Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: dockyards

Here's the official entrance to the Albion Dockyards in Bristol. Established in 1845, Albion played a major role in the closing years of the British Empire, which was heavily dependent on shipping. The primary cause for its decline, as well as the decline of Bristol as a port, was that in spite of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's installation of a "sluice" system that pumped mud out of the Avon and its associated waterways, Bristol's port was too shallow for the larger ships that Brunel himself had contributed to promoting.