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3 unusual facts about Port of Bristol


Bristol Industrial Museum

On the same floor the story of the Port of Bristol was told with models, paintings and other exhibits.

Harry Nicholas

Born in Bristol, Nicholas worked for the Port of Bristol Authority until 1936, when he took a full-time post in the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU).

William Husband

At the invitation of T. E. Blackwell, C.E., he went to Clifton to assist in some works in the Bristol docks, when he planned a bridge for the Cumberland basin.



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Queen Square House, Bristol

Originally constructed in 1889 to the plans of William Venn Gough, as the Port of Bristol Authority Docks Office, it is in a richly decorated Classical style with a roof in the French Empire style.