Sit back, grip your seats and let me take you on a perilous voyage of man’s attempts to secure a reliable means of crossing the Severn Estuary. Two major ferry crossings, one tunnel and three bridges later, we may have finally cracked it. The magnitude of the task can be best summed up by famous civil engineer Thomas Telford…”one of the most forbidding places at which an important ferry was ever established…..”. If the passage was perilous, the service was little better. Nicholson’s Cambrian Travellers Guide of 1840 warned “…. the boatmen are, of course, rude in their manners, indifferent to the comfort of their passengers and well-practiced in the art of extortion…”. Come along to this presentation and be fascinated by the tales of fleeing royals, glorious failures and feats of cutting edge engineering.