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Cotham Road, BRISTOL, BS6 6DW

A reverse view of Image and Image

Also shown in Image, and subject to a new set of graffiti. The letterbox is numbered BS6 297.

A surviving Victorian letterbox set into a wall along Cotham Road. Unusually for Bristol, it was made by B. P. Walker's Eagle Foundry of Birmingham.

On Cotham Brow, at the junction with Cotham Park; listed by English Heritage: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=379428&mode=adv

This trio of houses with fancy gables are divided into flats. "An unusual picturesque silhouette to a standard attached house plan" https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207757 .

A road at the junction with Cotham Road South.

The obelisks marked the entrance to Cotham Park, "developed by Francis and Richard Fry on the land of Cotham Lodge [after it was] demolished, 1846." They are listed Grade II: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207692 Eight-thirty on a sunny morning – everyone's going to work. I was waiting for a bus to take me to the summer meet and AGM of Geograph Project Limited in the city centre. A display in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery explains: "A pair of obelisks made of White Lias [limestone] with the upper surface of Cotham Marble used as naturally 'vermiculated' blocking. Many weathered blocks have had to be replaced with carved vermiculation." A closer look at Cotham Marble is Image "White and Blue Lias Limestone The muddy limestones from the top of the Triassic beds and bottom of the Jurassic are generally only used locally, on the outcrop – Horfield, Knowle, Cotham, Keynsham. Many of the beds tend not to weather well."

The obelisk is one of a pair, listed grade II. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207692 Compare Mike Faherty's Image – in three years the northern obelisk of the pair has become obscured by a sycamore seedling. A display in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery explains: "A pair of obelisks made of White Lias [limestone] with the upper surface of Cotham Marble used as naturally 'vermiculated' blocking. Many weathered blocks have had to be replaced with carved vermiculation." A closer look at Cotham Marble is Image The obelisks marked the entrance to Cotham Park, "developed by Francis and Richard Fry on the land of Cotham Lodge [after it was] demolished, 1846." "White and Blue Lias Limestone The muddy limestones from the top of the Triassic beds and bottom of the Jurassic are generally only used locally, on the outcrop – Horfield, Knowle, Cotham, Keynsham. Many of the beds tend not to weather well."

Just by the entrance is a boundary stone - see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6134408 for a closer look.

On Cotham Road. The Tudor Revival house, also visible in Image] and Image], has "3 irregular sections, each stepping slightly forward of that to the left", the central gable has "round Tudor finials with diagonal patterning" https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207750 , which has more detail.