The Fruits Of Commerce And Industry, 1998
Wood, glass, plant material

Installed at the Reynolds Double warehouse Gloucester docks, Gloucester as part of the Sturge exhibition

And the two rivers shall be led to celebrate their marriage in the midst of an immense Amphitheatre beneath Sapperton hill - Alexander Pope 1722

The Stroudwater Navigation rose from low water in the river Severn to Walbridge Basin 92 feet 9 inches via twelve locks. From Walbridge to the Sapperton Tunnel the Thames & Severn canal rose 241 feet via a total twenty eight locks.

 

Framilode
Junction
Whitminster
Bristol Road
Westfield
Court Orchard
Pike
Blunder
Top of Five
Ryford Double
Dudbridge
Walbridge lower
Walbridge Upper
Bowbridge
Griffin
Ham Mill
Hope Mill
Gough's Orchard
Bourn
Beale's
St. Mary's
Grist Mill
Ballinger's
Chalford Chapel
Bell
Red Lion
Golden Valley
Bolting
Baker's Mill
Puck Mill Lower
Puck Mill Upper
Whitehall Lower
Whitehall Upper
Bathurst's Meadow Lower
Bathurst's Meadow Upper
Sickeridge Wood Lower
Sickeridge Wood Upper
Daneway Basin
Daneway Bridge

Elder
Marsh Bedstraw
Hawthorn
Lesser Spearwort
Hemlock
Bramble
Buddleia
Great Willow-herb
Hoary Plantain
Hemp Agrimony
Skullcap
Sheep's Sorrel
Bristly Oxtongue
Beech
Lesser Burdock
Dog Rose
Ragwort
Hazel
Meadow Sweet
Lords and Ladies
Tricholoma Ustatoides
Meadow Cranesbill
Dandelion
Dock
Hogweed
Woody Nightshade
Reed
Goats Beard
Figwort
Greater Burdock
Sedge
Ash
Marsh Thistle
Smooth Sow Thistle
Wild Oats
Tree Ear
Sycamore
Spear Thistle
Travelers Joy

 

The Thames and Severn Canal was abandoned in 1933 and all traffic had ceased on the Stroudwater Navigation by 1941.

 

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