By Chris Guy posted on 22 Apr 2017 in Urban

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

Sewage pumping station owned by Wessex Water

Sewage pumping station

Graffiti on the rear of the sewage pumping station

Scrubland

Scrubland adjacent to the motorway

Underpass

What’s going on here?

Nothing to see here

Nothing to see here

Beneath the motorway

Beneath the motorway

M5 / M49 Intersection

M5 / M49 Intersection

Lawrence Weston Solar Farm

Lawrence Weston Solar Farm

Inviting

Inviting

Pathway to nowhere

Pathway to nowhere

Industrial Installation

Industrial Installation

Pylon and spring blossom

Pylon and spring blossom

M49 Flyover

M49 Flyover

Sewage Pumping Station

Sewage Pumping Station

Cycleway Entrance

Cycleway Entrance

Small Red Car

Small Red Car

Wind Turbines and Hill

Wind Turbines and Hill

Intersection with traffic lights

Intersection with traffic lights

Submerged Postbox

Submerged Postbox

Shaddick Tyres

Shaddick Tyres


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