Doors 75 – A walk along the River Avon cycle path.
Last Sunday was Father’s Day, and I took the opportunity to be a little self-indulgent and go off on a street art hunt to parts of Bristol city I haven’t been to before. I think that wandering around aimlessly, whether in an urban or rural setting is one of my favourite things. No plan, no map, no directions, just looking around and exploring keeping my eyes open and spotting things that might interest me.
This type of exploring is best done alone, because it involves a lot of side tracks and doubling back which could prove tiresome for any companions.
I decided to drop down onto a cycle path which runs alongside the River Avon (literally river river… Avon is derived from a word abon which means river or Afon in Welsh). The cycle path is sandwiched between the river and the backs of buildings on an industrial estate. On the opposite bank is the Paintworks, which is a reconstructed industrial estate full of rather fancy industrial/business units. The cycle path side is definitely the less salubrious of the banks.
I found a fair amount of graffiti, most of it just tagging, and an awful lot of industrial unit fire escape doors, none of which looked like they had been used in years. I share those doors with you now. I don’t expect a lot of love for these doors, but they are doors, I saw them and feel it is only fair to post them.
there was a bit of a contrast with the opposite bank, which had rather a wide margin of brackish plants spreading down onto the mud (the tide was out), and hosted a fair amount of wildlife including these Canada geese.
So that is another week of doors gone by, maybe soon I’ll find some rather more attractive doors to post, but don’t bank on it.
If you’d like to see more doors take a good look at the Norm 2.0 blog – the originator of Thursday Doors where there are links to yet more doors in the comments section at the end.
by Scooj
Always good to get out and about amongst it all . . .
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I think I recognize one of those geese 😀
Kidding aside this was a great idea for a doorscursion. That first yellow one really pops.
We have a similar bike path that runs along an old waterway canal system. Lots of old industrial buildings line both shores…hmm, me thinks I need to get on my bike and go for a ride.
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It was a strange contrast, the natural river bordered by a harsh urban frontier. Neither conceding to the other.
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Sounds like you enjoyed Father’s day. Just curious if you tote around a camera or just use your phone to snap the photos?
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I have a small compact zoom camera, a Sony I think. Phone pictures are a real bore to download.
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I’ve experienced the opposite of your findings. Hmm.
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I have never got on with iTunes or whatever it is.
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We don’t have much graffiti around here, or I just haven’t seen much, so I’m always impressed by the artwork like on your doors. I like the overgrown fire door and big flower! 🙂
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Thanks. We have more than our fair share of graffiti and street art, but I am not complaining.
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It is indeed enjoyable to romp around without a plan and see what you see! And, you found doors with lots of character and stories to tell (if they could). Love the geese!
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Thank you. Glad you liked the geese.
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I just love this set.
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Thank you, graffiti doors are not to everyone’s taste.
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I guess one could say the same about various sub-genres; one could have too many church doors, for example.
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I guess that’s true.
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“…but they are doors, I saw them and feel it is only fair to post them”
Bahaha, that’s exactly how it is. If they didn’t wish to be posted, they shouldn’t be doors.
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