Underfall Yard's Power House is a landmark on Bristol Harbour. Print your copy here to see if you can brighten the place up! You are welcome to send photos of your work to info@underfallyard.co.uk to add to our gallery!

In Spring 2020 Underfall Yard taking part in Bristol City Council’s inaugural Learning Festival. Underfall Yard Volunteer Journalist Alex Taylor investigates. An array of local organisations are getting involved including: Arnos Vale Cemetery Brave Bold Drama Bristol Adult Learning Bristol Ferry Boats CALM Clifton Suspension Bridge GenECO OnSite PROPS SS Great Britain Underfall Yard Unite the Union University of Bristol   Underfall Yard is involved with three events during the festival.   Festival Launch event, 30th March, 11:00am – 2:00pm. Underfall Yard is delighted to be hosting the Festival’s launch event. This will take place in the yard’s visitor [...]

New for 2020, Underfall Yard is happy to announce a new opportunity for visitors to experience the yard's unique Victorian Workshop in action. Underfall Yard is a working boat yard and docks maintenance facility that has been in continual use since the 1880s. While the history of the yard and the development of the Harbour can be investigated in the visitor centre, a lesser-known jewel in the yard’s crown is its ‘time capsule’ Victorian workshop. This unique and evocative collection of 1880s forges, machines and the line shafting that drives them are once again operational. You are invited to [...]

Come along for a special evening of poetry centred on the activities, soundscapes, and history of Underfall Yard by the boatyard’s first ever Poet in Residence, Suzannah V. Evans. Suzannah has been at the boatyard since mid-July and will share material written over the past few months. She will be joined by the local Bristol poets Holly Corfield Carr and Jack Thacker. Refreshments provided. Please click here for tickets. Holly Corfield Carr is a writer and researcher based in Bristol and Cambridge. Holly makes poems, books, and performances for museums, galleries, and sites, including an orchard, an eighteenth-century crystal grotto and a passenger ferry called Matilda. [...]

The yard's Poet in Residence Suzannah V. Evans has been immersing herself in life at the Underfall.   ‘Like a man in a boat who is safe and sound as long as he stays within the boat’s timbers’ Bernard O’Donoghue, ‘The Boat’ I’ve now been working as Poet in Residence at Underfall Yard for a month, and it’s been glorious. I love loping round the boatyard and listening to its soundscapes: water lapping at the patent slip, chatter at Pickle café, the whine of drilling, boat masts clinking, the heavy breathing and footfall of morning joggers, the furious clanking of [...]

28th and 29th September 2019 Explore Bristol’s maritime past at Docks Heritage Weekend 2019, with events for all ages at Underfall Yard, M Shed and SS Great Britain. This annual event celebrates the important story of Bristol’s historic Docks, which were the centre of the city’s trade for centuries. Eclipsed after the 1920s by Avonmouth Docks, the last regular trading ship departed in 1974 and the Docks were closed to commercial shipping in 1975. Since then the Harbour has been regenerated into the leisure, residential and business centre that we see today.  This special weekend offers a taster of [...]

The Underfall Yard Trust is delighted to welcome Suzannah V. Evans as the yard's first Poet in Residence. An outstanding poet, Suzannah is a PhD researcher in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. Find out more about Suzannah's work here. First day! ‘You do just have to listen to the boatman.’        - Vahni Capildeo, ‘Inishbofin: II’  I first discovered Underfall Yard on an evening run around the city of Bristol. Reaching the tip of the harbourside, I ran through what I would later discover was a working boatyard, and was immediately drawn to the [...]