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Thursday doors – 8 June 2023

Doors 224 – Doors of Weston-super-Mare (2)

Obviously, I like to take pictures of doors, especially when I visit places that I don’t go to all that often, it becomes a bit of a habit to stop and look at a door that grabs my attention. It is difficult to know what constitutes a ‘good’ door and a door that is nothing out of the ordinary. I think this selection of doors from Weston-super-Mare on the north coat of Somerset sail quite close to the wind in terms of being ordinary, and being a little bit more interesting than that. I will let you be the judges of that, though.

I hope you enjoy this selection:

Double arches with doors - Wadham Street Garage, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023 — Double arches with doors – Wadham Street Garage, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023

Double door for a small business, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023

Green front door that looks like a garden gate, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023

Pink door with kick-plate, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023

Vibrant red door, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023

Black doors on the side of a restaurant, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023

A short one this week – a very busy work day ahead.

May I wish you a great rest of week and 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.

by Scooj

Lobe

A gallery of stylised portrait pieces by Lobe, an artist who used to live in Bristol where she painted regularly between 2019 and 2020.

Instagram: @lobe_ita

Lobe, Armada Place, Bristol, February 2020

Lobe, St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2019

Lobe, M32 cycle path, Bristol, November 2019

Lobe, M32 roundabout, Bristol, October 2019

Lobe, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, October 2019

Lobe, M32 roundabout, Bristol, September 2019

Lobe, M32 roundabout, Bristol, June 2019

Thursday doors – 1 June 2023

Doors 223 – Doors of Weston-super-Mare (1)

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 2023

Green doors of a certain period in need of some TLC, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023

Dirty plain door and a little bit of graffiti, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023

Steel doors, Weston-super-Mare, May 2023

More to come from this trip in due course. My I wish you a happy end of week.

by Scooj

Thursday doors – 25 May 2023

Doors 222 – Bristol street art and graffiti doors

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 2022

Taboo, Lower Ashley Road, Bristol, August 2022

Tanith 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.

By Scooj

Desi

A gallery of fabulous DESI and VEIL writing from Bristol artist Desi

Instagram: @cherrybombb20

all photographs by Scooj

Desi, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, March 2023

Desi, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, February 2023

Desi, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, January 2023

Desi, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, November 2022

Desi, Peel Street Green, Bristol, October 2022

Desi, M32 roundabout, Bristol, September 2022

Desi, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, August 2022

Desi, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, August 2022

Desi, M32 roundabout, Bristol, July 2022

Desi, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, March 2022

Desi, New Stadium Road, Bristol, March 2022

Desi, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, January 2022

Desi, River Avon, Bristol, November 2021

Desi, River Avon, Bristol, September 2021

Thursday doors – 18 May 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

Face 1st, Moon Street, Bristol, July 2022

Maybe, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, July 2022

Access hatch on a bridge

Cat ghost door

Abstract ghost door

Another abstract ghost door

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.

by Scooj

Thursday doors – 11 May 2023

Three green doors, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023

Doors 220 – Doors of Old Market, Bristol.

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 2023

Plain door, grand doorway, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023

Pub cellar doors, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023

Pub cellar doors and gates, Old Market, Bristol, May 2023

It 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.

by Scooj

5192. Various locations

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 2021

Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, February 2021

Slim Pickings (TES), M32 roundabout, Bristol, March 2021

Slim Pickings (TES), L Dub, Bristol, March 2021

Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, March 2021

Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, April 2021

Slim Pickings (TES), Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, June 2021

Slim Pickings (TES), M32 Cycle path, Bristol, June 2021

Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, July 2021

Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, August 2021

Slim Pickings (TES), Dean Lane, Bristol, December 2021

Thursday doors – 4 May 2023

Doors 219 – Doors of Fowey, Cornwall

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 2019

Short green door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019

Frosted door doorfie, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019

Grey door and granite step, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019

Grey door with no handles or furniture, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019

Door to the old police house, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019

Front door and stunning gate, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2019

That really is all for this week – wishing you a happy weekend.

by Scooj

Lee Roy

A gallery of fabulous graffiti writing from Bristol’s Lee Roy

Instagram: @leroyale191

All photographs by Scooj

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