The joy spilled onto East St as generations came together to mark the special and unforgettable occasion.

“My Dad worked on the canal, he used to bring horse drawn barges carrying coal, up through Hanham” Eileen

Two miles upstream from Bristol Bridge on the River Avon is Crew’s Hole (laying outside the Bristol conurbation), which started to be...

In 1861 Philip John Worsley became the manager (on six months’ probation) of Netham Chemical Company Works on the banks of the Feeder...

The life blood of Bristol's new industries The Feeder Canal was built through the rural countryside to the east of Bristol centre in order to feed fresh clear water from the tidal River Avon back into the Floating Harbour and to maintain the level of water in the Floating Harbour. From 1804 to 1809 over a 1000 English and Irish labourers worked in Bristol to turn a two and a half mile stretch of the original tidal course of the River Avon into a 84 acre floating harbour.  Exc

As we followed the path of the Frome as it arrives into Bristol from Eastville Park, along the M32 to the unassuming Junction 3 we came...