<meta name="description" content="Aspects of London’s canal system include Blow-Up Bridge, the Canal Museum, the Grand Union Canal, Limehouse Basin, and the Regent’s Canal." /> <meta name="robots" content="index, follow, max-image-preview:standard, max-snippet: -1, translate" /> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 15"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.places-places-places.com/CANALS.htm" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" /> <link rel=File-List href="CANALS_files/filelist.xml">  <link rel=themeData href="CANALS_files/themedata.thmx"> <link rel=colorSchemeMapping href="CANALS_files/colorschememapping.xml">  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='tab-interval:36.0pt; word-wrap:break-word'> <div class=WordSection1> <h1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center; line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><u><span style='font-size:17.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>CANALS<o:p></o:p></span></u></p></h1> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>See Also</span></i><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'>: </span><a href="HORSES.htm"><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'>HORSES Working Horses, Canals</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'>; </span><a href="THAMES.htm"><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'>THE THAMES</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>; </span><a href="TRANSPORT.htm"><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>TRANSPORT</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>; <a href="MENU.htm">MENU</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <h2><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><u><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>Blow-Up Bridge<o:p></o:p></span></u></p></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Macclesfield Bridge carries the south-eastwards continuation of Avenue Road across the Regent's Canal into The Regent's Park.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The structure's nickname derives from an incident that occurred at 3 <i>a.m</i>. on 2 October 1874.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>A canal boat called the <i>Tilbury</i> was carrying a cargo of gunpowder along the waterway for a quarry in the Midlands.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The vessel blew up.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Three people were killed as a result.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The bridge was damaged by the explosion.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Subsequently, the structure was rebuilt.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>This incorporated the previous one's vertical metal pillars.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>These had grooves that had been cut into them by the friction of their being rubbed against by the ropes that were secured to horses to enable them to tow barges.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>When the columns were re-erected they were turned around by 180 .<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>As a result, new grooves soon bookended the old.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>Location</i>: </span><a href="mapsREGENTSPARK.htm"><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>Avenue Road, NW8 7PT</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'> (blue, yellow)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>See Also</i>: </span><a href="BRIDGES.htm"><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'>BRIDGES</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <h2><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><u><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>The Canal & River Trust<o:p></o:p></span></u></p></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>In 2012 control of the national canal network was transferred from British Waterways, a state agency, to the Canal & River Trust, a charity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>Website</i> </span><a href="http://www.canalrivertrust.org.uk"><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'>www.canalrivertrust.org.uk</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <h2><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><u><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>The Canal Museum<o:p></o:p></span></u></p></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The London Canal Museum is in an old ice merchant's storage facility.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>Location</i>: </span><a href="mapsSAINTPANCRASOLDCHURCH.htm"><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'>12-13 New Wharf Road, N1 9RT</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'> (purple, orange)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>Website</i> </span><a href="http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk"><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'>www.canalmuseum.org.uk</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <h2><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><u><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>Canals<o:p></o:p></span></u></p></h2> <h3><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><u>The Grand Union Canal<o:p></o:p></u></span></p></h3> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The Grand Union Canal stretches 135 miles to Birmingham and has 101 locks.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It was authorised by the Grand Junction Act of 1793.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It opened to traffic in 1805.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>In the early 1950s tractors replaced the horses to tow boats up from Brentford Dock.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h4><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i><u>The Maypole Margarine Works<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></p></h4> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Above Norwood Top Lock the Maypole Arm (1913) ran north-north-west to link the Grand Union to Otto Monsted's (1838-1916) OMA Margarine Works.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Coconut oil was brought up from Brentford and margarine taken away.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It was Europe s largest margarine factory.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>At its peak, in the early 1920s, it was manufacturing almost 85,000 tonnes of margarine <i>p.a.</i>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Havelock Road runs across its southern end.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h4><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i><u>The Middlesex County Asylum<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></p></h4> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The Middlesex County Asylum stood in large grounds that were used for market gardening.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The hospital's canalside wall contains a bricked up arch that had allowed barges access to a dock that lay within the Asylum's grounds.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>This was used to unload goods and to dispatch to market the surplus fruit and vegetables.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>Location</i>: St Bernard's Hospital, Uxbridge Road, Southall, UB1 3EU<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h4><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i><u>The Slough Arm<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></p></h4> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The Slough Arm (1882) was one of the last canals to be built in Britain.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It was constructed in order that the brickfields along its course could be exploited to help the expansion of London.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Once the clay was exhausted, sand and gravel was extracted and moved along the canal.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Rubbish from the city was tipped into the excavated pits.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h3><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><u>The Hertford Union Canal<o:p></o:p></u></span></p></h3> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The Hertford Union Canal (1830) - a.k.a. Duckett's Cut - joins the Regent's Canal just below Old Ford Lock on the western side of Victoria Park.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It runs alongside the southern side of the park and provides a short-cut to the River Lee Navigation.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Otherwise canal hauliers would have had to use the tidal Thames, which would have only been accessible when the river was at the appropriate level.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h3><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><u>Old Surrey Canal<o:p></o:p></u></span></p></h3> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Towers at Forest Hill Station derive from when the site was occupied by a lock on the Old Surrey Canal.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The canal was mostly filled in and a track lain along it<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Burgess Park contains a half-mile strip of the Old Surrey Canal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>Location</i>: Albany Road, SE5 OAL<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h3><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><u>The Regent's Canal<o:p></o:p></u></span></p></h3> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Regent s Canal is an 8.5-mile-long canal that links the Grand Junction Canal at Paddington to the docks to the east of the City of London.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The scheme was developed by Thomas Homer.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>He planned it in co-operation with John Nash (1752-1835).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It was given legal force by the Regent's Canal Act of 1812.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Nash appointed James Morgan as the chief engineer.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Lord s was built with spoil from the excavation of the St.John's Wood canal tunnel.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Morgan designed the sub-Islington tunnel (1818).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>In 1820 the canal opened.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>There is no lock between Cowley at Uxbridge to Little Venice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Old Ford Lock (1820) is at the southern end of the western side of Victoria Park.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Kensal Green Cemetery has a canal-side gate that allowed access for funeral parties that came by water.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Steam tug was introduced in the Islington Canal tunnel.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>This was because otherwise the congestion cut into the canal company's earnings.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h4><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i><u>City Road Basin<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></p></h4> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>City Road has contracted over time.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>In 2010 it covered four acres.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Formerly it stretched beyond City Road and had a number of arms running off it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The canal carrier Fellows, Morton & Clayton owned a number of wharves at City Road Basin.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Pickfords owned property at the Basin.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The firm transported goods by canal.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The firm s competitor Fellows, Morton & Clayton was also associated with the Basin.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>By 1840 Thomas Pickford was operating 120 boats.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>Location</i>: </span><a href="mapsSAINTPANCRASOLDCHURCH.htm"><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'>City Road Basin, N1 8JX</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'> (purple, white)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>See Also</i>: </span><a href="WORKINGHORSES.htm"><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'>WORKING HORSES Canal Horses</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <h4><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i><u>Cumberland Market<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></p></h4> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The Cumberland Arm canal to Cumberland Market was filled in with Second World War rubble.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Redhill Street Allotments, NW1 (to the east of Regent's Park) were created during the Second World War.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Rubble was used to fill in part of the canal system that supplied Cumberland Market.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The Matilda Bridge between Camden Town and Regent's Park is over the Cumberland extension.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>Location</i>: </span><a href="mapsREGENTSPARK.htm"><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>Cumberland Market, NW1 3RH</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'> (red, yellow)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h4><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i><u>Limehouse Basin<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></p></h4> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The Basin was enlarged several times.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>In 1852 hydraulic cranes were installed at Limehouse Basin.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Until then it had taken a week to unload a single collier.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>In 1869 the river entrance lock was constructed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>A tower (1869) was built on the northern side of the Basin to act as an accumulator to power the cranes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>Location</i>: Limehouse Basin, E14 7JZ<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <h2><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><u><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>Narrow Boats<o:p></o:p></span></u></p></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Tom Rolt's (1910-1974) book <i>Narrow Boat</i> (1944) is credited with having inspired the movement that saved the canal system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <h2><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><u><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>The St Pancras Cruising Club<o:p></o:p></span></u></p></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The St Pancras Cruising Club is a member's club that seeks to encouraging cruising on Britain's inland waterways.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It was founded in the 1860s.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It has been based in St Pancras Basin since 1958.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Its clubhouse is in a former water tower.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Each January its members travel to West India Dock and back for their Caribbean cruise.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>Location</i>: </span><a href="mapsSAINTPANCRASOLDCHURCH.htm"><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'>St Pancras Yacht Basin, Camley Street, N1C 4PN</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'> (purple, yellow)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i>Website</i> </span><a href="http://www.stpancrascc.co.uk"><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'>www.stpancrascc.co.uk</span></a><span style='font-size:15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <h2><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><u><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>Speed Limit<o:p></o:p></span></u></p></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The speed limit on canals is 4 m.<i>p</i>.h..<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <h2><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><u><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'>Water Management<o:p></o:p></span></u></p></h2> <h3><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><u>Reservoirs<o:p></o:p></u></span></p></h3> <h4><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><i><u>Ruislip Lido<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></p></h4> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Ruislip Lido was created principally as a reservoir to feed water into the canal. The hamlet of Park Hearn was drowned in order to allow it to be created.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h3><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><u>Side Ponds<o:p></o:p></u></span></p></h3> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Where the supply of water was relatively limited side ponds were used as a means to conserve water at locks.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>If a barge was progressing down a canal they would receive water from the lock, if one was going up it would feed water into the lock.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>There are six on the Grand Union Canal between Norwood Top Lock and Hanwell Lock.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center; line-height:normal;tab-stops:14.2pt'><span style='font-size:5.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'> David Backhouse 2024</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> </body> </html>