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© Mrs Joy Roddy LRPS
IoE Number:
380748
Location:
PATENT SLIP AND QUAY WALLS, UNDERFALL YARD
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Mrs Joy Roddy LRPS
Date Photographed:
04 August 1999
Date listed:
30 December 1994
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
II
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BRISTOL
ST5772 UNDERFALL YARD, Floating Harbour
901-1/41/1315 Patent slip and quay walls
GV II
Patent slip and quay walls. Mid C19, restored 1888. Granite
and Pennant rubble. 1 in 14 inclined slip with rails and
timber cradle on wheels, drawn by an electric winch. Quay
walls extend approx 50m along frontage of the Underfall Yard.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Built on land reclaimed behind Jessop's 1809
Overfall Dam, originally part of the c1850 Nova Scotia Yard,
purchased by the Docks Committee in 1880. Capable of raising a
load of 250 tons.
(Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-:
65).