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Known as Merchants Quay since the 1980s when Merchants Landing housing was built. It was originally built as a wharf in 1876 and known as Upper Railway Wharf before becoming Bathurst Wharf.

Redcliffe 2 — A view of Redcliffe Church showing the old entrance to Bathurst Inner Lock (from a painting in St Mary Redcliffe Church) The current Spire was not built until 1872.

Bathurst Basin – Reece Winstone

Bathurst Lock Commercial Road Bridge 1825 Edward Cashin Bristol Museum — Bathurst Lock/Commercial Road Bridge – Painting by Edward Cashin 1825 Bristol Museum

Bathurst Basin 1862 to 1865 Reece Wistone — Bathurst Basin from the New Cut 1860s with Cardiff Landing Stage to the right – Reece Winstone

There is only a footbridge on the site of the Commercial Road Bridge.

Bathurst Lock c 1875 R W — Bathurst Lock 1870s – Reece Winstone

Bathurst Basin and Rail Bridge 1920s — Bathurst with Rail Bridge early 1900s

bathurst steam bascule bridge 1935 rw — Bathurst Steam Bascule Bridge 1935 – Reece Winstone

Bathurst Dam being replaced 1952 — Replacing the Bathurst Lock Dam 1952

The barque Echo 1875 R W — The barque Echo c 1875 – Reece Winstone

bathurst wharf 1870 rw — Bathurst Wharf 1870 – Reece Winstone

The Fanny Chapman 1875 R W — The Fanny Chapman c 1875 – Reece Winstone

Bathurst Wharf early 1900s — Bathurst Wharf in the early 1900s – previously Upper Railway Wharf opened in 1876

BRSRW.1045 Townsend, Alfred O., Bristol Docks — Alfred O Townsend 1904 – Royal West of England Academy

southam-4 — Bathurst Wharf, St Mary Redcliffe and Redcliffe Parade 1932, Steam-tug Cress hauls the barge Onyx on its way to the ICI works at Netham. (In: Lord, J. Southam, J. 1983, p. 26).

bathurstbasin1963nowmerchantsquay — Bathurst Basin 1963 showing what is now Merchants Quay – Reece Winstone

Seedboat racing Bathurst Wharf May 1977 – John Winstone

The lock was sealed off from The Cut in 1939 for fear bombing would empty the harbour.

Bathurst Lock Gates — Bathurst Basin Lock Gates with Commercial Road Bridge in background

When in 1868 work started on a new, larger North Lock in 1868 (‘Howard’s Lock’) the 1863 Jessop Lock bridge was removed, shortened and re-erected over the entrance to Bathurst Basin. This is now known as the Commercial Road Bridge.

Commercial Road Metrobus Bridge — Building the Commercial Road Metrobus bridge 2018

Commercial Road new Metro bus bridge 2018 — New Metrobus Bridge at Commercial Road 2018

The steam powered bascule bridge built in 1872 for the dockyard railway was replaced by the pedestrian bridge in 1964.

The bridge’s steam-driven machinery was fortunately saved and is held in the reserve collection of M Shed Museum.