Waving at Watchet

An exhibition funded by the Royal Society of Mathematics. The trade between Watchet and Bristol was once important. Without the strontium from Watchet there would have been no glass industry in Bristol! What else of value in Watchet was moved to Bristol on the tides and why did the trade in goods and holiday-makers need to plan so carefully with the tides in the Bristol Channel. Come and explore the exhibition in our Lower Bar and make your own calculations like a sail-boat skipper of old as to when to leave Watchet and when you might arrive in Bristol.

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MV Balmoral moored on Princes Wharf, M Shed, BS1 4RN

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https://www.watchetmuseum.co.uk