At the Port of Bristol. Volume 2. The turn of the tide, 1900-1914

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The writer was retired Secretary of the Port of Bristol Authority, 1943-65. Provides a history of the docks [pp1-211] including chapters: '1900 - The world, the city and the port'; '1900 - the trade of the port'; '1900 - dockisation or a new dock?'; '1900 - survey of port events'; '1901-08 - the new dock'; '1902-08 - survey of port events'; '1908-11 - from parish to port'; '1909-12 - survey of port events'; '1910-12 - The summer festivals'; '1913 - pilgrimage to a spring'; '1913-14 - survey of port events'; '1914 - the trade of the port'; '1914 - war'. Also has '[46] biographies of the Bristol Docks Committee' [pp212-86]. Appendices comprise tables of statistics detailing import and exports and coastwise trade passing through the port and details of shipping lines using the port. Also has 1913 plans of City Docks, Avonmouth Docks and Portishead Dock