This gallery contains a selection of images, paintings and old photos that we have gathered over the past few years. We have tried to show them in the order of the locations shown, starting at Stowmarket and heading down river.

001 Old Pickerel Foot Bridge, Stowmarket — An early engraving (1837) showing barges and warehouses.

002 Pickerel Bridge, Stowmarket — Pickerel Bridge, Stowmarket and Pickerel Inn

003 River Gipping, Stowmarket — Washing cartwheels by the old Pickerel Bridge

004 Navigation Wharf near the Gas Works — Navigation Wharf near the Gas Works

005 Malthouses and overgrown river. — Malthouses and overgrown river.

006 Station Road Bridge, Stowmarket — Station Road Bridge, Stowmarket

007 Boats For hire on the Gipping, Stowmarket. — Boats For hire on the Gipping, Stowmarket.

008 Floods near the Pickerel Inn — Floods near the Pickerel Inn

009 Gun Cotton Factory Explosion — Gun Cotton Factory Explosion in 1871

010 Gun Cotton explosion — Gun Cotton Factory Explosion in 1871

011 Gun Gotton Explosion — Gun Cotton Factory Explosion in 1871

012 Silk Factory — Silk factory

013 Needham Lock — Needham Lock – Last of 3 turf-sided locks

014 Needham Lock and Hawks Mill — Hawks Mill in the distance

015 Above Needham Lock — The river diverts to the lock and the mill above Needham Lock

016 Hawks Mill around 1870 — Hawks Mill around 1870

017 Hawks Mill around 1884 — Hawks Mill around 1884

018 Hawks Mill aoround 1930 — Hawks Mill aoround 1930

019 St Marys Bridge, Hawks Mill — St Marys Bridge, Hawks Mill

020 Crown Street Bridge, Needham — Crown Street Bridge, Needham

021 Bosmere Mill & Cartlodge — Bosmere Mill & Cartlodge

022 Bosmere Mill before restoration — Bosmere Mill before restoration

023 Bosmere Mill & Cartlodge — Bosmere Mill & Cartlodge

024 Bosmere Hall — Bosmere Hall

025 Creeting Mill — Creeting Mill Formerly Bosmere No.2

026 Creeting Mill — Creeting Mill

027 Creeting Mill — Creeting Mill

028 The Last Lock Keeper (1927) — Samuel, Elsie, Emily & Florence Ward

029 The last residents of Creeting Mill (1932) — Elsie, Les and Florence Ward

030 Florence, Les and Elsie Ward — Florence, Les and Elsie Ward

031 Creeting Lock and Florence Ward — Creeting Lock and Florence Ward

032 Creeting Mill and Fishermen — Creeting Mill and Fishermen

033 Above Baylham Mill & Lock — Above Baylham Mill & Lock

034 Baylham Lock around 1890 — Baylham Lock around 1890

035 Baylham Lock Around 1960 in derelict condition — Around 1960 and in derelict condition

036 Baylham Lock (1960) — Baylham Lock (1960)

037 Baylham (1960) — Baylham Lock (1960)

038 Baylham Mill — Baylham Mill

039 Downstream from Baylham Mill — Downstream from Baylham Mill

040 Shrublands Hall (A Davy engraving from 1837) — Shrublands Hall (A Davy engraving from 1837)

041 Packards barge - Annual Commissioners inspection — Packards barge – Annual Commissioners inspection

042 Packards barge in Gt Blakenham Lock — Packards barge in Gt Blakenham Lock

043 Gt Blakenham Lock — Gt Blakenham Lock

044 Gt Blakenham Lock & Mill — Gt Blakenham Lock & Mill

045 Gt Blakenham Mill — Gt Blakenham Mill

046 Gt Blakenham Mill — Gt Blakenham Mill

047 Gt Blakenham Mill — Gt Blakenham Mill

048 Gt Blakenham Lock — Gt Blakenham Lock

049 Claydon Bridge - Davy engraving 1837 — Claydon Bridge – Davy engraving 1837

050 Claydon Bridge about 1890 — Claydon Bridge about 1890

051 Claydon Lock & Bridge about 1890 — Claydon Lock & Bridge about 1890

052 Claydon Lock — Claydon Lock

053 Paper Mill Bramford — Paper Mill Bramford

054 Packards loading wharf Bramford — Packards loading wharf Bramford

055 Packards works around 1930 — Packards works around 1930

056 Packards Works — Packards Works

057 BramfordLock (01) — BramfordLock

058 Bramford Lock & barge 'Trent River' — Barge ‘Trent River’ leaving lock

059 Bramford Lock & barge 'Trent River' — Barge ‘Trent River’ leaving lock

060 Bramford Mill Before the fire — Bramford Mill before the fire

061 BramfordMill (02) — Bramford Mill before the fire

062 Bramford Mill after the fire — Bramford Mill after the fire

063 Ship Lane Bridge Bramford — Ship Lane bridge Bramford

064 Ship Lane Bridge Bramford — Ship Lane bridge Bramford after rebuilding

065 Ship Lane Bridge Bramford — Ship Lane Bridge Bramford

066 Ship Lane Bridge Bramford 1939 — Ship Lane Bridge Bramford 1939

067 Bramford Church - Davy engraving 1837 — Bramford Church – Davy engraving 1837

068 A view from the Church tower Bramford — A view from the Church tower Bramford

068 Bramford Church and Mill — Ship Lane Bridge and Bramford Mill in the distance

069 Bramford Church and Boat House — Bramford Church and Boat House

070 A Cottage in Bramford - Davy engraving from 1837 — A Cottage in Bramford – Davy engraving from 1837

071 Barge above Sproughton Lock — Barge above Sproughton Lock

072 Sproughton Lock — Sproughton Lock

073 Sproughton Lock — Sproughton Lock

074 Sproughton Mill — Sproughton Mill

075 Chantry Lock — Chantry Lock

076 Boss Hall rail viaduct 1901 — Boss Hall rail viaduct 1901

077 Boss Hall viaduct 1950 — Boss Hall viaduct 1950

078 Below Boss Hall - boats for hire — Below Boss Hall – boats for hire

079 Below Boss Hall — Below Boss Hall

080 Packards barge and tannery — Packards barge and tannery. Painting by Robert Gallon

081 Packards barge and tannery — Virtually identical to the previous painting

082 Barge 'Mersey' and tannery — Barge ‘Mersey’ and tannery

083 River Gipping and tannery — Tannery of W&AJ Turner in Bramford Road

084 Barge 'Yare' and tannery — Barge ‘Yare’ and tannery

085 Tumbling bay (Weir) — Tumbling bay (Weir)

086 Tumbling Bay (Weir) — Tumbling bay (Weir)

087 7 Arch Bridge and Weir by Thomas Smythe — 7 Arch Bridge and Weir by Thomas Smythe

088 7 Arch Bridge (later London Road bridge) — 7 Arch Bridge (later London Road bridge)

089 Handford Bridge Engraving by Davy in 1837 — Handford Bridge Engraving by Davy in 1837

090 Handford Sea Lock — Handford Sea Lock

091 Handford Sea Lock — Handford Sea Lock

092 "Bridge West of Stoke Bridge" Robert Burrows 1847 — Painting by Robert Burrows in 1847 showing the first railway bridge from Croft Street

093 Entrance to 'Alderman Canal' — Entrance to ‘Alderman Canal’

094 Barge on Alderman Canal — Barge on Alderman Canal

095 Power Station outfall (Alderman Canal) — ower Station outfall (Alderman Canal)

096 Power Station outfall (Alderman Canal) — Power Station outfall (Alderman Canal)

097 Boating on Alderman Canal — Boating on Alderman Canal

098 Alderman Canal (further upstream) — Alderman Canal (further upstream)

099 Alderman Canal (further upstream) — Alderman Canal (further upstream)

100 Head of Alderman Canal — Head of Alderman Canal

101 Alderman Canal (Handford Mill ,Oil & Cake) — Handford Mill (Oil & Cake)

102 Stoke Bridge - engraving by Davy (1837) — Stoke Bridge – engraving by Davy (1837)

103 Stoke Bridge and barges — Stoke Bridge and barges

104 Fully laden Barges — Heading down New Cut