Welcome to Arnos Manor Hotel.

Brislington may lie just south of the most haunted city in the UK - Bristol - but it has its own claim to creepiness. 

If you dare take a visit, you might witness a pregnant nun wander through the hallways of a hotel, or maybe even hear her soft voice as you drift asleep... 

Her death will be sure to snap you awake, however. 

The nun couldn't bear the shame of her sin, and committed suicide. Her fellow sisters then bricked her body into one of the walls that make up this hotel. Her body was only discovered during the war.

When Barbara Jones published Follies and Grottoes in 1953, she made no mention of the coastal village that architect Clough Williams-Ellis had been creating at Portmeirion since 1925. Reviewing the book for the Times Literary Supplement, Laurence Whistler thought this was a ‘curious’ omission as he believed the whole conception could be described as folly. Continue reading The Bristol Colonnade,…

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Block Paved Driveway in Brislington, Bristol

This driveway project has been recently completed by SD Home Improvements in Brislington, Bristol.

First we took out the old pathway and lawn and we knocked down the front wall.

Then we installed new hardcore foundation with membrane sheeting and compacted it down. We set new ACO drain channels at the front of the driveway to prevent water running down onto the public walkway.

Finally we laid the driveway with Charcoal paving bricks in a 90° pattern and enclosed it with a double border.