Monthly Archives: December 2021

From the four (and seven-ninths!) of us on Christmas Day.

Much more interesting than it sounds, this exhibition, now in its tenth anniversary year, was open for the very first time outside London at The Royal Photographic Society, The Paintworks, Bristol.

Fifty or sixty Santa Clauses (or whatever the plural of Santa is – oh, of course, there isn’t one!) riding around Bristol’s Durdham Downs.

Not a frequent tourist destination, Avonmouth has been, since WWII, a huge, sprawling industrial estate, closely linked with with the docks, which were initially built two hundred years ago to overcome the problems with lager ships getting up the Avon … Continue reading →