Doors 116 – Some random Bristol doors from lock down walks
I have taken a day off work today and so am able to spend a little bit of time sorting out some new doors for you. This is a selection of doors from all around North Bristol from the long dog walks I took during the lock down days.
I am constantly reminded of what strange times we live in that we have developed a whole new language around the coronavirus epidemic, and that we will reference world history in terms of pre-Covid and post-Covid. I find it all very unsettling.
Anyhow – on to the doors. I hope you enjoy them.
Back yard gate, Montpelier, Bristol, May 2020Back yard gate, Montpelier, Bristol, May 2020Back yard gate with graffiti, Montpelier, Bristol, May 2020Back yard gate with graffiti, Montpelier, Bristol, May 2020Front door in blue, Montpelier, Bristol, May 2020A smart front door with boot scraper, Montpelier, Bristol, May 2020
So, that’ll be it for another week. I expect I’ll revert to my graffiti door archive next week, but we’ll have to wait and see. Take care wherever you are and have a great weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you really ought to take a 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.
Doors 112 – Back to some archive street/graffiti art doors
Another extraordinarily busy week for me, and limited time to pull together new doors, so it is another retrospective of street art doors (one or two of which have been seen before on Thursday doors) this week. Here goes, this selection were first published on Natural Adventures in 2017:
Skor85, Moon Street, Bristol, January 2017N4T4, North Street, Bristol, September 2015Banksy, Bristol Museum, Bristol, May 2014
This world famous Banksy piece called ‘mobile lovers’ was in the Bristol Museum for a short while before being returned to the Broad Plain Boys’ Club on whose door it had been painted. They sold the door to a private collector for £403,000 which alleviated the financial problems they were having. It was what Banksy had intended.
Thursday door. North Street, Bedminster, BristolDrew Copus, Stokes Croft, Bristol, May 2016Door, Freeman Alley, New YorkMy Dog Sighs and Snub23, Upfest, Bristol, July 2017
There is a door hidden in the middle of this piece.
Alex Lucas, North Street, Bristol, October 2017Irony, Camden Town, London, November 2017Nomad Clan, Upfest, Bristol, July 2017Ian Phenna, Upfest, Bristol, July 2017
Another rush through a slightly more international selection there which I hope you enjoyed. Have a great weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you really ought to take a 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.
Doors 107 – even more archive street/graffiti art doors.
You know the drill. Even though I have been out and about a bit and have photographed quite a few doors lately, I haven’t yet had time to upload them on to my PC – so until such time as I get myself a little bit more organised, you might have top make do with yet another seelection of doors from my street art archive.
I am pleased to note that readers apppear to have enjoyed these galleries when I have posted them, which gives me the courage to continue with them when I need to.
These ones were photographed from September 2015 through to December 2016.
Rob Wass, Raleigh Road, Bristol, September 2015
The pictures above and below are the same wall painted for two different Upfest events.
Karl Read, Raleigh Road, Upfest, Bristol, July 2016Unify, Hoxton Square, London, August 2016Stik, Grimsby Street, London, August 2016DNT? Wolseley Road, Bristol, February 2016Sokar Uno, Upfest, Bristol, July 2016Alex Lucas, York Road, Bristol, December 2016Thierry Noir, Rivington Street, London, August 2016
So that just about wraps it up for another week, I hope you have enjoyed these doors. I hope I can back to some more contemporary photographs next week, we’ll just have to see how that goes.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you really ought to take a 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.
Lock down due to the Covid-19 pandemic is in place in the UK, and looks set to continue for at least another three weeks. This means that doorscursions are limited to rifling through my archive or photographing doors within walking distance of my home. Today’s offering is a bit of a mix of the two.
I was going to do a theme of multiple-doored buildings, but gave up on that very quickly. Instead this is just a small random selection of Bristol doors.
Multiple workshop doors, Frogmore Street, Bristol, July 2019Shop door, Anchor Road, Bristol, November 2019Large metal doors, Baldwin Street, Bristol, December 2019Multiple doors, Gibson Road, Bristol, March 2020
Work is super-busy at the moment, so I’m afraid this post is a little light this week. Hope I have time to do a few next week.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you ought to take a 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.
In some of the older commercial buildings in the city there are cellars, and the quickest access to these cellars was from the roadside via doors that opened directly onto the pavement. Perhaps we are most familiar with these cellar doors outside pubs, where the barrels of beer are still delivered through them.
This is just a little selection of these doors, and another little door thrown in for good measure… a little extra if you like.
Here we go:
Cellar doors with the addition of a metal strip and a tag by tagger Pi who seems to have tagged every street in Bristol, November 2019
This first door is the same one as the feature image, photographed a few months afterwards. Spot the difference?
When old meets new cellar doors, Bristol, December 2019No getting away from ‘street furniture’. Cellar doors nicely keyed-in with the stone pavement, Bristol, December 2019Cellar doors including pavement doors for deliveries, Bristol, December 2019Heavy-duty cellar doors, Bristol, July 2019Old wooden and less old metal cellar doors, Bristol, December 2019Old and probably no longer used cellar doors, Bristol, December 2019
And finally a little bonus door, with the emphasis on little.
Small door to under stairs store, Bristol, December 2019
So my friendly doorsters, that’s it for another week. Have a great weekend whatever you get up to.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you ought to take a 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.
Last weekend we made a trip across the Severn Estuary to see some friends who recently moved to Wales. This was our first visit, and I am sure not our last. After lunch we went for a walk along the southern bank of Llangorse Lake and, of course, I managed to turn the whole thing into a bit of a doorscursion. I hope you enjoy these doors as much as I did.
Side door, St Gastyn’s Church, Llangorse Lake, Wales, December 2019Outer door, St Gastyn’s Church, Llangorse Lake, Wales, December 2019Ornate door surround, St Gastyn’s Church, Llangorse Lake, Wales, December 2019Abandoned farmhouse doors, Llangorse Lake, Wales, December 2019Abandoned farm barn door, Llangorse Lake, Wales, December 2019Abandoned farm house out building door, Llangorse Lake, Wales, December 2019Entrance door, Prince of Wales bird hide, Llangorse Lake, Wales, December 2019Reedbeds, Prince of Wales bird hide, Llangorse Lake, Wales, December 2019
Next week I will probably do a round up of my favourite doors of 2019, but until then, I wish you all a fabulous week.
In the meantime, you might like to take a 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.
Following on from last week’s trip to Lanhydrock House in Cornwall, this time I’ll share with you some of doors from the inside of this magnificent building.
The house dates back to the 17th century, but much of it caught fire in 1881 and following repairs at that time most of the interior furnishings including the doors are Victorian.
Entrance hall doors with etched windows, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, August 2019
In true aristocratic Victorian style, there are a lot of dead (stuffed) animals in the house – trophies from colonialhunting trips.
Doors and trophy, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, August 2019
Food was a big deal in this house and the meals prepared in the kitchens were kept warm in this cabinet before being served in the dining room .
This cast iron cabinet kept the food warm between the kitchens and dining room, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, August 2019
We had a kitchen towel like this when I was growing up.
One of several kitchen doors, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, August 2019The bread oven, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, August 2019Dairy door, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, August 2019Upstairs door, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, August 2019Canes – a time gone by thank goodness, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, August 2019
Hmmm – there were several of these cane ‘trophies’ hanging in this room, along with plenty of dead animals – the Empire built on a bloody good caning in the headmaster’s office
Coridoor door, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, August 2019Screen-separated drawing room, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, August 2019
The drawing room was an altogether beautiful room which was broken down into sections with screens, but was actually vast.
The long gallery, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, August 2019
Finally the tour of the house takes you to the stunning long gallery with its 17th century ceiling. This wing of the house was the only one that survived the fire of 1881.
So that wraps it up for another week or so. Enjoy what’s left of the week and have a lovely weekend.
Please go take a 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.
A real rush to get these doors out – 10 minutes between finishing work and going off to play 5-a-side football… so not much of a story here, simply some more doors from a trip to Dorset some three weeks ago.
Door, Dorchester, June 2019Door, Dorchester, June 2019Door, Dorchester, June 2019Door, Dorchester, June 2019
Sorry for rushing it, but nothing gets between me and my weekly football. Please go take a 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.
Happy 4 July to all those for whom it is a holiday. Here in the UK it is just another day, but it is Thursday, and that means doors.
I am being a little lazy this week using archive material to bring you the same door in Moon Street, one of my favourite street/graffiti art spots, but with different looks over the last few years – I might do this with a few more graffiti doors when I am pushed for new content.
With apologies to regulars who might have seen most of these images before.
Face 1st, Moon Street, Bristol, May 2019Panskaribas, Moon Street, Bristol, March 2019Run Z, Moon Street, Bristol, January 2019Laic217, Moon Street, Bristol, August 2018Laic217, Moon Street, Bristol, June 2018Coloquix, Moon Street, Bristol, August 2016Laic217, Moon Street, Bristol, February 2017
That just about wraps it up for this week, maybe some more Dorchester doors next time. Please go take a 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.
I went to a meeting in Dorchester last week and had quite a lot of time to kill either side of the meeting and my train journeys. I have never been to the town before, so there was an obvious doorscursion opportunity, and what an appropriately named place for such a thing.
The town left me a little puzzled. Compared to Bristol it is a rather sleepy and sedate place although both share an extraordinary history and abominable post-war architecture. The most striking thing was the abundance of retirees as a proportion of the total population. Maybe this was an artifact of the time of day I was visiting, I don’t know.
Because of its Roman heritage I had imagined ancient doors all over the place, but instead there was a curious mix of old, new, weird and beautiful doors. You’ll be glad to hear there were no graffiti doors in Dorchester.
Here we go:
Dorset museum. Shame about the hoarding and door in front of the door. Dorchester, June 2019Shop door, Dorchester, June 2019Rather old and redundant? Shop door, Dorchester, June 2019Charming blue door, Dorchester, June 2019Pair of doors – I particularly like the worn step, Dorchester, June 2019This dwelling is appropriately named ‘Lilliput House’, the door was about 5ft 6 and I would have struggled to get in. Dorchester, June 2019
So there we have it for another week – there will be more from Dorchester in due course. Meanwhile why not go and check out 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.
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