By Chris Guy posted on 19 Feb 2017 in Urban
Holiday Inn Express hotel on a quiet urban street, six storeys, leafless trees and empty roads beneath an overcast sky.

The Brutalist Temple Gate House opposite the train station

Temple Gate – the area around Bristol Temple Meads station – is changing. It is being redeveloped as part of the Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone project. I’m relatively new to this city but it seems like this regeneration is both welcome and long overdue.

There are currently a lot of empty and derelict buildings in the immediate vicinity of the station and to see these put back into use can only be good news.

There is also Temple Gate House – a 1960s (at a guess) brutalist office block / hotel building directly opposite the station which I have been keen to get a decent shot of for a while. So this morning I headed out early with my camera to capture some of the area before it all changes.

Dusk city roundabout with light trails from passing cars, illuminated traffic lights and modern buildings under a deep blue sky, bare trees silhouetted against the horizon.

Temple Circus Giratory at first light

Multi-storey building draped in blue scaffolding mesh beside a large orange billboard stating "The transfer window is still open", under a grey sky.

Transfer Window, Bristol Temple Meads

Empty curved city road beside a building wrapped in scaffolding and a large Ford car billboard, flanked by modern office blocks under an overcast sky.

The old George & Railway Hotel, covered and awaiting renovation.

A lone figure in a red hoodie walks along a stone pavement towards Bristol Temple Meads Station in the early morning.

Station Approach – Bristol Temple Meads

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