Formerly, the docks and the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal were busy with exports, including lumber, citrus fruits, wines and spirits. Before being shipped to other parts of the country by rail or canal, grain was processed in Victorian warehouses, and the quays were at the heart of the UK’s furthest inland shipping port. The docks ceased to be used economically by the end of the twentieth century and are today busy with pleasure boats rather than barges or cargo ships. It is one of the reasons many people flocked to…
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