor @EarlOfSidmouth Just invited for mine and the message said they’re using Pfizer for all boosters regardless of original vaccine shots.
Walcombe Slade pic.twitter.com/LyNjaiL7yK
“Another character was a driver nicknamed ‘Mad Jack’. He enjoyed scaring the dockers to death by rushing through the tunnels into Hotwells, once misjudging his braking power and crashing into the buffers.” Colin Maggs, _The Bristol Railway & Pier_, 1975. #bristol twitter.com/gothick/status…
One can only imagine that he is a Very Good Boi. pic.twitter.com/VwkySaBcPd
@CorkyBottle @stillawake Such is the amazing pace of technological advance in Clifton!
desdelboy Love Whitby ❤️ Love Goth 🖤 Weekend – in picturestheguardian.com/artanddesign/g…Epic.twitter.com/36nxqcJlKBKB
Then/now. 25 Royal York Crescent. Loxton drawing from Bristol Library collection via _Loxton’s Bristol_, Redcliffe Press, 1995 ISBN 1 872971 86 5. Photo by me, yesterday. flickr.com/photos/bristol… #bristol pic.twitter.com/Z2Xewj4sJQ
Postcard. #bristol pic.twitter.com/UxErZ5tsJR