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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 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 in at Bathurst lock (74) or Totterdown lock (85), allowing the Britain’s tea came through 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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