Sentence examples for floating harbours from inspiring English sources

The ambitious plans became a reality after Mr Hughes built a Mulberry prototype in Conwy after proposing the idea of floating harbours to the War Office.

A spokesman for auction house Bonhams, which is selling the drawings, said: "Aware that capturing an existing port in France was next to impossible, Hughes first proposed the idea of floating harbours to the War Office during 1941.

There's a wide wooden deck from which to survey the lights of the floating harbour before going below again into her rattling belly.

The design featured rooftop gardens, a floating harbour pool, the incorporation of shipping containers into flexible event spaces and "slender" office and apartment towers.

He left his mark on the city long before becoming mayor, campaigning successfully to stop the council concreting over Bristol's floating harbour and spending a brief spell as a Liberal councillor in the Seventies.

On cobbled Narrow Quay, overlooking the floating harbour, it was built as a motel in 1966 (the adjoining carpark is Grade II-listed, thanks to a bit of classic honeycomb concrete).

Open daily, 9am-11pm (food served until 8pm); +44 (0)117 352 1151, www.thehbar.co.uk Right on the waterfront of the floating harbour, this is a former boathouse designed, it is said, by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

I like the attitude Churchill enunciated during the war after he was told in one of those civil service minutes that it was not really possible to build a floating harbour in the Channel (eventually Mulberry) where resupply ships could anchor in back-up to the invasion.

It was a combination of working with computer science at Bristol University on experimental next generation fibre connectivity in 1999, and the city rediscovering the asset that was slumbering in its historic but formerly derelict floating harbour, which was re-invented as a cultural asset for the millennium.

The remains were recovered from the Floating Harbour near Welsh Back earlier, Avon and Somerset Police said.

An £11m project is currently under way to replace Bristol Harbour's flood defences where boats from the River Avon access the floating harbour.