“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 developed for industr...

In 1861 Philip John Worsley became the manager (on six months’ probation) of Netham Chemical Company Works on the banks of the Feeder Canal in Bristol. In 18...

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 clea...

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 across the tales of B...