The stunning interior of the Goldney Grotto in the grounds of Goldney Hall, Clifton, Bristol built by Thomas Goldney III in 1737 seen on the first of five days in 2013 when it is open to the public, May 12 2013. It is the finest surviving example of an eighteenth-century garden grotto in Britain and it’s walls and pillars are covered with a vast variety of minerals, shells, corals, rocks and fossils, some of which may have been brought back to Bristol by privateer Captain Woodes Rogers. Goldney was the principle investor in Rogers exploits which inspired the tale Robinson Crusoe, included the third circumnavigation of the globe and saw him plunder 20 ships in one year. The grotto is now owned by the University of Bristol and is only opened to the public for a few days every year.