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Rob Acton-Campbell
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Trustee for Your Park & St George CA. Committee member Friends of Troopers Hill. Love East Bristol.
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Saw the new artwork in #Bristol Centre this morning - I like it. Looks better than the old fountains and makes it a usable space.
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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July last year. Plenty of time to enjoy the views, following another boat that was following canoes
View along the Aqueduct towpath, with the side and roof of a narrowboat to the left, canoes in the water in the distance
August 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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#Bristol #Balloon #Bluesky
June 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Large shaggy bee, Panurgus banksianus, #TroopersHill #Bristol 2nd June.
#insectweek #insectThurday
June 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Comma, Polygonia c-album, on a fence post by the River Avon, #Bristol last week
#insectweek #insectthursday
June 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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#Bristol #Balloon #TroopersHill #Thatchers
Very low pass, it was climbing here.
June 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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#OTD 30 years ago, 22 June 1995, #TroopersHill in #Bristol was declared as a Local Nature Reserve.
www.troopers-hill.org.uk/intro.htm
June 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Temporary priority signs, but otherwise complete.
June 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Crews Hole Road, #Bristol closed for 2 weeks from today for work to make it safer for pedestrians to cross at 2 locations.
Tempory red & yellow signs indicating road closure at road junction. Tree lined Crews Hole Road behind.
June 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Just caught up with the fact that having had a new bus service (No 16) from St George to Temple Meads (well Avon Street which is near enough) for 2 months it is now diverted away from the station until April 2026 because Avon St is closed!
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June 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Troopers Hill chimney reflected in the Mirror Box earlier today.
People coming out were visibly moved by Lizzy's - @hopefullizzy.bsky.social - message.
Next Ashton Court, then Glastonbury Tor.
www.iwouldbehereificould.com/mirrorbox-jo...
June 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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A view of the Mirror Box on Troopers Hill, it is there until late afternoon today (Sunday 1st). Inside, listen to a very moving message from @hopefullizzy.bsky.social
More about the project at
www.iwouldbehereificould.com
A box with mirrored sides (the size of a phone box) on Troopers Hill with the leaning chimney standing in front of the grey clouds. People are standing waiting to go into the box.
June 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Wonderful to see this on Troopers Hill today. Fantastic project.
June 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Interesting to see the figures for #Bristol Redland is the highest.

Link to map is in @theguardian.com report.
Map of Bristol area with darker shading showing more wood burning stoves per square km. Same map as other image with text box showing figures for Redland of 425.4 wood burning heat sources per square km, equals 19.1% of houses.
April 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Will be interesting to compare with BCC mapping, which also includes the tree species if you click on them
maps.bristol.gov.uk/pinpoint/?se...
April 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Bull Inn, Crew's Hole Road #Bristol Pub closed a couple of years ago, no surprise to see a planning application:
Demolition of existing building and erection of a new block of apartment comprising 9 dwellings (6 x 2 bedroom flats and 3 x 1 bedroom flats)
www.gov.uk/guidance/sec...
Brick built pub with bay windows. Picnic benches in fenced area in front. Two notable chimneys. Drawing of proposed replacement building. Three story, three sets of bay windows two entrances. Nibletts Hill slopes up at the left.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Good to see the Emra family of St George #Bristol featured in today's Bristol Times insert in the @bristolpost.co.uk
You can read more about the Emra family on the Troopers Hill website
www.troopers-hill.org.uk/emra/
March 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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New to the Friends of Troopers Hill website photos - the aftermath of an incident at the Tar Works in Crews Hole #Bristol in the 1970s.
'The driver did escape with no injuries, the windscreen popped out as the tanker sank and he swam out through the hole!'
www.troopers-hill.org.uk/oldphotos/Ta...
Road tanker, with a yellow cab, upside down, being lifted out of the River Avon by a red crane. Wooded side of the Avon Valley behind. Three people watching on the right in front of the crane. River surface at the left.
February 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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E VIII R post box in Crofts End #Bristol for #postboxSaturday
Opposite Gillian's Café which does an excellent full English breakfast.
E VIII R post box next to a chain link fence with ivy growing on it.
February 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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So you can see that it was a big area. I've highlighted it here, on old & modern maps. There was a stone path that ran across the ends of the gardens of the new houses and then down the length of the garden of the last house.
February 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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This is me in our garden age 2, with Gowan Bank in the background.
February 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Do entries for #FingerpostFriday actually need to have a post?
This is on a stone wall in lanes north-east of #Bristol.
Stones on a roadside wall surrounded by ivy in winter. Stones painted white with black writing and images of hands pointing to give directions. 'Upton' to the left. 'Beach' to the right, 'Cold Ashton' in smaller font at the top pointing behind the photographer.
February 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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My favourite photo of the day, our excellent mulching team.
Three young children & leader with a wheelbarrow full of mulch in Troopers Hill Field. Truck behind.
January 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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This wonderful poem by Elizabeth Emra of St George, was published in the 1830 edition of the literary annual, Forget-Me-Not, appearing on page 168.
#Spring #Snowdrops #Bristol
www.troopers-hill.org.uk/emra
Text of poem on a background photo of snowdrops in flower: The Snowdrop’s Call, By Miss Elizabeth Emra Who else is coming?— There’s sunshine here! Ye would strew the way for the infant year : The frost-winds blow on the barren hill, And icicles hang in the quarry still ; But sunny, and shelter’d, and safe, are we, In the moss at the foot of the sycamore tree. Are ye not coming? the first birds sing ; They call to her bowers the lingering Spring ; And, afar to his home near the north pole-star, Old Winter is gone in his snow-cloud car ; And the storms are past, and the sky is clear, And we are alone, sweet sisters! here. Will ye not follow? Ye safe shall be In the green moss under the sycamore tree. And, oh! there is health in the clear cold breeze, And a sound of joy in the leafless trees ; And the sun is pale, yet his pleasant gleam : Has waken’d the earth, and unchain’d the stream ; And the soft west-wind, oh, it gently blows ! Hasten to follow, pale lady Primrose ! And Hyacinth graceful, and Crocus gay, For we have not met this many a day. Follow us, follow us! follow us then, All ye whose home is in grove or glen. Why do ye linger? Who else is coming, Now Spring is awaked with the wild bees’ humming ?
January 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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#OTD 21st Dec in 1809 Frances "Fanny" Emra was born in St George, #Bristol. Frances was the youngest daughter of Rev John Emra, Vicar of St George and his wife Elizabeth. Frances is buried at Westbury-on-Trym.
www.troopers-hill.org.uk/emra/
Portrait drawing of Frances Emra, probably by one of her sisters, or possibly her father. Frances Emra's grave with cross in churchyard with the tower of Holy Trinity, Westbury-on-Trym behind to the right, a tree to the left Close up of the grave of Frances Emra, showing the wording: Here rests in peace Frances Emra Daughter of Rev John Emra of the Island of St Christopher, WI and Vicar of St George's. Born Dec 21st 1809 Intered into rest March 20th 1888 She hath done what she could To me to live is Christ and to die is Cain
December 21, 2024 at 9:13 AM