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Harbour Road Trading Estate, BRISTOL, BS20 7BL

Part of the new expansion of Portishead has brought N.H.S. services to the town.

Part of the Portishead Art Trail, this piece is 'Precious' by London-based artist Carol Peace.

Carol Peace is noted for her sculptures of people in sedate, comforting poses. She was commissioned to create a piece for the Ashlands estate of Portishead's expansion, and this piece is called 'Precious'.

With Portishead's flat and marshy hinterland now occupied by housing, the estate has a balancing pond to cope with excessive rainfall and flooding. However, it lies next to a children's play area, and has an electricity substation opposite. See Image] for the play space.

The business park and trading estate left of centre, and housing estates to the right, with the pier at the top.

As Portishead's old industries were pulled down and the land converted into residential expansion, the houses were separated by a play area. The old paper mill used to be close by near the docks: in the 1920s the Severn Kraft Mill was established to make specialist materials but had technical and legal problems right from the beginning. It lasted until the late 1930s and the site cleared. Developer Taylor Wimpey built the houses and opened this play area in February, 2019. See Image] for the neighbour.

Beneath this seep on the Port Marine site resides a shear at approximately 30 degree north and west when the storm drain, left of photograph, was firstly installed, then provided with a weir. Clay and silt under rubble and dust waste, now tree planted. How much of the interflow caused the ground for the slip and how much the slip and storm drain affect the interflow may provide the elderly foreman and the excavator driver who restored the slope with some hours of contemplation, in winter rain this being less of a hazard than in the deep mud and the slog through the works, alongside this steep main flood channel edge toward the Severn estuary.

This is a 2003 October photograph of the works Rhyne and storm drain. A small shear is behind the pipe, the large shear was north west of this.

Another View from the Interflow bridge zone, the opposite way, south of Port Marine, Portishead. Development, with a rail bridge to the right, or is it Conservation Ecology? Whatever, it is mostly waste beneath, over silt. These are fairly good bird sanctuaries.

Drainage off Clapton Moor runs under the road bridge; the town of Portishead was twinned with Den Dungen - a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant.