Gloucester Docks: a Rope Trow

not a great photo, it was difficult deciding how best to capture it. 

This morning three of us headed over to Gloucester Dock area, mostly now an area for tourists to wander and spend money.  We entered a museum about waterways, the river Severn and Sharpness canal. As always an enlightening and fascinating talk and tour of the place. I found further information about the Trow, it rhymes with crow, and copied a small section below.  The Severn and canal played an important role in the transporting of goods into and out of the country, I had no idea how the system worked. A good day out with C, a few coffees, very little cake, and tonight too much wine. 

There was a simplified map of the waterways included in extras. 

Trows were tough little ships, capable of sailing the tempestuous tides of the Severn estuary from the ports of Bristol and South Wales, as well as on the river to Worcester and Stourport.