CLEVEDON -Somerset UK

Clevedon Pier

Promanade

The Restored Pier

Our Family Plate

Clevedon Beach View

Clevedon is situated just along the coast, near to Bristol in somerset.

It is a Victorian town and has hardly changed since then, when you compare old photographs from that period to current views. The pier was restored in recent years after a fund was set up. One idea was to buy a brass name plate , which was then fixed to the planks on the pier. Our family bought one in the 80's and it is still there today. We usually polish it when we visit! (Photo above).

Clevedon holds many happy memories to me personally, as my Sister and her husband used to live there and so we had a lot of visits over the 80's & 90's, before they moved to Torquay.

There is a nice walk along the cliff side called "poets walk", named after the poet "Tennyson" who once lived in the town. Clevedon is quite close to another seaside town called Weston-Super-Mare, which is more commercial and so gets far more holiday makers. Clevedon is more sedate in comparrison, but suits me more and has a relaxed atmosphere I find. I've lost count how often I have made visits over the years, but if i'm close by i'll always stop there. There are a few gift shops and cafes on the front and a small town centre close by.

OXFORD Visit

My first visit to the city of the "Dreaming Spires" and one I found very interesting too.
Wandering around the streets you cannot help but think of programmes such as "Inspector Morse" as Oxford was the location for that series, together with the current "Lewis" detective series, it was easy to see how such a city inspires a writer such as Colin Dexter to make it come alive in that way. Although I did not witness any murders or crimes, it was still a wonderful place to get so many photographs. Almost every view was a potential photo. Very much like Cambridge, but possibly more "built up" was my impression.
I love the honey coloured buildings of oxfordshire and indeed into the cotswolds too.
Maybe it is the character of the individual buildings which I like, as opposed to the usual city centres we often see today, which have no style and in most cases you could literally be stood in the same place, as they look so similar. So to visit a city like Oxford is often like a breath of fresh air in terms of "scenic architecture".