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Avon Valley Railway near Oldland Common
Fry's Somerdale 4w Sentinel No. 7492 and Hunslet 0-6-0ST Wimblebury double-head an Avon Valley Railway service for Oldland Common on the approach to its destination. On the right is the Bristol & Bath Railway Path.
Image: © Gareth James
Taken: 16 Sep 2023
0.05 miles
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2011 : Post Office, Oldland Common
And small supermarket#. On the A4175. The postman makes his collection.
# Isn't that an oxymoron?
Image: © Maurice Pullin
Taken: 17 Jan 2011
0.06 miles
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Cyclist on the Bristol & Bath Railway Path, Oldland
Seen from a train on the Avon Valley Railway. Both are heading south [locally south-west].
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 27 Mar 2016
0.07 miles
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2011 : A4175 High Street, Oldland Common
Heading north toward Bridge Yate.
Was part of Bristol's unofficial eastern bypass - for those in the know. Then the real one was opened about a mile nearer the centre of Bristol.
Image: © Maurice Pullin
Taken: 17 Jan 2011
0.07 miles
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Cottages, Oldland Common High Street
Image: © Gordon James
Taken: 22 Apr 2004
0.07 miles
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2011 : Castle Road, Oldland Common
Leads to a playing field and a footpath to the hill behind.
A post office stands on the corner.
Image: © Maurice Pullin
Taken: 17 Jan 2011
0.08 miles
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Avon Valley Railway near Oldland Common
Two Andrew Barclay 0-4-0DM locomotives - Nos. WD 824 / 70043 Grumpy and No. 70042 Overlord (visiting from Chatham Dockyard) - approach Oldland Common station on the Avon Valley Railway during the line's 1940s Weekend: Salute to Shunters event. These two locomotives had not been seen together for the past 70 years.
Image: © Gareth James
Taken: 16 Sep 2023
0.08 miles
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Oldland Common Station
Now used by the Avon Valley Railway - this is the end of the line.
Image: © Linda Bailey
Taken: 12 Aug 2006
0.09 miles
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Oldland Village Club
The village club building, now including bars and a skittle alley, was given to the village when it closed as a factory.
Image: © Gordon James
Taken: 5 Mar 2009
0.09 miles
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2011 : A4175 Oldland Common, heading south
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldland_Common says "Oldland Common was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. As was common in the surrounding area, the village was involved in the coal mining industry and had its own pit on Cowhorn Hill during the 1800s."
They also tell us "Oldland Common is the birthplace of the famous astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell, and is home to the Sir Bernard Lovell secondary school, a designated language college opened by Lovell himself in 1972, once attended by England cricketer Marcus Trescothick."
Image: © Maurice Pullin
Taken: 17 Jan 2011
0.09 miles