Bristol, The Docks 1953
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During the early decades of the 19th century, Bristol was losing trade to Hull, Liverpool, London and the South Wales ports owing to its high dock charges. In 1833 the cost to discharge sugar and tobacco at Bristol was double that of Liverpool. By the mid 1840s it was cheaper to discharge goods at Liverpool, and then transport them by rail to Bristol, that it was to disharge them at Bristol docks.
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