As I walked down Midland Road in Bristol’s St Philips area this morning, all that remained of the Ebenezer Chapel (posts passim), East Bristol’s first Primitive Methodist place of worship, was a pile of rubble.
Built in 1849, the Ebenezer Chapel had been a landmark in East Bristol for 165 years.
Years of neglect by its owners and one week in the hands of demolition contractors have now ensured it is no more. 🙁
Last Friday, the Bedfordshire News website published a story of a visit by Defence Minister and Tory MP for Ludlow Philip Dunne to the hangars at Cardington, one of the major British sites historically involved in the development of airships.
From the screenshot below, the visit provided a photo opportunity.
The ministerial party looks like it’s been excreted from or is about to be crushed by a giant bottom. Don’t ministers and their civil service minders ever check behind them before smiling for the camera?