Pedestrian Diversions
Exploring local history, places of interest, architecture, cool engineering projects, cartography, pedestrian-centric urbanism, and stuff like that, as my interest/motivation allows.
Based in Bristol and the West Country, although I reserve the right to make videos about places elsewhere if I ever get myself organised enough to travel.
The (lack of) windmill on Windmill Hill, Bristol
The decoy Bristol on a Mendip hilltop made from light and fire
Somerset place names: poetry, history and etymology
Перемещение реки: радикальный «скачок в современность» Валенсии и сады Турии
Shirehampton Remount Depot, and Bristol's new memorial to the horses of WW1
Mines, barrows and fogous: exploring the underground (pre)history of Penwith
Bristol's banana bridge - Bedminster's bright, beguiling bowstring bedevilled by bounded budgets
Tomorrow's landscape: Sylvia Crowe + the brutalist public spaces of the Cumberland Basin Road Scheme
Why Somerset's canals and railways (still) bristle with anti-tank defences: the Taunton Stop Line
'Under the fish and over the water': Bradford-on-Avon's implausibly picturesque blind house
Flying kings and Rolling Stones: the eclectic story of John Wood the Elder and his Bristol Exchange
The Bengali Renaissance man buried in Bristol
The Tickenham Monkey Bridge rhyne disaster(s)
Erroneous nonsense in that video about Bristol Central Station
Why there's no Bristol Central Station: the failed Victorian schemes to replace Temple Meads
The tragic naphtha explosion at the Bathurst Basin, 21st November 1888
Рождественские ступени — больницы, богадельни и случайная уместность благотворительности
The thriving community demolished for a road never built: Totterdown vs the Three Lamps Interchange
The 15th century Wiltshire woman who funded a footpath - Maud Heath's Causeway
I joined an ancient Bristol tradition - the St Mary Redcliffe Pipe Walk
Удивительно важная история ворсянки
What happened to the minster in Bedminster?
«Белая лошадь из Вестбери: легенды об Альфреде Великом и битве при Этандуне»
(Not) Brunel's Bristol
Bristol's OTHER suspension bridges
Rubble & limestone: Bristol University's new library versus the fabric of the city
Шлак, шлам и грязная земля: краткая история добычи свинца в Мендипе
How did the centre of Bristol end up next to a lake in Wiltshire?
Somerset's fives walls, and how medieval English churchyards inspired a sport that's big in Nigeria
Redcliffe Shot Tower: a world-first in industrial history, demolished for a 60s road-widening scheme