Bristol in the Post-War Period

© ASOM. Many thanks to Alan for the provision of this fine view!

An early 1960’s view of the Cumberland Basin, showing the preliminary construction of the approach to the yet-to-be-built swing bridge. Two large concrete piers can be seen slightly to the left of upper centre of this view, with tall cranes at each end. To the right of centre of this view can be seen the now-disappeared Clifton Bridge Railway Station, with a footbridge over the railway lines. To the left of centre is the stone quayside, on which stand the Lock Keeper’s Office, and a small outbuilding, both of which have survived to the present day. Above these two buildings, across the harbour entrance, stands one of the what was then the Bonded Tobacco Warehouses, now converted to the Bristol Records Office in the 1980’s, when the tobacco industry largely left Bristol to relocate elsewhere. To the extreme left edge centre of this view, partially obscuring the bonded warehouse mentioned previously, is the end of Windsor Terrace, one of the prominent Clifton terraces of the mid nineteenth century. On the left bank of the river stands the Hotwells Landing Stage of the White Funnel Fleet, now disused, and in an advanced state of neglect, with the roofed shelter at the bottom centre edge of this view now removed.