Last weekend, Paul H and I took a trip to Weston-super-Mare to photograph some of the street art there, not least the impressive recent additions from the last three years thanks to Upfest’s involvement with the Weston Wallz initiative. We hadn’t even left the station when I spotted a surfeit of doors on a Network Rail maintenance wagon – this was going to be a good day.
Plenty of doors on this Network Rail rail grinder, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
Being a seaside town, many of the doors are in fairly poor condition, from all that salt spray in the winter months, so, plenty of characterful doors, but not many ancient ones. The doors were a bit of a bonus on what was actually a street/graffiti art mission, but Paul was very patient with me as I snapped up a few interesting doors. I hope you enjoy them:
Blue doors of a certain period, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023Green doors of a certain period in need of some TLC, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023Dirty plain door and a little bit of graffiti, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023Steel doors, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023
More to come from this trip in due course. My I wish you a happy end of week.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
I am definitely under the cosh at work at the moment, and simply haven’t had enough time to sort out Thursday doors, so for the second consecutive week I am serving up some street art doors from my archive – these ones were originally posted in August and September 2022.
Here we go:
Mote, M32 cycle path, Bristol, July 2022Zabou, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022Taker One, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022Taker One, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022Taboo, Lower Ashley Road, Bristol, August 2022Tanith Gould, Elton Street, Bristol, September 2022
OK, so you might have to search for the doors in these pictures, and in the last one the picture itself features a doorway, but it is the best I can do this week. I hope to collect some new doors this weekend.
Enjoy the rest of your week.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
Desi, M32 roundabout, Bristol, September 2025Desi, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, December 2025Desi, M32 Spot, Bristol, June 2025Desi, Greenway Bush Lane, Bristol, February 2025Desi, Greenbank, Bristol, February 2025Desi, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, January 2025Desi and Lupa, M32 roundabout, Bristol, January 2025Desi, Dean Lane, Bristol, November 2024Desi, River Avon, Bristol, August 2024Desi, Peel Street Green, Bristol, May 2024Desi, M32 Spot, Bristol, January 2023Desi, Frome Side, Bristol, November 2023Desi, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, November 2023Desi, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, October 2023Desi, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, October 2023Desi, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, August 2023Desi, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, March 2023Desi, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, February 2023Desi, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, February 2023Desi, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, January 2023Desi, Greenbank, Bristol, November 2022Desi, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, November 2022Desi, Peel Street Green, Bristol, October 2022Desi, M32 roundabout, Bristol, September 2022Desi, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, August 2022Desi, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, August 2022Desi, M32 roundabout, Bristol, July 2022Desi, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, March 2022Desi, New Stadium Road, Bristol, March 2022Desi, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, January 2022Desi, River Avon, Bristol, November 2021Desi, River Avon, Bristol, September 2021
Doors 221 – Bristol and Porto street art and graffiti doors
When I do these street art and graffiti doors, it usually signals that I am really busy at work, and don’t have time to do all the necessary admin to prepare doors to share, preferring to trawl existing pictures that I have posted on my blog under the street art category.
So let’s get straight to business with these doors from Bristol and Porto, which were originally posted on Natural Adventures in July 2022:
Jelly and apparan, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022
Doors painted during Upfest 2022
Aspire, Devon Road, Bristol, July 2022Face 1st, Moon Street, Bristol, July 2022Maybe, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, July 2022
Access hatch on a bridge
Maybe, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, July 2022
Access hatch on a bridge
Sepr, Upfest 22, Bristol, June 2022Mesk, Porto, Portugal, June 2022Costah, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Cat ghost door
Hazul, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Abstract ghost door
Hazul, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Another abstract ghost door
Carvalho, Porto, Portugal, June 2022Unknown, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
OK, so it’s not a door, but I just love this photograph.
Well, that’s it for another week. I hope you have a great weekend. Happy Thursday doors.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
I actually photographed these doors earlier this week, which is something I haven’t done for a while. More often, I tend to rifle through my archives to find a set of doors for posting on Thursdays.
Old market is a bit of a strange part of Bristol, caught between architectural periods and bordered by busy roads. It looks a little bit tatty these days, but at one time would have been a bustling market area, and some of the doors and doorways reflect this.
There are lots of pubs and places to eat or be entertained, but the volume of traffic has taken away any sense of community or cohesion – I guess it happens to many cities around the world I guess. Faded glory.
I hope you enjoy the doors – rather too many doorfies for my liking, though!
Black door/gate, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023Plain door, grand doorway, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023Pub cellar doors, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023Pub cellar doors and gates, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023It is the writing around the door that tells you something about a previous life of the building, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023
Well, that brings proceedings to a close for another week – may I wish you a very happy weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
Slim Pickings (TES), Cumberland Basin, Bristol, August 2021
I mentioned a few days back that In hadn’t posted anything like as many pieces by Slim Pickings (TES) as I should have done over the last few years, so I set out to remedy that by doing a trawl through my archives. This is what I came up with, and this is just for 2021, so I expect to do another of these mini-galleries for subsequent years.
Writing TES, Slim Pickings (the name of his Instagram account when I first encountered his work) maintains the exact same general form for his letters, tinkering at the edges with colour changes and some other playful additions. Here are the pieces I should have posted before:
Slim Pickings (TES) Brunel Way, Bristol, January 2021Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, February 2021Slim Pickings (TES), M32 roundabout, Bristol, March 2021Slim Pickings (TES), L Dub, Bristol, March 2021Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, March 2021Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, April 2021Slim Pickings (TES), Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, June 2021Slim Pickings (TES), M32 Cycle path, Bristol, June 2021Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, July 2021Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, August 2021Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, August 2021Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, December 2021
Phew! Today has been a bit of a beast, and I haven’t had any time to post my doors until now, and just as I had settled myself to write this post, my wife called to say she had a flat tyre and as I have just renewed the insurance, could I call out the breakdown recovery. All done now, and I can resume.
I have not photographed any doors recently, so this is a bit of a throwback to 2019 and some doors I encountered in Fowey in Cornwall, dredged from my doors archive. I hope you enjoy them. I have a favourite, I wonder if you can guess which one:
Blue door and anchor knocker, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019Short green door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019Frosted door doorfie, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019Grey door and granite step, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019Grey door with no handles or furniture, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019Door to the old police house, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019Front door and stunning gate, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019
That really is all for this week – wishing you a happy weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
Lee Roy, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, September 2023Lee Roy, M32 roundabout, Bristol, August 2023Lee Roy, M32 roundabout, Bristol, July 2023Lee Roy, M32 roundabout, Bristol, June 2023Lee Roy, Brunel Way, Bristol, June 2023Lee Roy and Waste, Brunel Way, Bristol, June 2023Lee Roy, Brunel Way, Bristol, May 2023Lee Roy, Dean Lane, Bristol, April 2023Lee Roy, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, May 2023Lee Roy, Brunel Way, Bristol, February 2023Lee Roy, Moon Street, Bristol, February 2023Lee Roy, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, February 2023
I am running a workshop in London today, so I prepared this post last night. All the doors in this post have previously been posted in my graffiti/street art category, but this is the first time for Thursday Doors. The doors were first posted in June 2022. Enjoy:
Irony, North Street, Bristol, June 2022
Painted by Irony during Upfest, Europe’s largest street art festival.
Taboo, North Street, Bristol, June 2022
Poor Mickey.
Zake, The Full Moon, Bristol, June 2022
Goin, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022
Felix Braun (FLX), Nelson Street, Bristol, June 2022
Oaktree, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Utility box door in Porto
Oaktree, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
Another utility box door in Porto
Vhils, Porto, Portugal, June 2022
So much street art to enjoy in Porto.
So there we have it for another week. May I wish you all a happy weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
Sliding doors at the front entrance, Bristol Zoo, Bristol, October 2018
Little did I know when I took these pictures in October 2018 that Bristol Zoological Gardens would close its doors for the last time on 3 September 2022. After 186 years as the world’s fifth-oldest zoo, the collection is being moved to a larger site on the northern edge of the city to its younger sibling, ‘The Wild Place’. For most Bristolians and indeed for many people living in the hinterland of the zoo, this was a very sad day indeed. Although some of the buildings in the site were old, Bristol zoo was progressive and was a leader in conservation and breeding programmes for endangered species from around the globe.
Whatever your feelings about zoos, they play a role in education and research that result in a greater good for the biodiversity of our planet. Taking myself as an example, it is certain that I was inspired by my countless visits as a child to the Zoological Society of London (London Zoo) to become a marine biologist, and spend the rest of my life working in the environmental/nature sector (doing good things, I hope).
So here are a few of the doors from the old Bristol Zoo. My only regret is that I didn’t take more photographs of this wonderful space. When the children were little, we had a family zoo membership, and it was our ‘go to’ destination, and the children’s favourite day out in the city.
Door within a door, Bristol Zoo maintenance gate, Bristol, October 2018
Ghost door, Bristol Zoo, Bristol, October 2018
In the butterfly house, Bristol Zoo, Bristol, October 2018
Reptile house doors, Bristol Zoo, Bristol, October 2018
Original aquarium entrance door, Bristol Zoo, Bristol, October 2018
Photograph of the original aquarium entrance door and keepers, Bristol Zoo, Bristol, October 2018
It makes me rather sad, reflecting on these pictures, but I guess we have to preserve our very many happy memories of the zoo, and keep our fingers crossed that the developers of the site retain some of the heritage and integrity of this stunning green space.
Well that’s it until next week, I wish you a very happy weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
