London's lost canal

[Ray T]

 

 

[Heartland]

Surely there is more than one lost canal in London and there were other navigations such as the Fleet !

[Jen-in-Wellies]

27 minutes ago, Heartland said:

Surely there is more than one lost canal in London and there were other navigations such as the Fleet !

Logically, if some one has made a youtube video, then this one isn't lost any more. 😀

[Nightwatch]

Well, I enjoyed watching that. Loads of information and in my view well presented.

[Chris Lowe]

1 hour ago, Heartland said:

Surely there is more than one lost canal in London and there were other navigations such as the Fleet !

There are quite a few:

 

Kensington Canal

Grovenor Canal

Grand Surrey Canal

Croydon Canal

Royal Asenal Canal

Romford Canal

Regents Canal to Cumberland Basin.

 

Also depends how far out you want to include in London, Maypole dock and the Hyde Munitions works could possibly be added.

 

Plus all the river navigations

[koukouvagia]

Thanks for posting that, Ray.  We've lived in Rotherhithe for over thirty years and I thought I knew all about this lost canal.  Turns out that I found out lots of new, interesting details.

 

[Ronaldo47]

My understanding is that the Romford canal was "lost" because it was never completed, although a lock was built near the Ford factory, and a number of road bridges and the original London-Southend railway bridge over its projected course were all built with enough air draft for navigation. When the railway was quadrupled in the 1930's for the District Line extension, the bridge carrying the new lines was not built to provide this air draft.