The Limehouse Cut - first navigable canal ever built in London

Commercial Road crosses this bridge. There used to be a sluice gate here to keep tides out of Limehouse Basin - the grooves on the offside can be seen in the picture

Old factory adjacent to Commercial Road, at the time of photography much equipment still existed inside these buildings

New flats being built, 2001. Mooring pontoons now grace the frontage along here. There's a Lidl's superstore on Burdett Road

The Premier Metropolis factory, Burdett Road, Limehouse

'The Pier' or whatever! Useful observation platform for looking up and down the straight section of the Limehouse Cut

New flats and a small basin at Stainsby Road

The scene in 2001 before the new flats and basin at Stainsby Road were built

Another bygone scene from 2001 looking westwards, showing many of the later warehouses that existed between Burdett Road and Upper North Street. All of these have now been demolished

View looking west down the Limehouse Cut at Alphabet Square, showing the generous proportions of the waterway

Indus and Picton on a rare outing supplying aggregates to works at Violet Road where towpath resurfacing and a retaining wall was being rebuilt in 2001

NEXT: Limehouse Cut Part Three

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