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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> So while the facilities of the City Docks were progressively upgraded from the 1830s onwards the harbour retained something of the scale of the medieval port. This was of course a function of the old port’s decline; a melancholy but inexorable process which accounts for much of what is described in the following pages. The fortunes of the port of Bristol were as we shall see already deteriorating by the middle years of the eighteenth century. This can be attributed in large measure to the listless conservatism of the city’s governing and merchant elite and later the feeble management of the Floating Harbour by the Bristol Dock Company. More decisively however the nineteenth century port was condemned to failure by its own geography; as ocean-going ships grew in size there could be no future for an inland harbour which was approached by a lengthy and awkward river passage subject to a huge tidal range. For Bristol to enjoy anything like its former status a new port would be needed on the Bristol Channel coast. (LL)