A newly-discovered letter written by Isambard Kingdom Brunel has revealed what the Clifton Suspension Bridge could have looked like without his guidance on its final design. The Clifton Suspension ...

The plans were revised by William Barlow and Sir John Hawkshaw, and chains were brought from the Brunel-designed Hungerford suspension bridge in London, which was being demolished. The Clifton ...

But Brunel didn't stop with the Thames Tunnel. Brunel loved building bridges. And here in Bristol is his most famous one of all. The Clifton Suspension Bridge. When it was designed, it was the ...

This is the finest collection of original source material on Isambard Kingdom Brunel (letter books, sketchbooks, calculation books, accounts, correspondence, diaries, etc.), his father Sir Marc ...

Home to Banksy, a hot air balloon fiesta, and Brunel’s SS Great Britain and beautiful Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol has become one of the UK’s most popular city break destinations.

The people who design and build them are called engineers, and one of the most famous is called Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He lived a long time ago, but we still use many of his designs today.