Work has begun to repair a 19th Century wooden pier. The 689ft (210m) pier at Sharpness Docks, Gloucestershire, opened in 1874 with the docks and some of its 36ft (11m) wooden legs are original.

A project is encouraging people to share their memories of a working dock as it celebrates its 150th anniversary. Set up to mark the 1874 opening of Sharpness New Dock, the Sharpness 150 project will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An annual midsummer sea shanty festival is set to be held on the edge of the River Severn near historic and a working docks. It is ...

A set of 70 tonne gates have been floated into Sharpness Docks, Berkeley, to replace those that have held back the sea for the past 52 years. The massive steel gates arrived by barge from Deest, in ...

A set of new steel gates, each weighing 74 tonnes and measuring 11m (36ft) high, have been craned into place at Sharpness Docks in Gloucestershire. The gates, which form part of the sea defence ...

From our Gloucestershire Correspondent Ken Goodwin: "The whole journey to Sharpness docks took several hours, crawling along at a snail's pace. At the docks the boilers were loaded onto a giant barge, ...