Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - The Bristol Channel District Guide - selected articles - [1934 Edition] . . . .

without warning), and the provision of a steel girder bridge over the railway and a six-span concrete viaduct across the River Trym were other big engineering features involved.

Along the road, picturesque open spaces have been laid out for tennis, etc. Portway has been described as Bristol's Wonder Road ; it runs through magnificent scenery, and may justly claim to be the finest riverside highway in the kingdom.

We next note the Sea Walls (a lofty, shaggy precipice, protected by iron railings) to the right, and soon afterwards pass Sea Mills, where the little River Trym has its outlet to the Avon, and where nearly 2,000 years ago, the Roman galleys used to ride at anchor.