I do keep saying in my reviews that our tour through England is driving and walking through living history and a mighty and impressive history too, in a small country, but if you ask what have the English ever done for us the list would be extremely long and stunning.
The 200 year old docks area has been repurposed with the long damaging decline in trade by ship, decline in heavy industry and worst still decline in manufacturing. Look at Germany a powerful powerhouse of manufacturing (unlike the UK, German politicians subsidied some industry which proved smart ) that makes it hugely rich.
The UK direction by opportunist greedy political types with no vision, interest or long term planning for 50/75 years let manufacturers go to the wall. This has created a very large service sector that relies heavily on low paid staff that does not produce tangible sellable goods.
So the historic industrial port began to lose trade as the ships became larger and couldn't access canals and small docks.
Today, it's a fairly large and an impressive shopping and food outlet (service industry) with pubs, wine bars, all the usual suspects trading but the sympathetic design making it stunning. Worth a visit if you are close by and a 15 minute walk from the awesome Gloucester Cathedral that King Henry VIII stole from Catholicism. read more