19th - 20th September 2026 Have your eye-patches and hook hands at the ready! We are once again partnering with the High and Dry Shanty Crew for The Bristol Sea Shanty Shout 2026! Last year's event marked a major change for the event: Based at our boatyard, as well as SS Great Britain, with a ticket concert by our Visitor Centre in the evening, and it was a fantastic success! We can't wait to do it all over again with dozens of performances from shanty crews taking place across two days, giving all you pirate fans the best weekend [...]

17th to 19th July 2026 10 Years of Yard Fest: Underfall Yard's flagship summer festival - and we are planning our biggest celebration yet! Since 2016, Underfall Yard has gotten involved with the festivities along the harbour in July. Now, for the first time, we've been made an official location of Bristol Harbour Festival, as well as this year's charity partner. Live music, raving DJ sets and fantastic street food! Alongside the returning Sonic Sounds to provide the best from everything disco, funk, dub and more, we now have a fantastic line-up of live music. Enjoy stripped back performances [...]

Thursday 16th July 2026 Organised by The Steam Boat Association of Great Britain, this is an event to introduce you to the wonderful hobby of Steamboating. Even if you have no 'steamy' knowledge, you will be welcome to join us for a fun, easy going day of gentle learning and practical experience. The day will be centred at Underfall Yard and include a safety briefing, an introductory talk, a look at several different sorts of steamboats (no two steamboats are alike!), a slap-up lunch and then actual trips around the harbour in live steamboat(s). With Bristol Harbour Festival starting [...]

Sunday 28th June 2026 On 28th June, taking place on Baltic Wharf close to the Cottage Inn, The Dragon Boat Festival is a full day’s event with up to 36 teams competing in heats, semi-finals and a grand final. Organised by Bristol Breakfast Rotary Club, business and community groups come together in a racing tournament in Bristol’s Floating Harbour, all to raise money for chosen charities both nationwide and based in the South West. Underfall Yard is a fantastic location to watch the teams race all day long! Grab a drink from our cafe and take a seat on our Knuckle [...]

It's showtime! Take part in our ticket raffle for a range of events! Buy your ticket today! From 17th March - 6th April, Underfall Yard is teaming up with a variety of music and event venues in Bristol and beyond to give you a chance to win pairs of tickets to a show of your choice in 2026 - including two tickets to We Out Here festival this August! Taking part in our ticket raffle and being in with a chance to win means you are directly donating to the Underfall Yard Trust. Tickets to live music, theatre, [...]

Read part 1 of our deep dive into Bob Broome's diary here: https://underfallyard.co.uk/2025/10/28/the-diary-of-a-bristol-diver-bob-broome/ When Bristol diver Bob Broome began work as a Port of Bristol Authority diver, the City Docks were still a working port. With the advent of container ships, this could not last, and in 1969, Bristol City Council announced plans to close them. What would this mean for the future of the Floating Harbour? Should it be filled in to make way for a road system, as one plan recommended[1], or developed for leisure use? How much of the harbour infrastructure would be preserved, and how [...]

Take part in our naming competition for Bristol's newest bridge! While building works are taking place to reinstate the workshops lost in the 2023 fire, Underfall Yard and Bristol Maritime have worked together to install a temporary floating walkway for visitors to continue their loop of our famous Floating Harbour by connecting the Victorian-era docks maintenance workshops to the celebrated Underfall Cafe. To mark the occasion of inviting the public back to walk through the boatyard in full, we are running a contest to give the walkway a name. This name will be used for the duration of [...]