Avon New Cut

After a gloriously sunny few days over the bank holiday, return to work on Tuesday marked by the arrival of torrential rain in Bristol. Here is the view as I walked into work over the Gaol Ferry Footbridge, across the "New Cut" diversion of the River Avon, south of the docks. Of course it was new when they dug it, but it was dug in 1804 by French prisoners of war from Britain's battles with Napoleon, so it's not exactly new any more; but the name stuck. The PoWs were locked up in the City Gaol very near here, and before the bridge was built in 1934 this was a ferry point, hence the name of the bridge.