Thanks to a suggestion from Clifton Voice, a Clifton man who writes and publishes online walks around London has agreed to do something similar in Bristol.
We put the idea of a Bristol walks website to Kevin Abbey and he tells us that he has now registered a Bristol walks website and already started the research necessary to produce the first Bristol walk, which will be around Clifton. He hopes it will be available later this year.
Kevin said: “One of the reasons for the success and excellent feedback from my London Walks is the amount of research I put into each one. They can take me six months or more to produce as besides the actual writing of the walk, they take a considerable amount of time to delve into the history and background of the various buildings and places each walk visits, as well as taking the photographs.”
The Bristol walks will follow a similar concept, with maps and photographs as well as the narrative.
Kevin said that, as with London, the walks would be free to view and download, so as to make them as accessible as possible to the widest number of people.
Kevin, who worked for the then Bristol Evening Post and Western Daily Press, later started up People & Planet, a fair trade company, then Dolphin Travel, which became Bakers Dolphin.
These days Kevin is active as a trustee for the Friends of Bristol Eye Hospital, which is holding a fund-raising wine tasting evening at the Clifton Club on September 19th.
Kevin’s London walks can be found at www.mylondonwalks.com