
Using a mixture of archive photographs and film, a 1963 colour film and contemporary footage, Port photographer Colin Comber relates the history of Bristol as a port, initially up the Avon in the city centre, and the subsequent rise of Avonmouth, Portishead and Royal Portbury, especially since the closure of the City Docks in the early 1970s. A map or two might have helped, but this is a good look at one of Britain’s major ports.