Sightseeing in Gloucester As expected, it was raining heavily in the morning of 20th September. After breakfast, we headed for the Docks’ area. We walked past Victoria Dock, warehouses and restaurants etc and reached Llanthony Warehouse, i.e. National Waterway Museum. We entered the museum and saw a wide variety of engines, wheels, displayed horses, fishing tools and boats and cans decorated with flowers by sailors’ families, etc. We found it interesting to see the family boat with their possessions in the boat which was run by the 1960s – we saw a little TV, kitchen, sofa in the boat. They looked very small; we thought it was a miniature boat display and couldn’t believe that they were used by the real people. It was still raining, but we strolled through the bank of the museum to
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