Rubble wall, face to Gordon Road, Victoria Park, Bristol
Introduction
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Rubble wall, face to Gordon Road, Victoria Park, Bristol
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 25 Jun 2017
This is provisionally identified as Brandon Hill Stone. The wall is seen end-on in Image Brandon Hill is the steep hill on which the Cabot Tower stands, west of the city centre. The display in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery describes Brandon Hill Stone as "very hard well-cemented sandstones, usually reddish in colour … It is resistant to weathering and to wear. Uses: rough walling, because of difficulty in working it. Not considered a 'polite' stone and most often would have been rendered over. It can sometimes be seen in use as setts in roads." Houses faced with, say, Bath Stone may be seen whose side walls were of this eye-popping rough red stuff. "Sources: large quarries existed where the Berkeley Place and Trenchard Street multistorey car parks have been built."
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Image Location
Latitude
51.455822
Longitude
-2.61148