Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol

* July 19 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel's is launched from Bristol ; it will be the first iron-hulled, propeller-driven ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

An attempt to build Brunel's design in 1831 was stopped by the Bristol Riots, and the revised version of his designs was built after his death, and completed in 1864.

An attempt to build Brunel's design in 1831 was stopped by the Bristol Riots, which severely dented commercial confidence in Bristol.

The interior of Brunel's train-shed at Temple Meads, the first Bristol terminus of the GWR, from an engraving by John Cooke Bourne | J. C. Bourne.

Downstream of central Bristol the river passes through the deep Avon Gorge, spanned by Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge, the river is tidal and is navigable by sea going vessels at high tide but drying to a steep sided muddy channel at low tide.

* July 19-Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship is launched in Bristol.

Clifton is home to many buildings of the University of Bristol, including Goldney Hall ; Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge ; the Roman Catholic Clifton Cathedral ; Christ Church, Clifton Down ; Clifton College ; Clifton High School ; the former Amberley House preparatory school ; Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School, The Clifton Club ; and Bristol Zoo.

The station is on Isambard Kingdom Brunel's former Great Western Main Line running out of London Paddington to the Thames Valley, Bristol, South Wales and the West Country.

The last portion of Brunel's Great Western Railway line between London and Bristol to be completed was between Bath and Chippenham.

The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1 April 1979 from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, by members of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club.

* Clifton, Bristol, a district of the City of Bristol

** Clifton Down, a park in Bristol

** Clifton Down railway station, located on Whiteladies Road in Clifton, Bristol, England

** Clifton Suspension Bridge, a 1864 suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset

The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge which spans the Avon Gorge and links Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset, England.

The idea of building a bridge across the Avon Gorge originated in 1753, with a bequest in the will of Bristolian merchant William Vick, who left £ 1, 000 invested with instructions that when the interest had accumulated to £ 10, 000, it should be used for the purpose of building a stone bridge between Clifton Down ( which was in Gloucestershire, outside the City of Bristol, until the 1830s ) and Leigh Woods in Somerset.

View from the Observatory, Bristol | observatory on Clifton Down

Avon Gorge and Clifton Suspension Bridge, with Observatory, Bristol | Giants Cave

* Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust papers, 1829-1939 University of Bristol Library Special Collections

She attended Clifton High School in Bristol for a short time.

Alfred Hudd was an aristocrat who belonged to the Clifton Antiquarian Club of Bristol, founded in 1884 to arrange meetings and excursions for the study of objects of archaeological interest in the West of England and South Wales.

Until he was five, he lived in Colombo, Ceylon, but then travelled with his mother until the age of eight, when he was sent to school at Clifton College, Bristol.

In 1876 at age thirteen, Francis entered Clifton College, Bristol.

It is made up of bits of driftwood which he gathered from the banks of the River Avon below Leigh Woods, near the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol.

Opened in 1836 by the Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society, Bristol Zoo is the world's oldest provincial zoo.

He was sent to Brislington, near Bristol, to recuperate ; there he heard about the competition to build what became the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

* Bristol Clifton Suspension Bridge

* December 8-The Clifton Suspension Bridge across the Bristol Avon in England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and completed as a memorial to him, opens to traffic.

* The Clifton Suspension Bridge across the Avon Gorge in Bristol

* The Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel opens to the public.

However, there is one instance of a crinoline possibly saving a life, in the case of Sarah Ann Henley, who jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, in 1885 after a lover's quarrel, but survived the fall of almost because her skirts supposedly acted like a parachute and slowed her descent.

Notable places in Clifton include Clifton Suspension Bridge, Clifton Cathedral, Clifton College, The Clifton Club, Bristol Zoo, Goldney Hall and Clifton Down.

From the show's inception to series 26, episode 16, the city exterior is represented by Bristol, and well-known landmarks such as the floating harbour and Clifton Suspension Bridge are often visible in outdoor scenes.

The Clifton Suspension Bridge was opened in 1864 and provided an alternative route to Bristol ; in 1906 a swing bridge was opened to give access to Hotwells.

In 2003 the weight and vibrations of crowds returning from the Ashton Court Festival and the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta put such a great strain on the Clifton Suspension Bridge that the Bridge Trustees decided to close the bridge to all traffic, including pedestrians, for the entirety of the festival and most of the Balloon Fiesta in 2004 and 2005.

The Clifton Suspension Bridge, an icon of Bristol, crosses the gorge.

It was particularly associated with the leading engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who designed the Great Western Railway between Bristol and London, two pioneering Bristol-built steamships, the SS Great Western and the SS Great Britain, and the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

Where it passes through Bristol the river was prone to flooding, but the Northern Stormwater Interceptor, running from Eastville Sluices to the River Avon downstream of Clifton Suspension Bridge, has since been constructed to control this.

* A View from the Bridge, Rodolpho, Guildford, Bristol Old Vic, Strand Theatre London ( 1995 )

The GWR built a goods shed on the north side of the station adjacent to the Floating Harbour, with a small dock for transhipment of goods to barges ( though not to sea-going ships as the wharf was upstream of Bristol Bridge ).

On 11 March 1872, a direct connection to the harbour was made in the form of the Bristol Harbour Railway, a joint operation of the three railways, which ran between the passenger station and the goods yard, across the street outside on a bridge, and then descended into a tunnel under the churchyard of St. Mary Redcliffe on its way to a wharf in a more convenient position downstream of Bristol Bridge.

The Burlington-Bristol Bridge crosses the Delaware River, connecting Burlington to Bristol, Pennsylvania.

The Burlington-Bristol Bridge crosses the Delaware River connecting Burlington to Bristol Township, Pennsylvania.

The Mount Hope Bridge, connecting Portsmouth with Bristol, Rhode Island | Bristol, Rhode Island.

In November 2011 the navigation between Bath and Bristol was closed because of safety concerns about Victoria Bridge.

Bristol Bridge from Castle Park

The River Avon in Bristol, looking towards Bristol Bridge with Welsh Back on the left.

The club won the Southern Section Cup, beating Bristol City in the two-legged final in 1938, and when taking part in the regional London War League and Cup competitions, gained another honour by beating Brentford in the London War Cup Final of 1941 by 3 – 2 at Stamford Bridge.

alt = A green sign in the median of a divided highway reading to Pennsylvania Route 413 Bristol Bridge right 1 / 4 mile

The town developed rapidly after the opening of the Severn Bridge in 1966, which replaced the car ferry between Beachley and Aust and allowed easier commuting between Chepstow and larger centres including Bristol and Cardiff.