Two or three times a week, enormous sea-going container ships go to and from the Portbury docks, on the Severn estuary, and pass by a headland near us. According to a plaque on a stone memorial to honour the lost seafarers of our Merchant Navy, this location was chosen as it is the closest land in the United Kingdom to ocean going ships. It certainly looks close. Passing vessels are compared, locally, with floating blocks of flats.

Portishead has a number of items of public art. One day I will try to photograph them all for a page here. However, for now, here’s a picture of the above-mentioned “block of flats” behind Jon Buck’s four-metre-high “Ship to Shore”.