The canal that wouldnt go away! The houses in Thriftwood kept subsiding and eventually the cause was attributed to poor…

There is a myth about the Croydon Canal which is quite wrong. It is asserted that the only remains of…

The is some debate as to the exact route the Croydon Canal took after Forest Hill. Some possible evidence shows…

Forest Hill was an important location on the canal, with a wharf and swingbridges. Nowadays its just an urban crossroads…

The houses along Davids Road are said to be built on the bed of the canalLooking south east towards the…

Forest Wood was a quite large tract of woodland up in the hills above London. To give an idea of…

The top of the long climb from New Cross culminated in a staircase lock with a swing bridge across the…

This was the location at which the canal rose steeply on its climb to Honor Oak – no other such…

One of those quite rare stretches of waterway that have now become a road (this is however NOT a ‘rarity’…

This section of fomer canal route as far as Barriedale, is on land belonging to Goldsmiths College and is not…