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Brunel's Dockside WALKING GUIDE BRUNEL’S DOCKSIDE The Brunel Mile and dockside walk www.brunel200.com 2 Brunel 200: Brunel’s Dockside Brunel 200: Brunel’s Dockside 3 2006 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the most versatile, audacious and inspirational engineers of the nineteenth century. Brunel 200 celebrates Brunel’s life, The guides are linked to the Bristol times and legacy with exhibitions, Legible City (BLC) way-finding learning programmes, publications, information system, which includes walks and trails, heritage and arts walking maps and on-street signage projects, competitions, debates, designed to improve people’s media programmes and talks in understanding and experience of Bristol, the South West and beyond. the city. The BLC walking maps are free of charge and are widely Bristol is home to some of Brunel’s available across the city. They can finest work including the original be found at tourist information Great Western Railway terminus at centres, visitor attractions, libraries, Temple Meads (now home to the hotel receptions, travel arrival British Empire and Commonwealth points and many other sites. Museum), the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the iron steamship See www.brunel200.com for ss Great Britain. full details of the Brunel 200 programme. Brunel’s Dockside is one of a series of three guides to Bristol produced as part of the Brunel 200 Enjoy your exploration of programme. The other guides in the Brunel’s Bristol and the city’s series are: dockside heritage! • Victorian Bristol • Brunel’s Clifton 4 Brunel 200: Brunel’s Dockside Brunel 200: Brunel’s Dockside 5 Brunel’s Dockside As well as building the Great Western Railway (GWR) City Sightseeing open-top tour bus, which is in operation from Easter to and designing the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Brunel September. The most convenient was involved in two major shipbuilding enterprises in bus services for travelling across the city are the numbers 8 and 9, Bristol that transformed ocean-going travel. operated by First, which run frequently between Bristol Temple Meads station and the city centre Working for the Great Western still be viewed today, as this and on to Clifton. These routes are Steamship Company, he designed guide reveals. marked on the BLC map along with and constructed the ss Great 1 Launch of the ss Great Britain ferry boat and tour bus stops. (ss Great Britain Trust). Western and, even more The Walk significantly, the ss Great Britain. This guide provides directions for Less well known is that between an enjoyable walk from Brunel’s 1832 and 1848, he was engaged GWR station at Temple Meads to as consulting engineer for the his ss Great Britain with the option Bristol Docks Company. He worked of extending this on to Underfall on a number of projects, the most Yard and the Brunel lock and swing important being to devise an bridge. Allow at least two hours to effective means of dealing with the complete, not including time for recurrent problem of silting in the visiting attractions or stopping for harbour and the design of the South refreshments along the route. Entrance lock. The ss Great Britain The guide provides details of ferry is a familiar city landmark and boats that can be used for part of popular visitor destination, but the tour and for the return trip to there are also substantial remains Temple Meads, if needed, as well as of Brunel’s docks work that can bus services, including the Bristol 1 6 Brunel 200: Brunel’s Dockside Brunel 200: Brunel’s Dockside 7 poisoning. His early tragic end has led to the romantic legend of the THE boy genius destroyed by a philistine world, a legend enhanced by Henry Wallis’ famous portrait of the penniless young man lying dead in his London garret. WALK 2 Continue up Redcliffe Way, towards 4 the large, landscaped traffic a single roof. It ceased to be used The Brunel Mile forms the roundabout, and cross the road at as a station in 1965 and is now England’. Parts of the church date the pedestrian crossing to view the southern boundary of home to the British Empire and back to the twelfth century. beautiful St Mary Redcliffe church Commonwealth Museum. The Canynges, a Bristol mercantile BLC’s main pedestrian (BLC map reference N7). Queen Information on how the station family, were among the most Elizabeth, on a visit to Bristol in route through and around was built, along with descriptions high-profile of the church’s early 1574, is said to have declared this of the other railway structures on patrons, paying for major building Bristol city centre. to be the ‘fairest, goodliest and this Temple Meads site, is in the projects in the fourteenth and most famous parish church in fifteenth centuries. The Canynges It runs between Brunel’s GWR Victorian Bristol guide. Society, founded in 1848 to raise station at Temple Meads and the Cross Temple Gate at the funds for essential restoration work, waterfront opposite the ss Great pedestrian crossing directly outside is still active on the church’s behalf Britain, Brunel’s pioneering the museum to the Express by having been revived in 1928. steamship. Along the way it passes Holiday Inn hotel opposite. Much of the nineteenth-century Queen Square, where Brunel served Turn right and follow the road restoration was carried out under as a special constable during the round to your left along Redcliffe the direction of George Goodwin. Bristol Riots. The designated Brunel Way. Crossing to the left hand side The imposing spire, which was Mile is marked in orange on the of the road, using the pedestrian truncated after being struck by 2006 edition of the BLC map, but crossing, walk along Redcliffe Way lighting in 1446, reached its full this guide provides a variation to to Chatterton House where the height of 292 feet in 1872. that route. boy-poet, Thomas Chatterton, was From the church, cross the bottom Brunel’s GWR station was born in 1752. Chatterton left Bristol of Redcliff Hill and walk past the completed in 1841 and is thought for London in April 1770, allegedly disappointed by his lack of to be the first true railway terminus, 2 Brunel’s GWR station in Bristol with trains and people all inhabiting recognition at home, and died (photograph by Ian Blantern). shortly afterwards of arsenic 3 & 4 Chatterton House and plaque the same integrated space beneath 3 (photographs by Martin Chainey). 8 Brunel 200: Brunel’s Dockside Brunel 200: Brunel’s Dockside 9 as a special constable to stop 8 Queen Square setts (photograph by looting. Armed with a chair leg, it is Stephen Morris). 9 The statue of William III (photograph by said that he actually arrested a man Stephen Morris). but was tricked into handing him over to another rioter disguised as a constable. Many buildings were burnt to the ground during the rioting and business confidence in the city plummeted, leading to delays in the construction of 5 Brunel’s bridge. Quaker’s Burial Ground to Redcliffe Although the destroyed buildings Bridge. As you approach the bridge, were gradually replaced, the square to your left you will see Redcliffe failed to recover its former prestige Wharf where the 1997 6 and during the 1940s suffered the reconstruction of the Matthew, indignity of having a dual carriageway built across it. In the the wooden craft used by explorer This elegant square, the largest 1990s, Bristol City Council initiated 8 John Cabot on his voyage to outside London, was named in Newfoundland in 1497, was built. honour of Queen Anne when she Cross the bridge and enter Queen visited the city in 1702 and was Square (BLC map reference M6). home to some of Bristol’s wealthiest merchants. The square was also the site of the Bristol Riots of 1831, which stemmed from discontent at the corruption of city officials and the defeat of the Reform Bill. Brunel visited the city the day after the riots started to supervise work on the Clifton Suspension Bridge and, as the situation worsened, was sworn in 5, 6 & 7 The east nave of St Mary Redcliffe, with views from the Floating Harbour and of the 7 south side (photographs by John Pickard). 9 10 Brunel 200: Brunel’s Dockside Brunel 200: Brunel’s Dockside 11 plans to renovate the square, In recent years, the waterfront area will find the At-Bristol complex. removing the dual carriageway, has been regenerated with a variety Bristol’s Tourist Information Centre restoring gravel paths, digging up of restaurants, bars, cafés and is in the foyer of Wildwalk on the tarmac to reveal the original setts nightclubs, which are particularly right. Explore-At-Bristol, at the far beneath and planting mature busy in the evening. Diverting from side of the square, was converted saplings to fill gaps between the the Brunel Mile and walking up from a reinforced-concrete railway trees. The official re-opening of the towards Bordeaux Quay on your goods shed. Explore is hosting a square took place in September 10 right, you will come to the major exhibition called The Forces 2000 and it is once again one of the Watershed Media Centre, which is That Made I K Brunel as part of the most attractive public spaces in the housed in two converted Victorian Brunel 200 celebrations. Walking to city. The equestrian statue in the warehouses (BLC map reference the left of Explore will bring you centre is of King William III in the K5). Watershed has cinemas, into Millennium Square where you guise of a Roman emperor.
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