Any Muddy Bottom by Geoff Body

Author:Geoff Body
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750964111
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014-12-23T16:00:00+00:00

Low tide at Pill, looking across the River Avon to Shirehampton. In earlier times this little harbour would have been crowded with pilot cutters and the hobblers’ rowing boats.

Royal Portbury Dock

This impressive development, built over a five-year period from 1972 on a virgin site on the southern side of the mouth of the Avon, is rather outside the scope and purpose of this book, but needs brief mention because of its importance and for the sake of being comprehensive. Operated by the Bristol Port Company, it is now a major port and has the largest entrance lock in the UK. The lock’s 951ft length and 135ft width permit the accommodation of the very large bulk carrier vessels which bring in substantial numbers of cars and high volumes of coal and aviation fuel. Containers and timber are also major imports and there are forwardings of wheat and motor vehicles.

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