Wallbridge lower lock warehouse

Helena and I drove up the valley to Brimscombe Port, the former inland port at the junction between the Stroudwater Canal and the Thames and Severn canal. It has been closed since the demise of the canal early last century but hopefully it will be developed before long when the canal gets fully regenerated all the way down to the Sharpness Canal at Saul Junction. The Cotswold Canal Trust has opened up one of the old business units which were built on the site of the port in the 1950s. They have created a secondhand book shop there and it turned out to be a good find.  We love books and have too many, and of course came away with even more. But I found a really good book about photography for 50p which would normally be about £15 . The prices were all good and all the staff in the place were very friendly volunteers.  They are making money for the Trust which is the main driving force in the redevelopment of the canal so we are very supportive of them and their objectives. They have done great work which has really changed peoples' attitudes to the restoration of the canal and encouraged a huge uptake in use and appreciation of the canal and its towpaths.

We popped into town on the way home as I needed to get  a couple of pictures of the last building on the Local List project. This old warehouse was originally built between the lower lock at Wallbridge beside which I was standing, and the Wallbridge canal basin on its far side at the lower level of the canal. The basin was built as a transhipment point for goods coming up the Stroudwater Canal from the River Severn. There was a smaller wharf about 150 yards further up the canal on the far side of Wallbridge Upper Lock and it too has an old warehouse, although that one is a Listed Building and so doesn't come within this project's remit.

I have been into the business using the upper floor but I'd like to see the ground floor as well which is less accessible. I took some detail pictures of several of the windows which have interesting Cotswold stone frames.