Beaumont Quay, off Walton Backwaters, Essex, UK
Beaumont Quay was one of several rural quays on the Walton Backwaters, Essex, to and from which sailing barges came and went carrying farm produce, particularly fodder for the horses powering London's traffic before the internal combustion engine. Fodder would be stacked high on the barges, hence they were known as "stackies"; the wreck in the foreground is the stackie, Rose, a 42-ton stackie built in 1880, which worked in that trade. The creek leading away seawards is artificial, dug in 1832 by the governors of London's Guy's Hospital which owned estates here. A stone quay, just this side of the small barn and not easily visible, was built of stone from the London Bridge which was demolished in 1831.
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