How BRISTOL'S RIVERS shaped the city + vice versa: a brief summary of the last half a million years 

A fascinating history lesson with a dead-pan and dry humoured delivery that is most enjoyable. Please keep them coming!

Brilliant, I've been waiting for your second vid, as the first one was such an excellent mini doc on local Bristol history. This one is great too! I love your channel. 😍

Excellent. About 10 years ago we flew to Bristol from Béziers in France and back for 2€ each. We have happy memories of Fish and Chips behind the theatre, a Chinese and an Indian meal in one weekend, and following a walk around the city centre supplied online by the Tourist Office on one phone sharing a set of headphones romantically (no choice!). SS Great Something and home. Thanks 👍👍+1.

I once attended a business course where participants were told to read through a document before answering the accompanying questionaire..... around a dozen of us including myself, bearing in mind the short time period allowed, started to answer as we went along. One guy did however read to the last line which read "ignore all previous questions" I should have learned my lesson back then!! Thanks again for your work - I didn't even know about the Somerset 5 walls prior to your item although my brother-in-law used to play the game.

Awesome video. Great pics! 👍😁

I've also been trying to explore Bristol's rivers in this lockdown and your video is a ltieral godsend. Extremely well put together, thank you very much

Enjoyed this video.

Love this so much ❤

excellent video! very informative! many thanks for making it and for listing all your sources! At last, I found pictures and maps of how the rivers were diverted! I'm not native to Bristol but I love this city and I've been discovering its fascinating history for a while now. This video turned out to be so helpful with a lot of my questions! Looking forward to watching more of your videos! cheers!

Excellent

That was very informative indeed. I never could make sense of the city's river system when I was living there. Now, many years later, thanks to this film, I've gained some understanding.

Been working my way through your videos as I pack up our house in Southampton in prep to move to Knowle. Really interesting, really enjoying it - thank you!

An excellent piece of work. I'm glad you included the diversion of the Frome under Princes Street and the Floating Harbour, although it hadn't occurred to me that the reason was due to pollution - I had thought it was merely to decrease the through flow, thereby decreasing the amount of silt brought into the dock area.

Brilliant!!!👍👏👏👏

This is the second video of yours I've watched. Another great work. Really interesting history, and I like your maps!

Great video, mate! Cheers!

Love your channel. I used to live not too far away from Bristol. Have subscribed :-)

fantastic!

Very well presented and have to admit I enjoyed your sense of humour. Now finding out about Bristol after living here for 50 years. (bit slow.) Subscribed.

Excellent research and graphically well presented. Just discovered your channel and will view some of your previous ones. Keep up the work :)

Very interesting video and explaination of the Bristol's development around the rivers. I've been studying the older maps for a few weeks now, and this has gelled it all together - especially the Portwall Lane part of the moat. Thank you so much.

Great & interesting video as always. While I would certainly agree that the harbour doesn't feel like a _river_ specifically it certainly serves its purpose as a central, aquatic navigational point (or, I suppose, line) for the city. At the least, while in Edinburgh, I certainly found the lack of water in the city both noticeable and unpleasant. Even if obviously a harvour rather than a river, its function cognitively - as a waymarker & cultural point of interest - is identical to that of a natural river.

Very informative and answers many questions that I didn't even realise that I had about my (old) walk to work! Thanks!

Great video, but you missed an opportunity to mention 1960s(?) plans to fill in the harbour to make room for cars. This didn't happen (evidently), but we did get the Brunel Way road system around the Cumberland Basin.

Excellent research, video making and narration. The only items you missed, and I'm sure you did so deliberately, are Fosse Way and Castle Green culverts linking the underground Frome to the Floating Harbour by Castle Park ferry stop. The Environment Agency has access to Fosse Way culvert via an inspection cover behind the green gates opposite the point where Merchant Street joins Broad Weir. A couple of lovely EA blokes once lifted the cover so I could have a shufti.

I grew up in and around Bristol and love the place but your videos have really expanded my appreciation - do please keep them coming. Used to fish for sticklebacks in the Frome and always wondered where it went when it hit the town. Just one thing - do people really call it the Avon with the stress on the first syllable now? When I was young that was reserved for the cosmetics - Ding dong Avon Calling!

One little tip. Give after effects a go. Even if its just making small little lines grow or shrink it'll massively improve the quality of your graphics. Pirate it if necessary its very straight forward.

Thanks for this most interesting video. I do have a quick question..... At 09:40 during the shot of St Peter's church, the harbour wall shows two openings near the location of the new S shaped pedestrian bridge. Any idea what these openings are for?

Ok, I admit I clicked on this because in my haste I thought it said Bristol Rovers, but a fascinating video nevertheless!

A fantastically enjoyable and concise video. Thank you. As a regular visitor to Bristol, I have previously investigated the floating harbour in some detail. However, I am unable to find any mention regarding the eastern end of the new cut, specifically, the section where the north bound flow of the Avon was dammed off where Brock's bridge is currently sited. At the time, this must have been a major undertaking, but all comments about the new cut always refer to the western end. And what was the time difference between the Avon being dammed off and the feeder canal returning a flow to the original river. Do you have any further detail about this undertaking? Finally, regarding the pronounciation of the Avon. The welsh (pre-Roman) name for a river is 'Afon'. Presumably when the Romans arrived and asked the local Celts what the name of the river was, the answer provided - Afon - became the river's name. So in effect the River Avon is actually River River. This also accounts for why England has so many Avon rivers. So it provides a clear pointer to the original pronounciation which is A-Fon. Therefore it would appear that the company the make-up lady at your front door is representing has the same name as the River.

At first glance I thought it read, Bristol ROVERS ,shaped the city ! Yeh, that'll be right ! :0)

Great podcast. I sort of knew this stuff as separate bits of information, but enjoyed seeing them put together. Do you think French prisoners of war dug the New Cut, as I've heard?

Has the popular pronunciation of 'Avon' changed to suit the 'Avon Calling' advert of many years ago? I was born there and it always used to be pronounced as 'Aven'.

Bathurst basin should be renamed Hannah Moore basin

What exactly is a Floating Harbour?

Just being picky but it is pronounced AV-UN. AV-ON is a perfume company!

I do enjoy your entertaining (Basil Fawltyesque?) short and informative films but feel it worth correcting you on the pronunciation of ''avon' and 'afon' the first being the English river name NOT the perfume company... i.e. phonetically ay-vUn not ay-vOn.... a Welsh person would similarly be irritated by the wrong sound in their native tongue... i.e. aFon where the F is sounded as an English V = more towards aVVon…... Thanks for reading....and do keep up the otherwise good work 8¬))))

I love your content. Can i say that?