Not exactly a photograph
This is the wharf/basin taken from a map of Newbury dated 1768 by a chap called John Willis and shows the inlet from the river (The canal wasn’t there yet.) Victoria park is just marshland.(The Marsh). There is a small brook running down Northbrook Street

Some of the pointers
5     Church Yard almshouses
6     St Nicolas church
8     The Globe Inn
12     The Independent meeting room.     
17     Marsh Lane
18     Jack of Newbury’s House
19     Presbytarian meeting
20     The Rector’s house
21     The bridge
22     The Old Guildhall
23     The new Town House
24     The Little Lane
40     The Castle
41     Jack of Newbury Hotel
42     Baker’s Arms
43     Rose and Crown
51      The two Brewers
68     The Rising Sun

The Kennet & Avon canal was still in the future when Willis drew up this map but the Kennet Navigation had been open for almost 40 years - connecting Newbury to the Thames at Reading.  
The map shows how the wharf basin connected to the canal - totally differently from the recent proposal for the Wharf redevelopment.  The old basin entered at an oblque angle to the flow of the river/canal (very fast flowing in canal terms).  The recent scheme expected narrow boats to enter and exit the basin at 90 deg to the current - a nightmare  for the average holiday boater.

  I am 78 years old and my foster parents always called Victoria Park the Marsh.