History
The City Docks Venturers, a non-profit making conservation group in Bristol, started a Ferry service in 1977. with the first of the ferry boats " Margaret" which had worked on the Avon between Pill and Shirehampton. In 1978 the Ferry service became a proper business, and later added the ferry boat "Independence "
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