The Regents Canal Following on the success of the Grand Union’s Paddington Branch, the Regents was opened to exploit the potentialities offered by water transport.…
Continue ReadingRegent's Canal – Mare Street to Limehouse
Gasometers near Mare Street, Hackney. Busy summer scene by Northiam Street. Boats and cyclists by Bonner Hall bridge in Victoria Park. Old Ford Lock –…
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London’s hidden canal aqueduct! Goods Way – where the unknown aqueudct is sited. Canal at left, railway at lower right. The location at which the…
Continue ReadingRegent's Canal – Camden to St Pancras
The canal at the top of Camden Market. On the left is the Pirate Castle. The entrance 2 the disused Dead Dog basin is on…
Continue ReadingRegent's Cumberland Turn to Pirate Castle
Towpath walkers and a waterbus at St Marks Gate bridge, near the junction from which the old Cumberland Arm began. At the end of the…
Continue ReadingRegent's Canal – Maida Hill to London Zoo
London Waterbus Perseus at the eastern end of Maida Hill Tunnel. Marylebone Wide from Lisson Grove Road with Beauchamp heading westwards. East Portal of Lisson…
Continue ReadingThe Limehouse Cut – first navigable canal ever built in London
The now demolished Premier Metropolis factory, Burdett Road, Limehouse Flats on the site of the Premier Metropolis factory ‘The Pier’ or whatever! Useful observation platform…
Continue ReadingThe Limehouse Cut
The first canal scheme in London: The Limehouse Cut was the first navigable artifical waterway (the much earlier New River was built as a water…
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