Along The Roding (Ilford) Navigation
This navigation is still in use - sort of. From its confluence at the Thames it is known as Barking Creek, a winding, tidal waterway....
The Roding (Barking and Ilford) Navigation
From its confluence at the Thames it is usually known as Barking Creek, a winding, tidal waterway. Once it reaches Barking it becomes the River...
The 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...
The 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...
The Kensington Canal – West Brompton to Olympia
View looking from the bridge at West Brompton to Earls Court exhbition centre two. The interesting aspect of this picture is the railway bounday as...
The Kensington Canal – Lots Road to West Brompton
The council highways depot off Lots Road, built on the canal's former alignment. The space between warehouses and railway (on far left) was the full...
The Kensington Canal – West London's navigation
The opening of the Regents Canal in 1820 and its success led the way for a canal to be built in Kensington. Lord Kensington desired...
The Grosvenor Canal
The former canal route from the Thames to Victoria The Grosvenor Canal was the shortest canal built in London. Its no longer in use, simply...