Chris Amies

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Living in the West of England. Photographs and also some art (watercolour or acrylic). No AI images. Photographs are made available under Creative Commons (Attribution) and are not for sale.
Bara lawr (laver bread), cockles and leeks.
The Shamrock, a pub on Cheltenham High Street. Formerly the Shakespeare. As Cheltenham's predominant Irish pub it will get very busy in the coming week (the peak of the horse racing calendar here).
The Nags Head, Cheltenham. A former pub at 441 High Street. Extant by 1863 and closed down in the 1970s, now residential.
The former Early Dawn pub, 408 High Street, Cheltenham (present numbering - when active as a pub it was no. 265). Extant in 1871, closed in 1923, for many years afterwards it was home to Tartaglia's Cotswold Ice Cream, and then a convenience store.
Cheltenham Synagogue was built to the designs of William Hill Knight who later designed the Montpellier Walk shopping precinct, and it was consecrated in 1839.
The Millennium Bridge and Christ Church, Cheltenham.
The bridge is on the Honeybourne Line, a rails-to-trails path through the town. Christ Church is about 800 metres away on Malvern Road
Number 9, in Bishops Cleeve. This does count as a pub, but every time I've used it, it has been as a cafe - during the day, coffee and sandwich, kind of thing. It's both, which I hope is the way forward for these places.
Ianto's Shrine - in Cardiff Bay, a memorial to the fictional character Ianto Jones from "Torchwood". Installed in 2009 and about to be dismantled.
The Old Elm Tree in Bishops Cleeve was rebuilt after a fire in 1894, and closed down in 1960. It became a youth centre and has had other uses since. It is now offices.
The former Bugatti Inn, Gretton, Gloucestershire. Originally known as the New Inn, presumably by comparison with the Royal Oak (a short distance outside the village), and the Crown which closed in 1926. The New Inn was renamed the Bugatti Inn in 1972 after the nearby Bugatti Hill Climb at Prescott. It closed down in 2017.
I have not been able to find out where the Crown pub was, and it is possible that the building no longer exists - much of Gretton is recently-built housing which may have replaced it.