
Panorama of the River Avon to Portishead
This journey down the Avon gorge was filmed from the riverbank, from a boat and from the Portishead railway. Among views of the estuary, the cargo ship Vera and the fine wooden warship Formidable (then a training ship), Portishead docks and the entrance to the Clifton Rocks Railway. This underground funicular railway linked the town to the riverbank just below the Clifton Suspension Bridge. [BFI]
- Year: 1902
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Mitchell & Kenyon
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