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At Gloucester, boats and barges, carrying mainly timber and grain, could pass into the basin by way of a lock.

Once a whaling port, Kings Lynn in the late 19th century was handling coal from the North East and grain, and had a small inshore fishing fleet.

Grain and produce came up river from East Yorkshire, while coal, glass products, and minerals were sent from here both to London and the continent.

The maltings here at Pin Mill are a reminder of the days when grain was loaded into the barges en route for Ipswich.

Two ketches lie alongside the quay of Hockin & Co, timber, slate, coal, salt, manure, grain and lime merchants. Note the timber on the quay and seasoning in the water.

Here, Grains Gill tumbles over a series of cascades beneath Stockley Bridge, near Seathwaite in Borrowdale, with Aaron Crags prominent on Seathwaite Fell in the background.

These were removed and the glass roof substituted to provide adequate light for the grain dealers' rooms. The building also housed the offices of the London and County Bank.

The rates for grain from Australia to the UK varied between 22s 6d and 26s 3d per ton.

The enamel signs would make a modern bric-a-brac dealer drool, and the lorry is loaded with hessian grain sacks open to the sun.

The slipway indicates that the river was the main transportation method, barges bringing in grain from the northern and eastern wheat-growing areas and removing the flour to merchants' storage in Bedford

Over the next century this route formed the principal outlet for the timber, grain, wool and other products of the area centred on Guildford.

Over the next century this route formed the principal outlet for the timber, grain, wool and other products of the area centred on Guildford.

From the 12th century until Christmas Day 1806, large amounts of grain were shipped out of Alnmouth, and timber, slate, and later guano, were imported through it. Then disaster struck.

Traditional wherries were able to dock at the mill to collect its grain and flour.

Next to Page's we find Mr Simpson, a tobacconist, then Brunton's the pork butchers and Scott's the grain and seed merchants.

Thus a river port with the piles of grain along its wharves, depicted in Ward's 1835 painting 'A View of Henley Bridge', was transformed by the fashionable rowing fraternity and by an event that became

In the centre of the picture we can see the Star public house, owned by Brains Brewery - the local brew. The company was owned by Samuel Arthur Brain and his uncle, Joseph Benjamin.

The statue, the work of Benjamin Brain, a stonemason from Shirley, bears the inscription: 'As a permanent record of private worth and to honour a career of public usefulness - the fellow townsmen

It was reported in a 1906 Rambler Magazine that the Mock Corporation of Worston assembled there under the motto 'Brains Will Tell'.

They kidnapped one woman they encountered and ordered another to blow out her candle before they blew out her brains!