Local historian, photograph collector and Voice reader Barrie Doney has no shortage of pictures and stories from Cornwall’s past, which he shares with Voice Newspaper readers every week.

This week’s photo sees us pay a visit to an important part of Cornwall in its heyday, with the picture depicting part of the once-vast docks at Fowey.

Barrie takes us to the ‘clay country’ for this week’s photo to a time when Cornwall was in its pomp as the clay mining superpower.

Barrie says of this picture: “Part of the massive docks at Fowey in its heyday. The houses in the background are in Mixtow. All of the railway tracks are buried or removed. It is now one massive area of concrete used by Imerys lorries, transporting clay.”