Bristol Harbour Heritage Trail Bristol’s Floating Harbour was built at the The Harbour complex also contains three miles of man- beginning of the 19th century and opened on 1 May 1809. made waterways – the New Cut and the Feeder Canal. The The famous canal engineer William Jessop devised a former provided a tidal bypass for smaller vessels to enter scheme that impounded 83 acres of the tidal river Avon, or leave the Harbour further inland, at Bathurst or meaning that for the first time ships in the port of Bristol Totterdown locks. This delivered the barges and small could stay afloat at all times – hence the (to modern ears) sailing vessels closer to the parts of the Harbour they curious name. wanted to use. The Feeder provided both a supply of fresh water to maintain the level of the Harbour and a route for For centuries, ships visiting Bristol had used the strong tidal inland waterways craft to rejoin the river Avon above the current to carry them the six miles between the city and weir at Netham, on which they could journey to Bath and the mouth of the river Avon. Careful navigation was needed later in the century to London. to ensure that they reached their destination before the tide ebbed, forcing the ships to go aground at whatever point The Harbour officially ceased to be part of the commercial they had reached. The quaysides couldn’t accommodate Port of Bristol in 1975 and has since been the scene of many ships and by the late 1700s lots more ships wanted extensive regeneration. The extent of it – nearly eight miles to visit than could be fitted in. of water across three miles of the city – makes for a tremendously varied landscape. This booklet describes The Floating Harbour allowed the city’s merchants to several trails that walkers and cyclists can follow alongside continue trading from their long-established warehouses all of these waterways. We encourage you to explore for on Narrow and Broad Quays, the Grove and the Backs. At yourselves the byways and mysteries that this unique the same time, it inadvertently allowed masses of room for feature of Bristol offers. port expansion over the next 150 years. Jessop didn’t intend this, but by placing the entrance locks at Hotwells, as far up the river as anyone believed a ship could safely travel on one tide, he impounded far more of the river than was needed for trade at the time.

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Allotments Along the Harbour - Prince Street Bridge to It was the last wharf to operate commercially when the 3 The steam crane marks the start of Wapping Railway 6 On the left are the former main offices and studios of Cumberland Basin Harbour closed in 1975. The transit sheds then became Wharf. From the 1870s, this was open quayside with Aardman Animations, the Bristol-based company that the home of Bristol Industrial Museum and now the railway sidings where The Point residential has produced the Wallace and Gromit series of films Starting on the south (Wapping Road) new Museum of Bristol in M-Shed. The Museum development now stands. Brunel’s Buttery has a and the Oscar-winning Chicken Run. It was built in the side of Prince Street swing Bridge, service looks after the cranes and three historic citywide reputation for its bacon sandwiches! 1980s as a banana-ripening warehouse for Fyffe’s. vessels (the tugs Mayflower and John King and the fire Aardman’s later purpose-built offices and studios, travel westwards in front of L and M 4 At the end of Wapping Wharf is the Bristol Packet, from Sheds, the home of the new Museum boat Pyronaut) and operates a steam railway. where you can take a tour of the Harbour or, when the completed in 2008, are further along the road on the left. of Bristol (due to open in 2011). 2 Further along Princes Wharf, you’ll see the Fairbairn tide is right, have a trip down the Avon Gorge. steam crane, finished in 1878. It was built to handle 5 Beyond is Brunel’s s.s.Great Britain, the world’s first Just past the red brick warehouse on occasional heavy lifts up to 35 tons. It is a Scheduled iron passenger liner. This great ship was launched from Ancient Monument, but it still works and is your right, there is a pathway that Be wary of the sunken railway lines if you are cycling – here in 1843 and travelled the world’s oceans, before demonstrated by the Museum on some weekends. leads to the head of the Albion dry they are very slippery in the wet and it is advised that returning to Bristol as a hulk in 1970. By extraordinary dock. cyclists walk this stretch. (Just by the steam crane on the left is a cycle path that chance, she now lies in her original building dock, and will link you to the New Cut at 36.) both this and the ship have been restored to create a 7 The dry dock on your right and the industrial buildings 1 This is Princes Wharf. Before the wharf was built up in unique visitor experience. around you are the last remains of a shipyard that the 1860s, it had long been a shipbuilding area, and As you approach the brick building thrived on this site from 1820 until 1977. When they it’s here that IK Brunel had his first ship, the Great closed, Charles Hill & Sons were the oldest shipbuilding Western built in 1837. The Great Western was one of ahead, pedestrians can go to the right, company in the UK, having been established in 1772. the earliest steamships to cross the Atlantic. Later, the onto the quay edge. Cyclists and At the s.s. Great Britain, turn left The Albion Dockyard extended across the whole of wharf was built up and a 7-storey granary erected on wheelchair users must go to the left, onto Gas Ferry Road and travel 100 what is now Bristol Marina. Boatbuilding and repair still the site. Everything here was destroyed during the Blitz into the roadway. TAKE GREAT CARE continues here on a smaller scale. on Bristol and the wharf was remodelled in the early metres. 1950s with new electric cranes, railways, flush AT THIS POINT – CARS AND roadways and transit sheds to handle general mixed TRAINS CONVERGE HERE AND THE cargo on ships from the Baltic and southern Ireland. RAILS ARE PROUD OF THE ROAD SURFACE. 4 5 11 Cumberland Basin was one of the most expensive Beyond the building on the corner, turn Continue straight ahead past the At the far end of the Yard, turn left to elements of the Harbour to build. It was designed as a right and head towards the gated Cottage towards the Underfall Yard. the road. Turn right here and proceed half-tidal basin, enabling more ships to arrive and entrance to the Albion Dockyard. You This is another working area, and you towards the swing bridge. Turn right at leave safely for some hours either side of high tide can make a diversion here to look should exercise due care. the Nova Scotia pub. than could have been managed by locks alone. around but this is a working area, and, (Note: if access through the Yard is closed for working 10 The water to your left here is Jessop’s original junction 12 As you approach the flyover, you’ll notice a blocked whilst you are unlikely to be prevented operations, you can skirt around it by leaving through lock into the Harbour from Cumberland Basin. It was branch to the left; this was the way in to the southern from wandering amongst the craft the green gate on the left onto Cumberland Road and blocked after the new Junction Lock was built in the entrance lock, one of Jessop’s two originals and later under repair on dry land, you must following Avon Crescent. You can also access the New late 1860s. The row of cottages on the far side was enlarged by IK Brunel. Under the flyover is another Cut at 40 by carefully crossing Cumberland Road here). built for its employees by the Dock Company in the piece of ‘Bruneliana’, a wrought-iron swing bridge that exercise due care. 1830s and now houses a number of maritime 9 The Underfall Yard is named after the sluices (‘underfalls’) originally crossed Brunel’s lock. It uses tubular Continue to the left around the top of that control the level of water in the Harbour. This is organisations. construction that Brunel later adopted for his major the Marina basin and to the right down railway bridges at Chepstow and Saltash. where the tidal river Avon was originally dammed (the Retrace your steps to the bridge and the slipway, veering to the left onto Overfall dam, a form of weir) to create the Floating cross the road carefully to a ramp 13 The flyover is part of a major road scheme built in the the waterside walkway. Harbour in 1809, and remains the operational centre for mid-1960s. It crosses the Harbour on the Plimsoll maintenance and operation of all the lock gates, bridges leading down to the quayside at Bridge, named for Samuel Plimsoll, the shipping safety 8 This area is Baltic Wharf, once the home of several Cumberland Basin. Continue along the timber yards where ships from the Baltic, Canada and and leisure activities today. JB Girdlestone, Docks campaigner who was born in Bristol. The bridge can Russia came to offload cargoes. The quayside was Engineer, mostly installed the facilities that you can see edge of the water towards the flyover. open and close in three minutes to allow shipping to never built up, so that dockers had to run on planks today in the 1880s and the Yard is now a Scheduled (Note: some people will find it impossible to cross the pass. laid across barges between ship and shore carrying Ancient Monument. Part of the Yard is operated by a Trust locks at the far end of Cumberland Basin, although ac- long lengths of wood. The pub called the Cottage at the to encourage traditional boat-building and –repair skills. cess up to them is good. Instead, cross the Harbour end of this stretch was once the office for one of the The haul-out slipway is in regular use to maintain here on Junction Lock Bridge and continue to the timber firms. vessels. There are interpretive panels to tell you more Pumphouse at 17). about the Yard.

6 7 Continue under the flyover onto the (You can join the walk along the New Cross the lock gates on the walkway promontory alongside the lock. Take Cut at 43 from here by continuing with care. Cyclists will need to wheel particular care here on the unfenced down the left side of Brunel’s lock and their bicycles. On the far side turn quaysides with very long drops and deep heading to the left.) right and pass under the Plimsoll water. It is recommended that cyclists 15 To the right of this lock are the remains of Jessop’s Bridge. There is a mark on the control dismount to explore this area. Start on northern entrance lock. It was here that the s.s. Great cabin to record the highest ever tide – the left of the promontory, near the Britain nearly came to grief as she left Bristol in 1844. over 40 feet (12.4 metres). Continue fixed wrought iron bridge. At low tide you can see in the mud the gridiron, where down the side of the Basin to Junction ships could be dried out as the tide receded for minor 14 From the fixed bridge (a copy of Brunel’s swing bridge, repair or inspection work on their hulls. Lock swing bridge and carefully cross which was originally positioned here) you will have the road towards the Pumphouse pub. good view of the remains of the southern entrance 16 The current entrance lock was opened in 1873, lock. This was the smaller of the two built by Jessop in replacing the earlier two. It can accommodate the 1809, and much enlarged in 1845 by IK Brunel. It had largest ships that can navigate the Avon. The lock one large gate at each end, hinged on the left and gates were operated by the hydraulic system from the designed to swing back into the curved recess that is Underfall Yard, but by 2010 this will have been usually visible. The right-hand side of the lock has a replaced. From here it is six miles by water to the ledge that was intended to allow clearance for the mouth of the River Avon where it joins the Severn paddle wheel on one side of the largest steamers at estuary. The tidal range there can be as much as 52 the time, saving the cost of making the entire lock to feet (16 metres), and even here at the lock the river this width. You also get a good view of the Clifton rises as much as 37 feet (11.6 metres), covering the Suspension Bridge from here. whole promontory on some spring tides.

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R OAD Along the Harbour - Junction Lock to 19 Notice the brick remains of the railway swing bridge 21 The Mardyke was traditionally a waiting area for ships Prince Street Bridge that crossed the lock at its inner end, bringing the when berths in the city centre were occupied. It was Continue round the harbour inlet and Bristol Harbour Railway from Ashton swing bridge to built up in the 1860s and became the mooring for the on to Canon’s Marsh as far as the 17 The swing bridge was installed in 1925 to replace an Canon’s Marsh. Just beyond is the inlet for the Royal Naval Reserve drill ships Daedalus, and Flying tower with a weathervane on it – about earlier bridge. John Lysaght & Co, a major Bristol- entrance to the now-filled Merchants Dock. This was Fox. 500m based structural steelwork company, built it. It bridges built in 1768 by William Champion as Bristol’s first wet the Junction Lock, which links the Basin to the 24 Transit sheds close to the water and a railway goods dock and was operated for many years by the yard behind once occupied this heavily redeveloped Harbour. It is rarely used as a lock today, but does Merchant Venturers. house the stop gates, which are closed when the tide Continue to Capricorn Quay area. None of it existed before 1900 – the quaysides in the river is expected to rise higher than the Harbour and railway yard were part of a major expansion of 22 Capricorn Quay is the modern name for a residential facilities at the turn of the century. In the 1920s, huge level. These are an essential part of Bristol’s flood development on the site of the Lime Kiln Dry Dock. The 20 The next bridge crosses the former dry dock of the concrete bonded warehouses for tobacco were defence system. grass area between the two blocks shows its outline. shipyard that was on the site, now called Poole's constructed in this area too. These were blown up 18 The Pumphouse housed the original hydraulic pumping The dry dock closed in 1903. Wharf. Established by Hilhouse in 1772, it was later spectacularly in 1988 for the construction of the Lloyds system for operating the lock gates and bridges of the occupied by some of Bristol’s more pioneering 23 The old roofless large stone buildings at the end of Bank headquarters to begin. 1870s locks. It was superseded by the Underfall Yard shipbuilders, including GK Stothert. Shipbuilding Capricorn Quay are the last remaining structures of system in the late1880s. 25 The amphitheatre in front of Lloyds takes its radius finished here in 1904, but repair continued until the Canon’s Marsh Gas Works. This was Bristol’s first gas from the stone tower. This was originally the base for a Continue with the water on your right 1930s, after which the area became a coal-importing works, initially making gas from whale oil in the 1820s steam crane, scrapped in 1969. The weather vane and yard and then the final home of Bristol’s sand-dredging but later converting to coal gas. The works remained towards the next bridge turret were rescued from a demolished building fleets. After they left in 1991, the area was redeveloped active until the mid 1960s when natural gas arrived. elsewhere in the city and placed here in the 1970s. with housing. Head up the ramp close to Lloyds and Continue past the housing here and past the four square columns into onto the Mardyke. Millennium Square.

14 15 26 The concrete building with the silver sphere attached 28 This stretch of water is called St Augustine’s Reach, 30 This side of the Reach is called Narrow Quay. Together to it is the remodelled Great Western Railway goods after the abbey church of St Augustine (now Bristol with Broad Quay (now landlocked to the north) this was shed, one of the earliest surviving reinforced concrete Cathedral). The Reach was the course of the river the main trading wharf of the port for centuries. It was buildings in the UK. It houses the hands-on science Frome, diverted into this man-made trench in 1247. constructed alongside St Augustines Reach in the centre Explore @t Bristol. Round the corner to the The water once remained open for another 400 metres 1240s. It remained Bristol’s principal wharf until the right is Anchor Square. The stone building on the right through what is now the city centre (you can still find major expansion of quaysides on Wapping in the 1860s. was Rowe Bros lead works, built here in the late 1890s the end where the road is called Quay Head) but was to take advantage of the railway that was about to covered over in stages from the 1890s to the late Continue towards the end of the Quay. arrive here. 1930s, initially to create a terminus for Bristol’s electric 31 The Architecture Centre is housed in one of the few tramways system. buildings that date from the time of the Floating Continue toward the footbridge over Harbour’s construction. 29 The last transit shed along the Reach, E Shed, (now the Harbour. home to the Watershed complex) has a very ornate end 32 The last building on the Quay is the Bush warehouse, 27 The bridge is called Pero’s Bridge for an enslaved wall, designed to make the vista from the city centre home to the Arnolfini art gallery. Originally built in African boy who was brought to Bristol as a servant for more interesting when it was completed in 1896. Right about 1833 as an anchor warehouse and offices by the the Pinney family in the 1740s. He was one of very few up to the 1960s, cargo ships tied up on this stretch of major Bristol engineering company Acramans, it was Africans that came here; most were shipped directly water, making the port very much part of the life of the expanded in the mid 1830s in expectation of the tea from Africa to the West Indies to be exchanged for city. trade coming to Bristol (although it never did). plantation crops like sugar which was brought to Bristol for processing, a triangular trade on which Cross to the far side of the Reach 33 Prince Street swing bridge replaced a drawbridge in much of the city’s wealth was based. 1878. It is operated by water hydraulic power and and continue down the opposite side to swings regularly during the summer months. It is the At this point you can cross the bridge Pero’s Bridge. lowest bridge in the Harbour. Before the Floating moving on to 30 in the itinerary. OR Harbour was built, there was a ferry across the tidal you can turn left along the quayside to river at this point. the end of the water. Cross Prince Street Bridge to 1.

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Aardman Animations new studios and marks the junction of the Cut and the original tidal bars, this waterside walkway was built when the offices (see 6) precede Gas Ferry Road. Next is the Avon. This is where the dam was built to create the From the south side of Prince Street Bristol Harbour Railway linked Ashton Bridge with former office building of Charles Hill & Sons, Floating Harbour and until the 1840s there was a weir Bridge, continue south on the right Wapping Wharf in 1906. shipbuilders and operators of the Bristol City Line of – the Overfall – here to control the Harbour level. Steamships from 1820 until 1977, one of the city’s Sluices –the Underfalls – replaced its function and hand-side of Wapping Road. At the 37 The New Cut was dug as part of the scheme to create mini-roundabout, turn right the Floating Harbour in 1804-9. Its role was to create a longest-lived companies. Finally, Spike Island Artspace, much of the land around it was reclaimed to create the a former Brooke Bond tea-packing factory (25% of Underfall Yard (9). At low tide you can see the outlets 34 The curved section of stone wall on the corner and the tidal bypass for smaller vessels that could lock in at Bathurst lock (74) or Totterdown lock (85), allowing the Britain’s tea came through Avonmouth Docks during from the Underfalls at this point. gateway a little further along Cumberland Road are the the 1950s and 1960s). last remains of Bristol’s New Gaol. Built in 1816, it main locks at Cumberland Basin to handle larger ships. Continue along the path. suffered considerable damage during the Bristol Riots It was used for this until the Second World War. Over 39 Vauxhall footbridge was built in 1900 to link the of 1831. It continued in use until 1883, with regular 1000 men were employed in digging it. A persistent developing suburbs Ashton and Southville with the rest (A little further along, you can public executions on top of the gateway until 1845. local myth says that French Napoleonic War prisoners of the city via the Harbour ferries. It was designed to carefully cross the railway and the were used, but the labour force was largely composed swing to allow masted vessels past, although it hasn't road to reach the Underfall Yard and Cross the road at the lights of English and Irish navvies, well experienced in swung since 1936. It is another of the bridges built by the Harbour walkway at 9.) 35 The ornate footbridge at the lights is Gaol Ferry Bridge, digging canals across Britain. There are interpretation John Lysaght & Co in Bristol (see 80). 41 Three very large red brick buildings dominate this area. built in the 1930s to replace the ferry that crossed the panels along the Cut, placed here by the Friends of the Avon New Cut (FrANC). Continue along the path. They were built as bonded tobacco warehouses by the Cut here. You can still see the ramps leading to the Corporation so that the local manufacturers WD & HO ferry on both sides. The bridge is also a good viewpoint (Steps to Vauxhall footbridge can be Wills could import large quantities through the port and from which to see the most spectacular section of the used as a link back to the Harbour at store it here. The first one you come to, A Bond, was New Cut. 21 via Mardyke Ferry Road.) finished in 1905, followed by B Bond (now the Create Return to the road and turn left. In Centre and Bristol Record Office) in 1908. The third (C Bond over the river) was delayed by the First World War about 200 metres fork left down the and a fourth projected one was never built. ramp to the waterside path

22 23 42 Ashton swing bridge was constructed as a two-level railway and road bridge in 1906. Another Lysaght construction, it carried the Bristol Harbour Railway extension that linked the main line to Wapping Wharf and Canons Marsh. It last swung in 1934 and was fixed in place in 1951. The road deck was removed in 1965. Continue past B Bond and fork left behind the buildings below the flyover. Follow the footpath to the end of the promontory. 43 There is a concrete memorial on the promontory commemorating the completion of the Cumberland Basin flyover scheme in 1965. The view down the gorge to the Clifton Suspension Bridge from its seat is spectacular, but marred by the constant traffic noise. Continue around the promontory to the fixed wrought iron bridge, which links with the Harbour walk at 14.

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R OAD The Inner Harbour – Prince Street to 49 Redcliffe Wharf was for decades the base for the Lucas Temple Meads (From the lock in the south west Brothers who traded with West Africa for palm oil, a Cross the bridge to Welsh Back and corner you can cross the road and join staple in the manufacture of soap. Currently it is a base follow this to Bristol Bridge. You can Start at Prince Street Bridge, south the New Cut at 34) for traditional boatbuilding and occasional events pick your way along the water’s edge side. Keeping the water to your left 46 Bristol General Hospital was completed in 1858, with whilst it awaits redevelopment. Opposite the wharf is behind the single-storey transit sheds move east along the quayside to the its ground floor devoted to warehousing for ships Severn Shed, now a modern restaurant, but also the and more modern buildings. earliest remaining transit shed in Bristol built for short- corner. visiting the Basin. It was used as a location of the BBC 51 Redcliffe Backs on the opposite bank were lined for drama Being Human in 2009. It is scheduled to close term storage of goods from steamships in 1865. 44 This was Bathurst Wharf (now called Merchants Quay), most of their length with granaries and mills. The as a hospital in 2010. constructed in the 1860s and for many years the home Continue along the quayside to the Western Counties Agricultural Society had a mill on the site of the new flats by the bridge, and they also owned of transit sheds and an oil seed mill. On the opposite Cross the footbridge and turn left road gate and cross the road at the side of the Harbour you can see the Thekla, a Baltic the next three buildings. The imposing red brick 47 The Ostrich is one of remarkably few traditional zebra crossing to your right. Make coaster brought to Bristol in 1983 to serve as a floating warehouse was completed in 1910, a pioneering dockside pubs in Bristol. Above it is the splendid entertainment venue, and River Station restaurant, your way to Redcliffe Bridge. concrete framed structure; the less-glamorous Georgian Redcliffe Parade – worth a detour up the once the River Police base, built in the 1950s. The lock 50 The bridge was completed in 1942, and is a bascule neighbouring cheese warehouse is entirely concrete. steps for the view over the Harbour from the car park. at the end, now disused, leads into Bathurst Basin. bridge (one which lifts to allow ships through). There Alongside this is an older red-brick warehouse from are excellent views from it up Welsh (on the left) and the mid 19th century. Continue to the footbridge. Redcliffe Backs towards Bristol Bridge. The Backs are 52 Next, after a modern infill building that replaces a 45 Bathurst Basin was part of Jessop’s Floating Harbour 48 Continue past the old ferry slip onto Midland Wharf named such because they were once literally the granary destroyed in the war, are the red brick towers scheme and was created by enlarging the mill pond of (renamed Phoenix Wharf in the 1970s for the backs of merchants’ houses from where goods were of the Buchanan's Wharf development. These were the tidal Trin Mills which had stood here since the renovation work funded here by Phoenix Assurance). loaded directly to ships. Vessels from Wales frequented another granary and mill built by Proctor Baker, a Middle Ages. At the far end of the Basin another lock There are metal plaques on the wall commemorating Welsh Back, whilst Redcliffe Backs were named for the prominent local grain merchant and the chairman of led into the New Cut, used as an access by smaller this and explaining about Redcliffe Caves, which you once-autonomous township on this side of the river. the Docks Committee for many years at the end of the vessels bypassing the main entrance to the Harbour. also pass. The black wooden shed is named for 19th century. He later sold his business to Spillers, who Bathurst Basin could be used as a half-tidal basin. The Benjamin Perry, the tug and barge owner whose base moved to Avonmouth in 1937. footbridge stands on the site of a railway bridge (see 68). this was. Follow the quayside around the shed.

30 31 53 As you emerge from the sheds on Welsh Back at Little 56 Bristol Bridge is the reason for Bristol being where it is. 58 On the opposite side of the Harbour are the remaining 60 From the centre of the bridge, there is a good view King Street, you should look inland for The Granary, a In the early days of the city, this was the best point at structures from Georges’ Brewery (later Courage’s). down Temple Backs. This was once Bristol’s industrial grain store built in the Bristol Byzantine style by which to cross the river and to which to bring ships There was a brewery on this site from the mid-18th backyard, particularly on the left bank. From the bridge architects Ponton & Gough in 1869. In the 1960s it conveniently on one tide. A settlement grew around the century, run from 1788 by Philip George and his family. in about 1890 there was, in quick succession, a lead housed a well-known nightclub and has recently been crossing from about 1000AD. The bridge was made a Next to it was Conrad Finzel's sugar refinery, the works, an iron foundry, a glass bottle works, a white converted into flats. permanent structure about 1247 and replaced in 1769 largest of many in Bristol, which finally closed in 1881. lead works, a railway locomotive factory, a major with the one seen today. Its roadway was widened in The refinery sprawled around the corner as far as St railway bridge, a gas works and a soap factory. The 54 Also close to Welsh Back, in King St, is the Llandoger Trow, a pub in a 17th century half-timbered building, the 1880s. It marks the limit of navigation for any Philips Bridge, but part of it was redeveloped in 1900 right bank wasn’t much more salubrious. There’s little one of the last remnants of this style of building in a vessel that can’t pass beneath its arches. to create the tall red-brick building. This was the Bristol to show where any of these were, but the phallic- city once renowned for its early architecture. The pub Tramways generating station, where the power for shaped shot tower, now part of an office development, takes its name from the regular sailing barges that Bristol’s tram network was created. In 1940, the bridge was latterly part of the lead business here. This tower was bombed, cutting off the supply to the whole was a replacement for the world’s first shot tower came from Llandoger in South Wales. Tradition has it At Bristol Bridge, cross to Castle Park. that Daniel Defoe met Alexander Selkirk here and was network and putting an end to the trams. devised and patented by William Watts in 1782 on Continue through Castle Park, bearing Redcliffe Hill but demolished in 1968 for road inspired by his tales to write Robinson Crusoe. 59 Part-way round the path crosses Castle Ditch, the right to keep close to the water. remains of the moat that once surrounded Bristol improvements. 55 Close to the end of King St, back by the water, is the 57 Castle Park has been formed from the centuries-old Castle. ‘bomb hole’, part of Welsh Back that was damaged by commercial centre of Bristol that was destroyed by Cross the bridge and turn left into bombing during World War II and retained as a bombing in the Second World War. That centre (To avoid the steps at the end of the Temple Back. memorial. Alongside this is the Merchant Seamen’s developed on and around the site of Bristol Castle, 61 On your left, integrated into a new building, is the memorial, commemorating those who lost their lives next stage, turn left after Castle Ditch which had been destroyed by Cromwell in 1647. There bridge and right onto Queen Street, then façade of the Central Electric Lighting Station, Bristol’s sailing from Bristol. first generating station for electric street lighting. It are interpretive panels in the Park that explain its right again to St Philips Bridge). history. On the Harbour wall, look out for the large fig opened in 1893. tree, one of many alien species that have arrived with Continue on the path to St Philips shipping over time and continue to thrive. Bridge and up the steps. Cross the road carefully.

32 33 63 On the opposite bank is the site of Bristol’s last major 64 Temple Meads station was built in several stages. IK Turn right into Water Lane and then glass works, which closed in 1923, and the Midland Brunel designed the first, a terminus, and this is the left into Petticoat Lane alongside Railway’s goods warehouse. The Great Western stone building on the right at the bottom of the ramp. It Norfolk House. Fork left at the Railway maintained a stranglehold on the Harbour, opened in 1833 and closed to trains in 1965. Sir footpath in the gardens effectively barring its competitor from obtaining a rail Mathew Digby-Wyatt completed the station that we 62 This takes you into the gardens surrounding the ruins connection closer than this. Where you are standing use today in 1878. was the edge of the GWR goods yard, alongside of Temple church. As well as being a lovely place for a (From here you can join the Railway break, it has a connection with the story of the Temple Meads railway station and once the largest Harbour. In 1791 its vicar, William Milton, proposed a covered goods yard in Europe. route at 65 or the New Cut route at New Cut as part of the projected scheme. Jessop 69 or the Feeder Canal and River Avon adopted his idea in the final plan, but Milton had to route at 75.) wait nearly 20 years for recognition of his role. Head up the steps or ramp away from From Temple church gardens, exit to the water and towards Temple Meads Temple Rose Street in front of the station. Follow the route into the City Inn and turn left to rejoin Temple station booking hall, exiting again Back. Turn right and continue to through the main doors to the right. Temple Way. Cross at the pedestrian Continue to the bottom of the station crossing and turn left, back towards approach ramp. the bridge. On the right just before the bridge is a ramp leading back to the waterside.

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The New Cut – Temple Meads to Prince Street Bridge Cross the road at the crossings At Bedminster roundabout cross to keeping the water on your left and head the far side leading to Coronation Road, From the bottom of the approach road along Clarence Road. and then cross the Cut and turn left ramp at Temple Meads station turn left 71 Langton Street footbridge was installed here in 1883. It into Commercial Road. to Bath Road Bridge. Don’t cross the was used first as a temporary bridge at Bedminster 73 Bedminster Bridge dates from 1883. It replaced the bridge! whilst a new one was built. Then two barges were cast-iron Harford’s Bridge that had been built to carry brought underneath it and, as the tide in the New Cut 69 When the New Cut was constructed, two new highway the Bedminster road over the Cut in 1809. It was rose, these lifted it clear of its base. The barges were doubled with a concrete bridge in the 1960s. bridges were installed, one here (Hill’s Bridge) and then towed upstream and repositioned so that the another at Bedminster (Harford’s). Both were cast iron bridge settled into its new position as the tide ebbed. and supplied by the Coalbrookdale Company. In 1855 Continue to the end of Commercial Road the coal barge John collided with Hill’s Bridge, Cross the bridge and turn right along resulting in its collapse and the death of two people. York Road. 74 The fixed swing bridge at the end of Commercial Road The present bridge was built in the 1880s and another spans the former lock entrance into Bathurst Basin. was built alongside to double its capacity in the 1960s. (Note: there are steps on the bridge. The alternative flat This lock enabled smaller craft to bypass the route is along Clarence Road to the Bedminster round- Cumberland Basin system and enter or leave the 70 From the bridge, looking east, you can see the major about.) railway bridge that carries all the southbound traffic of Harbour nearer to their likely berths. It was blocked at Bristol’s busy railway system. This bridge was 72 The Victorian buildings along York Road are remarkable the beginning of the Second World War to stop the reconstructed in the 1930s as part of a government survivals in one of Bristol’s longest-running Harbour draining if the lock was hit by bombing. The work creation programme that saw massive expansion conservation battles. Originally blighted by 1960s lock was permanently sealed in the 1952. of Temple Meads railway station. Several of the new planning proposals to drive a new major road through platforms are carried on the bridge. the industrial areas of Bedminster, the houses were At the roundabout, you can turn right reprieved but remained derelict until the 1990s. Their to reach Prince Street Bridge, or you survival creates a pleasant backdrop for the New Cut; can continue the New Cut walk from 34. compare them with the 1950s and 60s council developments on the other bank. 48 49 74 73 Then

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N D ODB WE YM OUTH R OA D E O AV W D BEL UE LE R R VUE D S V T NT M R E JO H ESCE A NS CR H L G L N E A B L The Feeder Canal and River Avon – Temple time this was the biggest galvanising works in the Meads to Netham and back Turn left onto Feeder Road and then world. Before Lysaght, the Acraman family used the At Marsh Lane Bridge, cross the water left at the traffic lights into Avon site for their Bristol Iron Works. This, too, was a major and then turn right onto the footpath At the bottom of the approach road Street. There’s a good view along the industrial undertaking, producing railway engines for alongside the Canal. ramp at Temple Meads turn left Feeder from the bridge. the early Great Western Railway and sectional ships. It 79 On your left as you travel towards the lock is Netham towards Bath Road Bridge and then left 76 Avon Street was traditionally associated with the was described as the largest iron works in Europe Recreation Ground. Known locally as The Brillos, the into Cattle Market Road. Go under the heavier industries in Bristol and the Feeder Canal (perhaps an exaggeration) in 1840. park is the reclaimed spoil heaps of the Netham railway bridge (see 70) and continue convenient extension of this after it was completed. Chemical Works, where alkali products such as caustic Continue along Silverthorne Lane, which soda and ammonia were made for a century after until you reach the entrance to the There are many accounts of the smoky, choking atmosphere that surrounded this area throughout the forks to the right at Lysaght’s Castle. 1850. There is little evidence of it today. derelict Post Office Parcels building. 19th century and well into the 20th. On the corner of In about another 150 metres, there is a Turn in here and, keeping right, walk 80 On the opposite bank, occupying the whole of the area the junction was one of Bristol’s many soap works, signposted footpath on the right. This now filled by an industrial estate was John Lysaght’s towards the water. neighboured by the Avon Street gas works, the first of leads to a footbridge over the Feeder. structural steel works. Here many of the bridges that 75 Here you can see the right-angled junction between Bristol’s coal gas production sites. This continued to Turn left off the bridge and follow the span the Harbour’s waterways, and many others the Feeder Canal, leading off in a straight line to the operate until the 1950s. cycle lane along Feeder Road. elsewhere, were designed and built. right and the Floating Harbour, off to the left beneath 78 On the opposite bank of the canal, just after the railway the railway bridge. The narrow junction once held stop Continue up Avon Street and turn right 81 Netham Lock marks the end of the Feeder Canal. It bridge, was the site of the Great Western Cotton gates that allowed the Feeder or the upper Harbour to into Silverthorne Lane. plays an important role in Bristol’s flood defences; the factory. The five-storey spinning mill was demolished be drained for maintenance. Turn back to the road. In lock gates here ensure that extreme high spring tides 77 About 150 m along here you will be confronted by in the late 1960s, but there are still remnants of the the bushes on your left was once Calcraft (later that come over Netham weir do not enter the city, and Lysaght’s Castle, a Victorian Gothic fantasy office weaving sheds in the industrial estate. The factory was Totterdown) Lock, which allowed barges and smaller that flood water from the inland river in spate are building designed for John Lysaght, whose works the biggest cotton factory outside the north-west and vessels to lock in and out of the New Cut. You’ll see the similarly excluded. occupied all of the land on the left that you have thrived from 1837 until the 1920s, employing about remains of the lock at the end of this section of the passed and more beyond. Lysaght made his fortune 1000 people from Barton Hill. trail. galvanising corrugated iron and shipping this from Bristol to the developing colonies for building. At one

54 55 From Netham lock, return to Feeder At the Causeway roundabout, use the (As a diversion, the footbridge leads to The Avon Walkway emerges on Cattle Road and cross at the lights. Turn left footpath on the near side to cross the Bath Road, via Edward Street and Market Road, opposite the starting to cross the road bridge and turn right bridge. On the far side of the bridge emerges next to the entrance to Arnos point of this trail. From here you can into Whitby Road. About 50 metres turn right onto the Avon Walkway path. Vale Cemetery and Paintworks. return to Temple Meads and pick up along on the right is a good view of 83 The Walkway follows the unaltered stretch of the river Otherwise, stay with the Walkway, other routes at 65 or continue to Netham weir, down a half-hidden path between Netham weir and Totterdown lock, where the which gives a good view of the follow the New Cut from Bath Road behind the advertising hoarding. New Cut connects. The river is tidal and, although there Paintworks estate.) Bridge at 69. are few man-made features, you can get a glimpse of 82 Netham weir governs the mean depth of the Floating 85 The Paintworks was the base for Colthurst & Harding, various flora and fauna the live here. It’s a really Harbour. Excess water spills over the top, but at times one of the numerous paint manufacturers based in peaceful part of the Harbour’s waterways. Look out in of high spring tides the weir is covered and the current Bristol, as well as a wide range of small-scale particular for the grey wagtails, cormorants, gulls, and is reversed for a few hours. The river Avon remains businesses established after the Second World War on occasional herons and kingfishers that live here. tidal at these tides as far as Hanham, a further three the industrial estate. The estate is being redeveloped miles inland. 84 You start in Sparke Evans Park, a public garden as a centre for creative industries. Just before the road presented to Bristolians by PF Sparke Evans in 1902. bridge on the opposite bank was the former boatyard Taking great care on this busy road, He had made his money from the leather trade in the of the Brown family who maintained barges here until cross to the other side. Continue city, particularly in sole leather for shoes. The park the 1960s. At low tide you can see the tidal slipway along Whitby Road to the roundabout gained a reputation for roses, because the level of soot where barges were inspected. from industry and railways locally helped to keep them with St Philips Causeway, past a 86 The Walkway continues past the Dog’s Home on Albert pest-free. The park was connected to Brislington by a rather spiritless stretch of industrial Road and the railway bridge (the footpath over which footbridge. estate called Pioneer Park. This was takes you to Three Lamps and Totterdown). Eventually the base for many of the factories run the path passes the remains of the Calcraft by the Bristol branch of the Co- (Totterdown) Lock. By the Second World War, very few vessels were using these locks, and they were blocked operative Society. to avoid bomb damage emptying the Harbour.

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58 Then Today 59 This trail was devised and written by Museum of Bristol Project staff as part of Floating Harbour 200, a celebration of the bicentenary of the Harbour in 2009. Contact [email protected] to suggest improvements or additions. The historic images all come from the collections held by Bristol Museums Galleries & Archives. They are a tiny selection from over 3000 images of the Harbour. These can be seen by appointment only at the moment but will be available online in the future. The modern photographs were produced by Chris Bahn and the booklet was designed by Naomi Winter, both of Bristol City Council. For further information about the history of the Harbour see the book 'Bristol's Floating Harbour: The First 200 Years' by Peter Malpass and Andy King (Redcliffe Press 2009) or go to www.bristolfloatingharbour.org.uk.

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