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Folio Drive, BRISTOL, BS20 7FU

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.

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.

Much of the land to the left (east) of the drainage was untouched for many years, with the water stopping expansion of the old docks. However, it is now part of the large expansion of the town once the old heavy industries departed. A new bridge has brought the homeowners to the marina and also created a popular walking route.

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'.

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.

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

One of the two sites spanning Phoenix Way is an atrwork by Bristol-based artist Matt Stein. Both are named 'Elemental' and are crafted from stainless steel; this group is named ' Axis, Cascade and Air' and is on the south side of the road. See Image] for the other piece.

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.

A silvery metal block on the marina is a restaurant/bar. Outside on the balcony are some willowy creatures (badgers, perhaps?).