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The S S Great Briatin. The ship that changed the world. Designed and built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Now restored in Bristol Harbour.
National Historic Fleet, Core Collection
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Britain
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We were lucky to be able to enjoy a trip on this, the oldest Bristol built ship and thought to be the oldest surviving tug in the world. She is looked after by Bristol Museums Galleries and Archives.
The photo was a happy accident as I took a long exposure on the iPhone by mistake but I liked the result.
HMBT and HTM 😀
Photograph taken across Bristol Harbour from the site of SS Great Britain, a vessel built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the greatest engineers of his time.
I particularly liked the colourful houses on the top of the hill!
Bristol's floating harbour. Disappointingly it is named so because things float in it. Apparently when it stopped being a working harbour in the 1970s they were going to fill it in and put a load of roads through here.
Collett '1366' Class 0-6-0 Pannier Tank 1369 with hooded clay wagons on the quayside at Wapping Wharf, on the Bristol Harbour Railway on 6th October 1996.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
National Historic Fleet, Core Collection
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Britain
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Literally that - a shot of a section of a boat builder's workbench (complete with paint splashes and saw grooves) taken from above in Underfall Yard, Bristol
National Historic Fleet, Core Collection
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Britain
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Streetlights are diffused by mist rising from Cumberland Basin on an autumn night on Bristol's Floating Harbour.
One more from last autumn's misty nights on the harbour, as blogged here:
www.photocatalyst.uk/Blog/Autumn-mists-on-Bristol-Docks
Old dock cranes are shrouded in fog outside the M Shed museum on a misty night on Bristol's Floating Harbour.
Found art - paint splashed by a graffiti artist (or vandal?) on the side of the Plimsoll Swing Bridge at Cumberland Basin, Bristol Harbour.
Detail from a storage container on Bristol's harbourside - partially enhanced with a rusty texture from a nearby boat hull.
St Augustine's Reach a culverted section of the River Frome before it enters the River Avon at Bristol Harbour, Bristol, Avon.
It is approximately 20 miles (32 km) long, rises in Dodington Park, South Gloucestershire, and flows in a south westerly direction through Bristol, joining the former course of the river Avon in Bristol's Floating Harbour. The name Frome is shared with several other rivers in South West England and means 'fair, fine, brisk’. The river is familiarly known in east Bristol as the Danny.
Originally the Frome joined the Avon downstream of Bristol Bridge, and formed part of the city defences, but in the thirteenth century the river was diverted through marshland belonging to St Augustine's Abbey (now Bristol Cathedral), as part of major port improvement works. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the lower reaches of the river were culverted and the river now flows under The Centre into St Augustine's Reach.
As with many urban rivers, the Frome has suffered from pollution, but several stretches run through parks and reserves that sustain a range of wildlife. The power of the water was harnessed in many watermills and the area around the river mouth was developed as shipyards by the eighteenth century. As the city of Bristol developed in the nineteenth and twentieth century, flooding became a major problem, remedied by the construction of storm drains and diversions.
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My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 England.
Day seven. Luckily we made it time to check in before 11pm. We arrived at 10:58. Today we are taking a look around Bristol harbour area before making our way to Wales. We had a few heavy showers.
Bristol Harbour is the harbour in the city of Bristol, England. The harbour covers an area of 70 acres (28.3 ha). It has existed since the 13th century but was developed into its current form in the early 19th century by installing lock gates on a tidal stretch of the River Avon in the centre of the city and providing a tidal by-pass for the river. It is often called the Floating Harbour as the water level remains constant and it is not affected by the state of the tide on the river.
Love taking pictures of other togs in action! This one in particular with the tripod against the lines in the cobbles with the horizontal lines behind fitted the bill perfectly.
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 England.
Day seven. Luckily we made it time to check in before 11pm. We arrived at 10:58. Today we are taking a look around Bristol harbour area before making our way to Wales. We had a few heavy showers.
Bristol Harbour is the harbour in the city of Bristol, England. The harbour covers an area of 70 acres (28.3 ha). It has existed since the 13th century but was developed into its current form in the early 19th century by installing lock gates on a tidal stretch of the River Avon in the centre of the city and providing a tidal by-pass for the river. It is often called the Floating Harbour as the water level remains constant and it is not affected by the state of the tide on the river.
These six images, presented as a panel, are all details of metal sheets, offcuts, debris and equipment lying around Underfall Yard, a working boat repair yard and dry dock on Bristol's harbourside
Taken from the old swing bridge looking down the channel as the sun slowly sets casting a golden glow over the water.
Leaf sitting on frosty metalwork on Bristol's harbour railway during sub zero temperatures this week
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 England.
Day seven. Luckily we made it time to check in before 11pm. We arrived at 10:58. Today we are taking a look around Bristol harbour area before making our way to Wales. We had a few heavy showers.
Millennium Square is home to a BBC Big Screen and a large water feature. A bronze statue of Bristol-born actor Cary Grant by sculptor Graham Ibbeson was unveiled by Grant's widow in 2001. Other bronze sculptures include William Penn, William Tyndale and Thomas Chatterton, all three by Lawrence Holofcener. There are also a number of small painted bronze Jack Russell terrier dogs by Cathie Pilkington, some of which are set into the paved surface, as if they were swimming.
The Energy Tree, designed by artist John Packer and Bristol-based Demand Energy Equality, will provide free mobile phone charging points and Wi-Fi.
It has been built by Mr Packer with help from recovering addicts from the Bristol Drugs Project.
For More Info: www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-32392173
"Kaskelot" is a 1948 built three masted barque,seen here at Bristol Harbour in August 2016.
The vessel now resides in France,and has been renamed "Le Francais".