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Avondale Works, Woodland Way, BRISTOL, BS15 1PA

The stone built house left foreground was almost certainly made of local stone from quarries in Fishponds. The houses beyond are part of the Hillfields Park estate built during the 1920/30's by the local council. In the distance we look over South Gloucestershire in the area of Winterbourne and Coalpit Heath.

Cossham hospital

Well remember riding down this hill on the bar of my father's bicycle at the age of 8. Hillfields Avenue continues from the crossroads at the bottom of the hill.

Cossham Hospital is behind the camera position. The fence in the foreground protects an electricity sub-station. Part of the Hillfields Park housing estate, built in the 1920's/30's, is seen followed by factory chimneys in Fishponds. The fine building to the left is the Dower House in the former Duchess Park, now part of Frenchay Hospital I believe. You Bristolians, especially those living locally will be able to pick out more landmarks including the towers of the Severn Road Bridge taking the M48 from Aust to Beachley Image (the M4 crosses about 2 miles further down).

From Lodge Hill looking out across buildings of Bristol.

Near Chester Park, Bristol. This image fits loosely between Image to the left and Image to the right. The substantial fence in the foreground surrounds an electricity sub-station. The houses beyond are on Woodland Way. Further over stands the clock tower in the grounds of Blackberry Hill Hospital, formerly Bristol Mental Hospital, where some of the external scenes in "Casualty", a TV hospital series on BBC 1, were filmed. Now look a little higher on the screen and you will see, I hope, very faintly, what the authorities call the Second Severn Crossing taking the M4 from Redwick to Caldicot. (In fact it is the fifth Severn crossing, sixth at least if you go back to prehistoric times).

The B4048 continues to the right along Lodge Road. Passing the entrance to Cossham Hospital about 100 yards along. One of the houses facing is being re-tiled.

Seen from near the top of the hill with Lodge Causeway at the bottom running to Fishponds. The stone built houses on the right pre-date the housing estate, mistly brick, which was built in the 1920/30's. The most obvious item further over is the Post Office Tower standing on Pur Down Image The distant hills, faint on the horizon, are on the other side of the Bristol Channel. "Lodge Causeway is an ancient passage through the former Royal Forest of Kingswood and now the main road between Fishponds and Kingswood in Bristol, England. The Causeway led to Kingswood Lodge at the top of Lodge Hill, recorded in use since Saxon times when kings used the forest for hunting whilst resident at the palace at Pucklechurch, where King Edmund was murdered by an outlaw in 946. It passes through the Fishponds suburbs of Hillfields, Mayfield Park and Chester Park." The above was copied from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodge_Causeway

Thicket Avenue between Lodge Causeway and Staplehill Road.

On the corner of Lodge Hill and Woodlands Way, Kingswood.