A trip out to the tip (or Household Waste Recycling Centre, to give it its proper title) at Avonmouth was enough to arouse my interest at the surreal no man’s land that surrounds the Kings Weston Lane site.
This is where the M49 and M5 motorways intersect, it is also home to the Lawrence Weston Solar Farm, numerous wind turbines, the St Anthony’s Park traveller site and a Sewage Pumping Station owned by Wessex Water. All in all it is a strange non-place and one that I wanted to explore further. So a couple of days later I jumped on my bike and headed over there, this is what I found…
Sewage pumping station owned by Wessex Water
Graffiti on the rear of the sewage pumping station
Scrubland adjacent to the motorway
What’s going on here?
Nothing to see here
Beneath the motorway
M5 / M49 Intersection
Lawrence Weston Solar Farm
Inviting
Pathway to nowhere
Industrial Installation
Pylon and spring blossom
M49 Flyover
Sewage Pumping Station
Cycleway Entrance
Small Red Car
Wind Turbines and Hill
Intersection with traffic lights
Submerged Postbox
Shaddick Tyres