Index of videos

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Investigating the (lack of) windmill on Windmill Hill, Bristol

2024-02-11
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The decoy Bristol on a Mendip hilltop made from light and fire

2024-01-28
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Somerset place names: poetry, history and etymology

2024-01-07
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Moving a river: Valencia's radical "Leap to Modernity" and the Gardens of the Turia

2023-12-10
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Shirehampton Remount Depot, and Bristol's new memorial to the horses of WW1

2023-10-08
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Mines, barrows and fogous: exploring the underground (pre)history of Penwith

2023-09-24
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Bristol's banana bridge - Bedminster's bright, beguiling bowstring bedevilled by bounded budgets

2023-09-09
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Tomorrow's landscape: Sylvia Crowe and the brutalist public spaces of the Cumberland Basin Road Scheme

2023-07-09
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Why Somerset's canals and disused railways (still) bristle with anti-tank defences: the Taunton Stop Line

2023-04-23
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Under the fish and over the water: Bradford-on-Avon's implausibly picturesque blind house

2023-04-09
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Flying kings and Rolling Stones: the eclectic story of John Wood the Elder and his Bristol Exchange

2023-03-26
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The Bengali Renaissance man buried in Bristol

2023-03-12
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The Tickenham Monkey Bridge rhyne disaster(s)

2023-02-26
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Erroneous nonsense in that video about Bristol Central Station

2023-02-12
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Why there's no Bristol Central Station: the failed Victorian schemes to replace Temple Meads

2023-01-26
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The fatal naphtha explosion at the Bathurst Basin, 21st Nov 1888

2023-01-07
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Christmas Steps - hospitals, almshouses and the accidental relevance of benevolence

2022-12-20
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The thriving community demolished for a road never built: Totterdown versus the Three Lamps Interchange

2022-12-07
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The 15th century Wiltshire woman who funded a footpath

2022-11-22
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I joined an ancient Bristol tradition - the St Mary Redcliffe Pipe Walk

2022-11-08
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The surprisingly important history of teazels

2022-10-19
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What happened to the minster in Bedminster?

2022-10-04
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Westbury White Horse: Legends of King Alfred & the Battle of Ethandun

2022-09-20
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(Not) Brunel's Bristol

2022-09-05
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Bristol's OTHER suspension bridges

2022-08-24
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Rubble & limestone - Bristol University's new library versus the fabric of the city

2022-06-09
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Slag, slimes and gruffy ground: a brief history of Mendip lead mining

2022-04-04
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Where exactly is the centre of Bristol, and how the hell did it end up next to a lake in Wiltshire?

2022-03-26
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Somerset's fives walls, and how medieval English church architecture inspired a sport which thrives in Nigeria

2022-01-04
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Redcliffe Shot Tower: a world-first in industrial history, demolished for a 60s road-widening scheme

2021-11-08
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The regeneration of Spike Island: unbuilt motorways & metro systems, and car-centric architecture

2021-10-10
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The Somerset Coal Canal, and the mildly terrifying world-first caisson lock

2021-08-29
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Bristol's colourful historic terraces, and their 21st century reinterpretations

2021-05-03
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Winford aqueducts and the Bristol Waterworks Company's "Line of Works" 1846-51

2021-04-15
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How Bristol's rivers shaped the city + vice versa: a brief summary of the last half a million years

2021-04-01
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Bristol Byzantine: the unusually Moorish and Venetian-flavoured Victorian industrial architecture

2021-03-17

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Pedestrian Diversions is a youtube channel exploring local history, places of interest, architecture, cool engineering projects, cartography, pedestrian-centric urbanism, and stuff like that.

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It has no publishing schedule; I make and release videos as often or as rarely as my interest, motivation and free time allow.

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