Month: January 2010
A look at the McMurrays Canal sites around Wandsworth
Youngs Ram Brewery in Wandsworth, closed in 2006. The canal basin was sited just behind the works’ iconic chimney. Site of the canal basin within the brewery in 2013 (Permission was allowed by security to take these pictures from just inside the brewery gates.) A comparision between today’s scene & […]
Read More The Surrey Iron Railway's Wandsworth, or McMurrays, Canal
Allegedly claimed to be the shortest canal in London, but debatable especially with the modernised Grosvenor canal near Victoria, The sole reason for the existence of McMurrays canal was as a transhipment facility between barges and the Surrey Iron Railway of 1803. The Wandle is perhaps one of the better […]
Read More London's Three Canal Tunnels – Maida Hill/Lisson Grove access paths
Maida Hill has no towpath so one has to walk over the top of the tunnel via Edgware Road, then walk along Aberdeen Place towards the junction with Cunningham Place, where a side passage between a block of flats and a electricity substation leads to the top of the eastern […]
Read More London's Three Canal Tunnels – Eyre's tunnel (Lisson Grove)
Perseus is seen here approaching the west portal of Lisson Grove tunnel – another boat having just come through it. The steerer was Mike, who had worked for the London Waterbus Company for many years, and this was his last year on the waterbuses, it being 2002. He had joined […]
Read More London's Three Canal Tunnels – Maida Hill photo gallery
We now focus on the Regents Canal’s two western tunnels, Maida Hill and Lisson Grove A trip on the waterbus takes people along the attractive stretch of canal by Blomfield Road and under the Edgware Road through Maida Hill Tunnel – a view of which is seen here (below) from […]
Read More London's Three Canal Tunnels – Islington Tunnel
The western portal of Islington Tunnel. This location is just a stone’s throw from the very busy central London locations of Kings Cross, Caledonian Road and Pentonville Road Islington Tunnel was offcially opened in 1820. It is not spectacularly long, but is considerably lengthy compared to most other tunnels in […]
Read More London's Three Canal Tunnels
Three canal tunnels exist in London. Two of them are on the popular western end of the Regents Canal between Little Venice and Regents Park, whilst the third is the longest and travels under Islington The Regents Canal tunnels at Islington, Maida Hill and Lisson Grove Casual visitors to London […]
Read More Little Venice's lost aqueduct and the Westbourne River
The Kilburn Aqueduct and the Westbourne River There were just two aqueducts on the London canal system in it’s early days. Besides the substatial crossing over the River Brent near Stonebridge, there was also the Kilburn Aqueduct in what is now London’s Little Venice. This was a substantial structure with […]
Read More
Part 3 of the tour around London's waterway oasis
A tour around Little Venice Part 3 The Blue (and Green) plaques of Little Venice Generally Blue Plaques are those of English Heritage and the former Greater London Council. The Green ones are from the City of Westminster. Many famous people live in and around the pool area and elsewhere […]
Read More Part 2 of a tour around London's Little Venice
A tour around Little Venice Part 2 Brownings Pool is the largest feature and it is the junction of three waterway routes. It is named after the poet Robert Browning, perhaps a gentrification in defiance of the older name used by the locals and boaters which was Rats Island, but […]
Read More
Recent Comments