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As well as timber, Sharpness handled all manner of grains, linseed, palm kernels, cotton seed, offal grains and ground nuts.

At the head of the dock can be seen the large No 2 grain elevator; later, this was so much trouble to pull down, that it took nearly three months before it was cleared away.

In 1897 the Dominion Line began a weekly scheduled service between Bristol and Canada, with the result that the importation of grain through the docks expanded.

Wallasey Docks became the main grain importing area for Merseyside.

Although the railways were well established by the start of the First World War, barges such as these still did plenty of trade carrying grain and other goods along the Fenland waterways.

Here on the beach at the Isle of Grain smugglers would land their booty to be transported to London.

Of the church, only the Lady Chapel remains as a complete building, a result of its usefulness for storing grain after the Dissolution.

Fitted with labour-saving devices such as steam-powered windlasses and halyard winches, these big ships found employment in the bulk cargo trade; they carried nitrate, coal, grain, guano and timber

The harbour, run by the Gweek Company, was in past centuries busy with ships from Holland, Ireland, Germany and Scandinavia, loading and discharging cargoes of coal, timber, grain and stone

This idyllic scene hides a darker truth: Devon fell prey to an agricultural depression in the 1880s, and grain prices fell, causing thousands of acres of hitherto cultivated land to revert to grazing.

Grains Gill tumbles over a series of cascades beneath Stockley Bridge, near Seathwaite in Borrowdale, with Aaron Crags prominent on Seathwaite Fell in the background.

Vessels plied the waterway carrying grain, coal, malt and farm produce.

Despite the fact that coastal silt deposits have left Wells Quay on a creek over a mile from the open sea, the port was still functioning for the export of locally grown grain in 1965.

Boscastle's slate-built cottages cling to the side of the beautiful valley of the River Valency, an important route inland down which came the slate and grain that were shipped from the harbour.

Grains Gill tumbles over a series of cascades beneath Stockley Bridge, near Seathwaite in Borrowdale, with Aaron Crags prominent on Seathwaite Fell in the background.

In these days, square-rigged trading wherries such as this one plied the Broadland waterways carrying all manner of goods, from grain and flour to coal and timber.

The railway from Heacham to Wells was a lifeline for the export of local grain, vegetables, bricks and shellfish for metropolitan markets.

In the foreground, a paved riverside walkway lined with willow trees nowadays leads up to the Grain Barge Chinese restaurant.

This view looks along No9 Dock looking towards No 2 Grain Elevator.

The vessel moored to buoys against the far bank is probably unloading grain into a Town Mills silo.

We are looking upstream, towards St Michael's Church, from the old quay; until the 1950s, Thames barges delivered grain here to Green's Mill.

This ancient borough and market town is most famous for its fine-grained granite, which was used in the construction of Waterloo Bridge.

In the 18th century it was a port shipping out Hampshire grain in exchange for French wine.

This first one starts on the banks of the River Trent and crosses the grain of the county: the limestone ridge, the chalk Wolds, the flat lands between the hills and the knobbly coastal sand dunes.