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Trip to Gloucester

March 2023

We had a short break in Gloucester to celebrate our 24th Wedding Anniversary and stayed at the Hatton Court Hotel for two nights at the end of March.

Whilst there we visited the Gloucester National Waterways Museum and the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, both based in Gloucester Docks and the Nature in Art Museum & Gallery based in Wallsworth Hall in Gloucester.

National Waterways Museum

A trow - used as a cargo boat to transport goods
on the River Severn A rope outline of a trow

A Foden Steam Engine Petter 'S' and other stationary engines

Gloucester Docks

How a dredger works This mud dredger worked for 56 years on the Gloucester
and Sharpness Canal, the River Severn and Lydney Docks

Signpost to other famous canals such as Suez - 2295 miles away! Bogies were used on rails to help with loading/unloading

Queen Boadicea II, one of the 850 'Little Ships' used in the evacuation
of Dunkirk. As she had a low draught, she was able to reach the beaches
and made many journies ferrying soldiers to other 'Little Ships' and then,
on her final run, she brought 200 soldiers from the beaches back to England Llanthony Swing Bridge which allowed the passage of ships
to/from the River Severn, the bridge is now fixed in place

The Midland Railway Crane in Victoria Basin The National Waterways Museum within Llanthony Warehouse
in the Gloucester Docks Basin

Colourful barges in Gloucester Docks

Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum

The 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
winning the Battle of Alexandria on 21 March 1801 German Maxim Machine Gun captured by the
2nd Gloucestershire Regiment on the
Eastern Front in Macedonia in World War I

Reconstruction of Officer's quarters Model of Gloucestershire Regiment on parade

Nature in Art Museum and Gallery

Two photos from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition

Artwork made from recycled materials, including car parts

We bought this beautiful print of a redshank by Neal Griffin, the current Artist in Residence at Nature in Art

We stayed at the beautiful Hatton Court Hotel, Gloucester This was one of a convoy of 22-wheeled Heavy Equipment Transporters
we passed en route to our hotel, each carrying a 72 ton Challenger II tank


A trow - used as a cargo boat to transport goods on the River Severn	A rope outline of a trow

A Foden Steam Engine	Petter 'S' and other stationary engines


How a dredger works	This mud dredger worked for 56 years on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, the River Severn and Lydney Docks

Signpost to other famous canals such as Suez - 2295 miles away!	Bogies were used on rails to help with loading/unloading

Queen Boadicea II, one of the 850 'Little Ships' used in the evacuation of Dunkirk. As she had a low draught, she was able to reach the beaches and made many journies ferrying soldiers to other 'Little Ships' and then, on her final run, she brought 200 soldiers from the beaches back to England	Llanthony Swing Bridge which allowed the passage of ships to/from the River Severn, the bridge is now fixed in place

The Midland Railway Crane in Victoria Basin	The National Waterways Museum within Llanthony Warehouse in the Gloucester Docks Basin


The 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot winning the Battle of Alexandria on 21 March 1801	German Maxim Machine Gun captured by the 2nd Gloucestershire Regiment on the Eastern Front in Macedonia in World War I

Reconstruction of Officer's quarters	Model of Gloucestershire Regiment on parade


We stayed at the beautiful Hatton Court Hotel, Gloucester	This was one of a convoy of 22-wheeled Heavy Equipment Transporters we passed en route to our hotel, each carrying a 72 ton Challenger II tank