Likewise, the well-known photograph of 2250 on a train of close-coupled  four-wheeled carriages can be recognised as having been posed in front of some dilapidated factory buildings on the Stour Valley line just to the west of St. Vincent Street bridge.

Of course, nothing of these background buildings remains today. The old engine shed was demolished in the early 1930s, but the malt house remained until 1959 and some of the dilapidated buildings behind 2250 – amazingly given their condition in the c1878 photograph – were still standing, although derelict, when I last saw them in June 1964.

To be continued ...