A view from the tethered balloon, looking toward Bristol Bridge, with the then Courage (once George’s) Brewery in the left corner. To the middle left is the DRG Head Office (once the Robinson Building) built in 1963, and one of Bristol’s earliest high-rise office blocks, consisting of fourteen floors plus the foyer. Immediately to the right of the roof can be seen the Granary, a much-loved Victorian edifice, which now serves as a night-club, with offices over. To the right corner of this view can be seen the tower of St. Mary-le-Port church, almost surrounded by modern office buildings. Sadly, the nave of this mediaeval church was destroyed in a bombing raid during the last war, the tower now serving as a war memorial. To the immediate right of Bristol Bridge, just across the road, can be seen the nave and tower of St. Nicholas church, the nave being re-roofed in the 1960’s, and now serving as a Tourist Information Office and small museum, where may be seen the gigantic Hogarth Triptych, commissioned as a backdrop to the altar of St. Mary Redcliffe, mentioned elsewhere on this site. The tower houses the only church clock in England with a second-hand. As a young lad, I remember there being a small hole (about 1" across, caused by shrapnel) in the door of the crypt, where, under the right conditions, you could go inside, and the light coming through this hole would form an inverted image of the street outside, much like a camera-obscura. Alas, the doors were replaced many decades ago, and so this phenomenon can no longer appear. In the far distance, the River Avon wends its way down to the coast, beyond the horizon.