Brunel and the Underfall Yard, Bristol docks
The lesser known story of Brunel's involvement in solving the problem of silting in Bristol's floating harbour
Boat repairs by Waterside Forge within the Underfall Yard, Bristol,UK
Working on a new project within Bristol's Historic Harbour Kyle Blue soon to become a back packers tourist houseboat. Just doing a few plate repairs to the hull of this fine vessel.
Bristol Floating Harbour: 'The Underfall & The Overflow'
A visual and musical piece based upon research of the Harbourside, The Underfall, The Cut and Cumberland Basin area.
Music by musicians from The Synergy Collective - a Gathering voices project.
A Sounding the City project by Gathering Voices (gatheringvoices.org.uk) funded by Heritage Lottery Fund (hlf.org.uk)
Please credit both Gathering Voices and Heritage Lottery Fund if you share and link to both organisation's websites.
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Places to see in ( Bristol - UK )
Places to see in ( Bristol - UK )
Bristol is a city straddling the River Avon in the southwest of England with a prosperous maritime history. Its former city-centre port is now a cultural hub, the Harbourside, where the M Shed museum explores local social and industrial heritage. The harbour's 19th-century warehouses now contain restaurants, shops and cultural institutions such as contemporary art gallery The Arnolfini.
Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.
Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the U.K.- the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. The city has two universities, the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road, rail, sea and air by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32), Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations, and Bristol Airport.
One of the UK's most popular tourist destinations, Bristol was selected in 2009 as one of the world's top ten cities by international travel publishers Dorling Kindersley in their Eyewitness series of travel guides. The Sunday Times named it as the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, and Bristol also won the EU's European Green Capital Award in 2015.
Alot to see in ( Bristol - UK ) such as :
SS Great Britain
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Bristol Zoo
Cabot Tower, Bristol
St Mary Redcliffe
Bristol Harbour
Wild Place Project
Queen Square, Bristol
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
Blaise Hamlet
Arnolfini
Blaise Castle Estate
Red Lodge Museum, Bristol
Brandon Hill, Bristol
Georgian House, Bristol
Tyntesfield
College Green, Bristol
Royal West of England Academy
Underfall Yard
Glenside Museum
Avon Valley Railway
Temple Church, Bristol
Victoria Rooms, Bristol
Kennet and Avon Canal
Dyrham Park
Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve
Noah's Ark Zoo Farm
Bristol Aquarium
Bristol Cathedral
M Shed
Caldicot Castle
The Bearpit
Avon Gorge
University of Bristol Botanic Garden
Ashton Court Estate
Durdham Down
Clifton Down
Victoria Park, Bristol
Eastville Park
St Andrews Park
Wills Memorial Building
Clifton Observatory
Stanton Drew stone circles
St George Park
Rainbow Casino
Christmas Steps, Bristol
Berkeley Square, Bristol
Greville Smyth Park
Upfest
Redcliffe Caves
( Bristol - UK) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Bristol . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Bristol - UK
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Bristol in 2 days including Brunel's Clifton Suspension bridge and the amazing SS Great Britain
Bristol in 3 days including the history of the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the Avon gorge, the Pump room spa, Rocks railway site, the locks to keep things Ship shape and Bristol fashion, Bristol street art graffiti project in Nelson Street, Broadmead shopping precinct, @Bristol, centre promenade at night, Bristol's floating harbour, locks and Brunel's wrought iron swing bridge, the Underfall yard, inside the SS Great Britain, Fairbeam's steam crane, the M-shed museum, The Chaotic Pendulum, Bristol Byzantine, the water ferry system and Foster's Almshouses.
Day-to-night timelapse across Bristol Harbour, 3 July 2010
A day-to-night timelapse video taken across Bristol (UK) Harbour toward an area of the dock called Underfall Yard, over a period of several hours. The time-lapse setting was at 1 frame per second, so in effect this is speeded-up by 24 times.
The background music is by Jim Savitt, called 'Awakening', here on Amazon -
Taken with JVC GZ-HM1 Camcorder.
Exploring Bristol's heritage
Mayor of Bristol George Ferguson takes us on a tour of some of the city's greatest heritage sites, including SS Great Britain, Underfall Yard and M Shed.
Looking down at Bristol's Floating Harbour - seen from Redcliffe Parade
Bristol Harbour:
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.
Netham Lock in east Bristol is the upstream limit of the harbour. Beyond the lock is a junction: on one arm the navigable River Avon continues upstream to Bath, and on the other arm is the tidal River Avon. The first 1 mile (1.6 km) of the floating harbour, downstream from Netham Lock to Totterdown Basin, is an artificial canal known as the Feeder Canal, while the tidal River Avon follows its original route. Downstream of Totterdown Basin, the floating harbour occupies the former natural course of the River Avon, whilst the tidal River Avon flows through an artificial channel known as the New Cut. This separation of the floating harbour and the tidal River Avon allows boats in the harbour to remain floating at low tide, reduces currents and silting and prevents flooding.
Between Bristol Temple Meads railway station and Hotwells, the harbour and the River Avon run parallel at a distance of no more than 0.65 miles (1.0 km) apart. Downstream of Bristol Temple Meads railway station, the floating harbour meanders through Bristol city centre, Canon's Marsh and Hotwells. At Hotwells, the floating harbour rejoins the tidal River Avon, via a series of locks, and flows into the Avon Gorge.
The New Cut:
The New Cut is an artificial waterway which was constructed between 1804 and 1809 to divert the tidal river Avon through south and east Bristol, England. This was part of the process of constructing Bristol's Floating Harbour, under the supervision of engineer William Jessop. The cut runs from Totterdown Basin at the eastern end of St Phillip's Marsh, near Temple Meads, to the Underfall sluices at Rownham in Hotwells and rejoining the original course of the tidal Avon.
The length of the cut is approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km) and with the addition of short sections of the original course of the river Avon at either end, connecting Netham weir and Totterdown basin, and the Underfall sluices to the mouth of the Entrance lock at Cumberland Basin, the overall watercourse length is 3.2 miles (5.1 km). No ships have navigated the cut on a regular basis since the 1930s, but it is still possible for boats to proceed as far as Netham weir with care.
The Bristol Docks Company was formed to construct the Floating Harbour following the passage of an Act of Parliament in 1803, sponsored by the City Corporation and the Merchant Venturers. The engineer William Jessop had originally proposed a smaller scheme, which would have involved a shorter cut from Prince Street, near the city centre, to Rownham. However this would have meant that ship owners could have avoided using the new Floating Harbour and the scheme was amended to include a greater area of the river Avon, thus necessitating the longer cut which is in existence today.[1]
United States:
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America (/əˈmɛrɪkə/), is a federal republic[16][17] composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.[fn 6] Forty-eight states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.[19]
At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2)[20] and with over 324 million people, the United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area,[fn 7] and the third-most populous. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city is New York City; twelve other major metropolitan areas—each with at least 4.5 million inhabitants—are Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Riverside.
Matthew of Bristol
A Raspberry Pi time lapse of the Matthew of Bristol leaving Underfall Yard and returning to her berth on Princes Wharf.
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Bristol's Floating Harbour
A short-form documentary charting the history of Bristol's Floating Harbour
John R-B, Boatbuilder, Bristol Harbour , interview Luca Verducci
Interview with John Raymond - Barker, RB Boatbuilding. Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter restorations and new builds. Underfall Yard, Bristol Harbour. UK. by Luca Verducci.
The worst guide of where to live in Bristol
From Bristol With Love Radio Show -
Bristol Docks, The changing Face of Bristol
The ship that changed the world
Discover Brunel's ss Great Britain in Bristol - the ship that changed the world - in this promotional video which features on
Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Morwenna on her maiden voyage
This is the maiden voyage of the replica Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Morwenna, recently built in Bristol's historic Underfall Yard by RB Boatbuilding, specialists in traditional boat bulding. pilotcutter.co.uk
Bristol Classic Boat Yard
An insight into the creation of Pegasus.
Bristol Harbourside Alive - Explore and enjoy!
Explore Bristol's Historic Harbourside from The Fountains next to the Cenotaph to Underfall Yard near the Cumberland Basin, then across the harbour and return visiting Millennium Square and At Bristol and the whole Harbourside Alive experience.
On a sunny day Bristol's Harbourside offers an experience which support our world city!
Fixing Jeffs Houseboat.mp4
At long last we almost finished fixing the steel.
Boat coming up the slipway
Our boat coming out of the water to have the bottom blacked
SS Great Britain - Bristol
When launched in Bristol in 1843 by Albert the Prince Consort, the Steam Ship Great Britain was by far the largest ship in the world and was of revolutionary design that included an iron hull and screw propulsion at a time when other steamships were wooden hulled and Paddle driven.
SS Great Britain was designed by engineering genius I. K. Brunel, Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway for the Bristol to New York run - which it completed at the unprecedented speed of 14 days.
The dry dock which has become SS Great Britain's final home was also designed by Brunel for the construction of the ship - from which the ship could be floated out rather than launched. It continued in use for ship construction and maintenance until the SS Great Britain returned there from the Falkland islands in 1970.
During its lifetime the ship went through a number of refits and conversion to the Australian service. Its final refit was to a sailing ship and it ended its career as a coal hulk in the Falkland Islands where it was finally abandoned to the elements in 1930. It was rescued from breaking up and returned to Bristol for restoration in 1970.