Pictured here in really what was the twilight of its golden age, the pier had long been the point of embarkation for daytrips to destinations along the Bristol Channel.
In 1887 Peter and Alexander Campbell decided to relocate their excursion steamer business from Scotland to the
relatively untapped Bristol Channel, where they soon came to dominate the market.
In World War II the castle was the HQ for Pluto - Pipe Line Under The Ocean - an operation which
ran fuel from Liverpool through Wales and across the Bristol Channel and eventually supplied the
fleet
In the
foreground on the beach
is a Punch and Judy show,
an evergreen attraction
which here appears in
danger of being swept
away by the boisterous
Bristol Channel swell.
by enabling
coal from the Forest of
Dean to be transported
across to Sharpness, from
where it was shipped inland
up the canal to Gloucester
and the Midlands, or
exported by sea via the
Bristol Channel
At Stourport, cargoes were transhipped between Staffs & Worcs narrowboats and Severn trows - these were sailing barges that operated to and from the Bristol Channel ports.
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