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.
An early engraving (1837) showing barges and warehouses.
Pickerel Bridge, Stowmarket and Pickerel Inn
Washing cartwheels by the old Pickerel Bridge
Navigation Wharf near the Gas Works
Malthouses and overgrown river.
Station Road Bridge, Stowmarket
Boats For hire on the Gipping, Stowmarket.
Floods near the Pickerel Inn
Gun Cotton Factory Explosion in 1871
Gun Cotton Factory Explosion in 1871
Gun Cotton Factory Explosion in 1871
Silk factory
Needham Lock – Last of 3 turf-sided locks
Hawks Mill in the distance
The river diverts to the lock and the mill above Needham Lock
Hawks Mill around 1870
Hawks Mill around 1884
Hawks Mill aoround 1930
St Marys Bridge, Hawks Mill
Crown Street Bridge, Needham
Bosmere Mill & Cartlodge
Bosmere Mill before restoration
Bosmere Mill & Cartlodge
Bosmere Hall
Creeting Mill Formerly Bosmere No.2
Creeting Mill
Creeting Mill
Samuel, Elsie, Emily & Florence Ward
Elsie, Les and Florence Ward
Florence, Les and Elsie Ward
Creeting Lock and Florence Ward
Creeting Mill and Fishermen
Above Baylham Mill & Lock
Baylham Lock around 1890
Around 1960 and in derelict condition
Baylham Lock (1960)
Baylham Lock (1960)
Baylham Mill
Downstream from Baylham Mill
Shrublands Hall (A Davy engraving from 1837)
Packards barge – Annual Commissioners inspection
Packards barge in Gt Blakenham Lock
Gt Blakenham Lock
Gt Blakenham Lock & Mill
Gt Blakenham Mill
Gt Blakenham Mill
Gt Blakenham Mill
Gt Blakenham Lock
Claydon Bridge – Davy engraving 1837
Claydon Bridge about 1890
Claydon Lock & Bridge about 1890
Claydon Lock
Paper Mill Bramford
Packards loading wharf Bramford
Packards works around 1930
Packards Works
BramfordLock
Barge ‘Trent River’ leaving lock
Barge ‘Trent River’ leaving lock
Bramford Mill before the fire
Bramford Mill before the fire
Bramford Mill after the fire
Ship Lane bridge Bramford
Ship Lane bridge Bramford after rebuilding
Ship Lane Bridge Bramford
Ship Lane Bridge Bramford 1939
Bramford Church – Davy engraving 1837
A view from the Church tower Bramford
Ship Lane Bridge and Bramford Mill in the distance
Bramford Church and Boat House
A Cottage in Bramford – Davy engraving from 1837
Barge above Sproughton Lock
Sproughton Lock
Sproughton Lock
Sproughton Mill
Chantry Lock
Boss Hall rail viaduct 1901
Boss Hall viaduct 1950
Below Boss Hall – boats for hire
Below Boss Hall
Packards barge and tannery. Painting by Robert Gallon
Virtually identical to the previous painting
Barge ‘Mersey’ and tannery
Tannery of W&AJ Turner in Bramford Road
Barge ‘Yare’ and tannery
Tumbling bay (Weir)
Tumbling bay (Weir)
7 Arch Bridge and Weir by Thomas Smythe
7 Arch Bridge (later London Road bridge)
Handford Bridge Engraving by Davy in 1837
Handford Sea Lock
Handford Sea Lock
Painting by Robert Burrows in 1847 showing the first railway bridge from Croft Street