scaffolding

Over the past couple of years I've had the pleasure of exploring the rooftops of a few of the University of Bristol's beautiful buildings. Due to the extensive grounds, and the fact that quite a few of the buildings are relatively old, there is often scaffolding up at one point or another to...

This statue of Queen Anne was sculpted by Frances Bird and Sir Christopher Wren, back in 1712. This statue was enveiled on 7th July 1713 at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Ludgate Hill, London. However, moved in 1881 to the current location next to the Conquest Hospital. This is a grade 2 listed...

Wellington Monument,Somerset First off, this is hardly an epic. It's more in here in case anyone else wants to go and have a poke before it the scaffolding goes or they alarm it etc etc. Anyone who has driven down the M5 and paid attention to their surroundings may have noticed a small...

No idea why I didn't report on this before - probably because it wasn't all that exciting, but there were some decent views of the Mitchell Library, so here you go :) This scaffolding was next to the M8, on the ex-MoD pink building, and was remarkably easy to do - harder to do on a Saturday...

Visited with chiroptera and Teapot We'd been eyeing up a couple of sites for a while before finally getting round to doing them. Things went fairly smoothly, which was nice after our rather anticlimactic trip to Aberdeen. [1] We started with some scaffolding with a nice view over a...

Something completely new to me, which didn't go down well whilst I was there. My first climb of something that isn't a fence! As far as I know, this is the first report of it (unless Xan beats me to it...) THE INFO The viaduct around the Mersey tunnel approach in Birkenhead is being built...

After spotting scaffolding on Blackpool Tower, myself and DocP agreed it had to be climbed. We gathered up the balls to do it, and up we went. Ok it's not the full job to the top, but we went as high as we could with the ladders etc. We got up to the top floor of proper scaffolding (where the...