Needed to nip into town late morning, usually I take the bike but needed the car so went to the car park in Southgate Street. The four streets leading to 'The Cross' in the centre of Gloucester, are named after the gates of the City the Romans built as a Colonia for retired Legionaries in AD97. Prior to that it was a Roman fort established around AD65. Streets are Northgate, Eastgate, Westgate and Southgate and they all meet at The Cross.
Anyway, history lesson over. The car park overlooks one of the marinas, of which there are three, plus moorings along the stretch of the Gloucester-Sharpness canal.
This is one of the marina's which is surrounded by some wonderful restorations of the old dock buildings, mostly into flats, and not cheap flats at that! and council offices. Our former Member of Parliament was instrumental in developing the area, unfortunately he went the way of many Conservatives in the last election. He will be sadly missed by the City which he has done so much to modernise, develop and resurrect.
The extra shows a Google Maps birds eye view of T. Nielsen, a traditional boat builders and riggers. There is always a number of rigged ships in for repair, refurbishment etc.
Gloucester docks were the furthest inland docks in the United Kingdom but nowadays they don't have the shipping traffic that they did in the past. It's mostly narrow canal boats, pleasure cruises, private boats and even some boats that are home to the people that own them.