Cliftonwood - BS8
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The photograph on this page of Cliftonwood - BS8 by David Hallam-Jones as part of the Geograph project.
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Cliftonwood - BS8
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 1 Aug 2012
The view down Ambrose Road with the junction of Argyle Place behind the photographer.Visitors to any part of the strip of land sandwiched between the southern side of the Floating Harbour and the "New Cut" (i.e. the River Avon) inevitably find their eyes drawn upwards to the very dominant rows of brightly painted houses hugging the lower slopes of Cliftonwood like a multi-coloured knecklace. This picture of the front elevations of those "chocolate box-lid" houses lining Ambrose Road 'proves' that the colours don't simply appear on the rear elevations of each house - to impress tourists visiting the Floating Harbour area - but that the colours can equally surprise and impress observers seeing them from other perspectives too. Whether on dull days or bright sunny days these houses seem to radiate an clearly inferred joie de vivre.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.450499
Longitude
-2.615007