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Its close grain made it eminently suitable for a variety of turned objects, and its pliability was much exploited in the manufacture of chairs.

Today, once away from these few houses, you cannot avoid the dominating presence of the Isle of Grain power station chimney.

The main cargoes brought into Ipswich were grain, barley, coal and timber.

Vessels plied the waterway carrying grain, coal, malt and farm pro- duce. However, the canal’s fortunes were never particularly good and eventually the western end was filled in.

The fine-grained elvan stone quarried here was once much in demand for the rebuilding of churches.

The covered hoist is a steelyard, used for weighing grain wagons from the early 17th century to the 1880s.

Set between the Thames and the Medway, Grain was once an island. Now it is connected to the mainland by road.

The covered hoist is a steelyard, used for weighing grain wagons from the early 17th century to the 1880s.

This small landing bay off the Thames estuary near the Isle of Grain is popular with fishermen and amateur sailors.

It was used at various times for fulling, paper making and pressing coinage, as well as for grinding grain. In the 19th century, it ground gypsum.

The Llanthony warehouse is on the right, housing Wait James and Company; similar companies would store salt and grain from all over the world, and even hire out sacks.

The maltings (centre) are a reminder of the days when grain was unloaded into the barges here en route for Ipswich.

The railway from Heacham to Wells was a lifeline for the export of local grain, vegetables, bricks and shellfish for metropolitan markets.

The diagonal chute pours milled grain straight into barges and wherries. This picturesque view has been painted by many artists, and is considered equal to Constable's Flatford on the Stour.

By the middle of the 19th century, the farms around Saffron Walden had largely converted from sheep to grain. The Corn Exchange (right) replaced the old Woolstaplers' Hall in 1849.

Since the famine and the ending of the restrictive corn laws, grain was largely an import handled by a number of merchants. The curved building on the left is brand-new.

The town is named after the grange, or storage place for grain, belonging to the monks of Cartmel Priory.

The tall silo above the granary fed grain down the chute and over the road into the mill. The chimney, silo and granary hoist have all gone.

The mound in front of it marks a kiln that was used to dry the grain.

The Abbey was landlord to the local farmers, and had the power to insist they brought their grain here to be milled - they were fined if they didn't!

Grain, slate and coal were once brought to Freckleton Naze, and ocean-going ships were built at the shipyard, which was established in 1814, but the big event of the village now is Club Day in June.

The mill could take advantage of the canal for carrying its grain and flour all over the country.

The overhanging lucam was used to hoist sacks of grain from a cart directly up into the bin floor. A brick arch to the right of the picture carries the London to Brighton main line railway.

From here, the grain barges would travel to London and return with cargoes of coal, helping to make Ware prosperous from the 18th century onwards.