Still continuing the waterways series. Gloucester docks are quite interesting. They retained commercial traffic until quite recently, in fact I think there's still some. The Gloucester canal is wide enough to be commercially viable, it by-passes some otherwise dificult waters on the river Seven. The wharves and wharehouses are protected buildings, and mostly they'd been adopted for recreational purposes even when this shot was taken in 1980, though, as is event from the barges in the foreground, there was still some commercial activity mixed in.