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An article reported in the Suffolk Free Press at the end of 1955. The image shows the newly-straightened section of river between the cut and the upstream railway bridge that limits the rowable section of the river. Previously, this section of the river meandered sharply in the wooded area now-bounded by the former railway, the cut and the new path of the river. The Press captioned the image: ‘The new river behind Priory Stadium, Sudbury. During the summer draglines have cut a channel 90 feet wide to the Stour a sweeping grandeur far different from the picturesque stream which wound its twisting way beneath overhanging willows less than a year ago. the arm of water branching off to the right is part of the old river, only 50 feet wide at this point and leads to the Stour Boat Club’s boat house. The course of the old river once passed to the left of the tree on the right-hand side of the picture, and a pillbox stood where the water of the new cut now flows.’ (‘Work on the Stour is well ahead of schedule’, Suffolk Free Press, 29 December 1955.)