Ten Views presents selected views of each of the twelve regions of the United Kingdom as captured during a motorcycle roadtrip in the autumn of 2017. The collection is part of the Regional Rides project.
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A tailback on the A30. A traffic accident on what remains mostly single carriageway interrupted my progress toward Bodelva, Cornwall.
The two greenhouses of the Eden Trust’s Eden Project in their setting : a regenerated clay pit. The gardens were a natural starting point for a tour of the United Kingdom, and South West England within it.
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A member of staff at work in the rainforest biome. Twenty years after its establishment, the Trust employs some 500 people.
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Motor vehicle traffic threads its way through the narrow streets of Totnes, Devon. The small town is home to the Transition Towns Movement; the local group published what may be the first Energy Descent Action Plan (for the district).
Mist descends on Dartmoor, drained by the Dart whose course I followed up from Totnes. Nervous that my bike would stall – it had cut out near Ashburton – I rode as fast as conditions allowed to overnight accommodation on the moor.
South Bristol terraced housing along a street given largely to motor vehicle access and parking. I spent a reasonably comfortable night here on a sofa belonging to a friend’s landlord, getting some much needed rest.
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The Wills Memorial building on Park Street. I parked midway down the street, a short walk to College Green, the venue for a rally and march by the People’s Assembly Against Austerity.
A small number of the many groups and persons who assembled for the rally and march, by Bristol Cathedral. I managed to speak to Anne Lemon, a senior official in the National Union of Teachers (now National Education Union), and member of the Socialist Workers Party which had a stall at the event.
Mounted police bring up the rear of the march en-route to Broadmead.
Some of those near the rear including the small but vocal Momentum Bristol contingent.
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