About this minute
- Title
- 50 Atmosphere - Clifton Suspension Bridge
- Recordist
- Mathew Knight
- Location
- Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol
- Collections
- Bristol Collection 1
- Related resource guides
- Atmospheric Sounds , Cabot Circus , Echo
Bristol 1 #50
This Minute of Listening was recorded at the Clifton Suspension Bridge. An inventor called Sarah Guppy patented a design for a suspension bridge across the Avon Gorge in 1811, but she gave her plans to her friend, the famous inventor Isambard Kingdom Brunel to help him build the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Building work started in…