13 of us caught the X6 bus into Bristol to start our walk at the Pump House, the first of 14 places around the Cumberland Basin and the west of Hotwells.

We were fortunate as eager volunteers were in the Underfall Museum and some of us were able to ascend in the lift demonstrating how the hydraulic system in the Floating Harbour operated. There was also a vessel [the Svanskar - ed] winched up for refurbishment outside.

We proceeded past the disused locks and the used one, across the roads by the high metal bridge to our furthest point, the locked entrance to the lower station of the Clifton Rocks Railway, returning via Freeman Place and Albemarle Row to the Hope Chapel and Dowry Square, where we were fortunate to see a family going into the house once occupied by Humphrey Davey.