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The Docks complex was developed during the fifty years following the opening of the Sharpness canal in 1827. The import of corn represented the bulk of the port's business at that time, and huge warehouses were built for storing the grain. Fourteen of them have survived, mostly now converted into municipal offices, shops and museums. In the southernmost Llanthony Warehouse, the National Waterways Museum (daily 10am-5pm, last admission 4pm; GBP4.95; ) completely immerses you in the canal mania that swept Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, touching on everything from the engineering of the locks to the lives of the horses that trod the towpaths. The three floors contain plenty of atmospheric noises off, videos, accessible information and interactive displays. Out from the main building you can practise "walking the wall" in the time honoured manner of boatmen, who propelled their narrowboats through the tunnels by their feet, and explore the boats themselves along the quayside.
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