Paul 🏳️🌈🚂🏛️🌳📚📸
@grumbrela.bsky.social
Bristolian Oxfordian with Welsh leanings, Coffee obsessive, Reader of tomes and constant photographer. My views not my employers.
Nutshell Bridge and House on the Stroudwater Navigation.
The grade II listed bridge and house were built in 1778 over and adjacent to the Stroudwater Navigation. The Canal was designed to link the River Severn to Stroud for the passage of coal to power the Stroud Valley textile mills.
The grade II listed bridge and house were built in 1778 over and adjacent to the Stroudwater Navigation. The Canal was designed to link the River Severn to Stroud for the passage of coal to power the Stroud Valley textile mills.
January 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Nutshell Bridge and House on the Stroudwater Navigation.
The grade II listed bridge and house were built in 1778 over and adjacent to the Stroudwater Navigation. The Canal was designed to link the River Severn to Stroud for the passage of coal to power the Stroud Valley textile mills.
The grade II listed bridge and house were built in 1778 over and adjacent to the Stroudwater Navigation. The Canal was designed to link the River Severn to Stroud for the passage of coal to power the Stroud Valley textile mills.
“ I remember when
I remember, I remember when I lost my mind, There was something so pleasant about that place, Even your emotions have an echo in so much space…” GB
📍Paddington #Railway Station, #London
#railways #FridayVibes
I remember, I remember when I lost my mind, There was something so pleasant about that place, Even your emotions have an echo in so much space…” GB
📍Paddington #Railway Station, #London
#railways #FridayVibes
January 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“ I remember when
I remember, I remember when I lost my mind, There was something so pleasant about that place, Even your emotions have an echo in so much space…” GB
📍Paddington #Railway Station, #London
#railways #FridayVibes
I remember, I remember when I lost my mind, There was something so pleasant about that place, Even your emotions have an echo in so much space…” GB
📍Paddington #Railway Station, #London
#railways #FridayVibes
January 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“ Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits & are melted… into thin air: & like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces… & like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.”
#Shakespeare
📍St Pancras
#Shakespeare
📍St Pancras
January 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“ Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits & are melted… into thin air: & like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces… & like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.”
#Shakespeare
📍St Pancras
#Shakespeare
📍St Pancras
“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.” #AgathaChristie
📍St Pancras International #Railway Station, #London
📍St Pancras International #Railway Station, #London
January 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.” #AgathaChristie
📍St Pancras International #Railway Station, #London
📍St Pancras International #Railway Station, #London
Times past ~ 1L48 09:28 #Swansea to London Paddington prepares for departure. The set arrived as 1C01 the first Paddington to Swansea service that ran via Box changing ends at Bristol Temple Meads before continuing towards South Wales.
#railways #throwback
#railways #throwback
December 29, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Times past ~ 1L48 09:28 #Swansea to London Paddington prepares for departure. The set arrived as 1C01 the first Paddington to Swansea service that ran via Box changing ends at Bristol Temple Meads before continuing towards South Wales.
#railways #throwback
#railways #throwback
“ What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.” Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
📍Dyrham Park, near Bath, South #Gloucestershire
📍Dyrham Park, near Bath, South #Gloucestershire
December 29, 2024 at 2:03 PM
“ What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.” Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
📍Dyrham Park, near Bath, South #Gloucestershire
📍Dyrham Park, near Bath, South #Gloucestershire
December 25, 2024 at 11:09 PM
“ Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation…” Nunc dimittis
📍#Gloucester Cathedral
#architecture #history #cathedrals
📍#Gloucester Cathedral
#architecture #history #cathedrals
December 23, 2024 at 4:48 PM
“ Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation…” Nunc dimittis
📍#Gloucester Cathedral
#architecture #history #cathedrals
📍#Gloucester Cathedral
#architecture #history #cathedrals
“ So what do you say? You can't give me the dreams that are mine anyway
You're half the world away
Half the world away…” #Oasis
#Roylefamily
You're half the world away
Half the world away…” #Oasis
#Roylefamily
December 21, 2024 at 10:13 PM
“ So what do you say? You can't give me the dreams that are mine anyway
You're half the world away
Half the world away…” #Oasis
#Roylefamily
You're half the world away
Half the world away…” #Oasis
#Roylefamily
“ There is something about passing #trains that fills me with awe and excitement. All those passengers, with mysterious lives and mysterious destinations, are people I want to know, people whose mysteries I want to unfold...” Ruskin Bond, The Great #Train Journey
📍Teignmouth, #Devon
#railways
📍Teignmouth, #Devon
#railways
December 21, 2024 at 2:04 PM
“ Billow and breeze, islands and seas
Mountains of rain and sun
All that was good, all that was fair
All that was me is gone…”
📍Carbost, Isle of Skye, #Scotland
#travel #landscapes
Mountains of rain and sun
All that was good, all that was fair
All that was me is gone…”
📍Carbost, Isle of Skye, #Scotland
#travel #landscapes
December 21, 2024 at 11:56 AM
“ Billow and breeze, islands and seas
Mountains of rain and sun
All that was good, all that was fair
All that was me is gone…”
📍Carbost, Isle of Skye, #Scotland
#travel #landscapes
Mountains of rain and sun
All that was good, all that was fair
All that was me is gone…”
📍Carbost, Isle of Skye, #Scotland
#travel #landscapes
December 20, 2024 at 7:46 PM
“ Tell me tomorrow
I’ll wait by the window for you…” #stephenfretwell
📍#Cardiff Central #Railway Station, #Wales
I’ll wait by the window for you…” #stephenfretwell
📍#Cardiff Central #Railway Station, #Wales
December 20, 2024 at 3:36 PM
“ Tell me tomorrow
I’ll wait by the window for you…” #stephenfretwell
📍#Cardiff Central #Railway Station, #Wales
I’ll wait by the window for you…” #stephenfretwell
📍#Cardiff Central #Railway Station, #Wales
“ But I had no way of knowing
And I don’t know where I’m going
But I’m movin’ on…” #bananarama
📍#Cardiff Central #Railway Station, #Wales
And I don’t know where I’m going
But I’m movin’ on…” #bananarama
📍#Cardiff Central #Railway Station, #Wales
December 20, 2024 at 12:35 AM
“ But I had no way of knowing
And I don’t know where I’m going
But I’m movin’ on…” #bananarama
📍#Cardiff Central #Railway Station, #Wales
And I don’t know where I’m going
But I’m movin’ on…” #bananarama
📍#Cardiff Central #Railway Station, #Wales
December 18, 2024 at 9:11 PM
“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.” – WB Yeats
📍Christ Church College, #Oxford
#history #architecture
📍Christ Church College, #Oxford
#history #architecture
December 18, 2024 at 6:37 PM
“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.” – WB Yeats
📍Christ Church College, #Oxford
#history #architecture
📍Christ Church College, #Oxford
#history #architecture
December 18, 2024 at 5:55 PM
