Talk:Bristol Harbour

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[edit] Bristol collaboration / featured article

(Continued from a conversation on user_talk pages)

I was thinking maybe Bristol Harbour might make an interesting featured page one day. --Joe D 21:43, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I agree that it would be nice to have some top quality articles on local topics, though I must confess that I got some books out of the library with this intent a couple of months ago then didn't get anywhere.

I will give Bristol Harbour a good long hard look over the next few days and kick off some discussion on the talk page. I take it the scope of the article is meant to be the Floating Harbour - i.e. from Totterdown to Hotwells, post-1803. If that is the case I think we should nevertheless make sure that the appropriate supporting information about the Cut, the Feeder, the docks pre-1800, Avonmouth, Portishead and Portbury and the railway lines and so on is all in place. Some of this will also feed back into the main article on Bristol, as the port was for so long inseparable from the town.

Have you read Derek Robinson's A Shocking History of Bristol? That has a chapter on some of the less glorious aspects of the way the port was run over the years. I have access to a few other books that may be useful, too. --rbrwr^± 22:55, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I'm afraid I haven't read any books about Bristol, I wrote this article from things I've picked up along the way and from googled websites. I have a pile of recomended reading for university at the moment, but I'm sure I could spend a couple of hours in the library next time I have an excess lunchtime (next Tuesday). --Joe D 23:23, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, no help from me (in the nicest possible way). I'm too fixated on pics to do any text work from scratch although I often clean up articles. Obviously I could contribute pics to the new article - Adrian Pingstone 12:05, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] facts

The sand barge still used to come to the Sand Wharf in 1990; not 1981. I know this as a former resident of hotwells. I would change the date except I don't know when it finally stopped visiting.

Also, Wessex Water used to run another boat, (Glen Avon?) that used to run the other way, dumping sewage out to sea.

I may have photos of both of these, along with some of the flood in 1989/90, when a storm front pushed enough water up to flow over the outward gates and put some of the streets by the new cut underwater. --SteveLoughran 18:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC)