Intersection. The no man’s land beneath the M49 and M5.
A trip out to the tip (or Household Waste Recycling Centre, to give it its proper title) at Avonmouth was enough to arouse my interest at the surreal no man’s land that surrounds the Kings Weston Lane site.
This is where the M49 and M5 motorways intersect, it is also home to the Lawrence Weston Solar Farm, numerous wind turbines, the St Anthony’s Park traveller site and a very remote, derelict industrial building which despite being boarded-up and overgrown still emits humming sounds from the basement ventilation shafts. All in all it is a strange non-place and one that I wanted to explore further. So a couple of days later I jumped on my bike and headed over there, this is what I found…
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Did you ever find out what this building was?
Hi Sam.
Yes I did – apparently it’s a sewage pumping station. Thanks to HoosierSands on Flickr for the info 😉
Yes, it’s a wessex water owned sewerage pumping station, as are the two industrial installations (one pictured), all of the land belongs to wessex water and is accessible by them from a gate at the back of avonmouth sewerage treatment works,
Hi Charles, that’s great thanks for the info. I didn’t know that all the land here is owned by Wessex Water.
We use to ride our motorbikes there when we were teenagers, a local lad unfortunately died falling off, the honourary graffiti may still be there?. It was also easy to access then. A little gross fact, there were skips full of used sanitary towels left next to the pump house and we never understood why.
I was there recently I noticed a couple of bouquets of flowers, don’t know if that’s connected.
I walked around it a couple of days ago taking some snaps, the amount of graffiti on the building has almost doubled. See here: https://500px.com/photo/1024658816/urban-art-le-bw-by-mark-nash
Nice shot Mark