Browse Descriptions for: 6 O'clock Gin At The Glassboat

Order By:

Mac

Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 20/06/2026 18:27:00

A 120-foot barge moored on Welsh Back in Bristol's floating harbour, the Glassboat began life in 1924 as the timber-carrying vessel Yew Mead before being salvaged from the mud of the Severn Estuary and converted into a floating venue. Hauled out in the mid-1980s, it was refitted by Arne Ringner, who had intended to create a floating botanical garden but, after planning objections, opened it instead as a floating cafe and restaurant in 1986. For more than three decades the Glassboat was one of B...