The Grand Union's Paddington Arm
Part seven - Acton Lane to Westbourne Park
View from the towpath onto the Old Oak railway service sidings. Virgin trains no longer uses Paddington
The large gasometers at Kensal Green. The popular visitor moorings give the impression of being in the country
The Kensal Green cemetery lines the north side of the canal. Whilst the cemetery is not quite in the same league as Hampstead, at least it has quite a number of notables including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Charles Babbage. For a full list of the cemetery's famous residents see this list provided by Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery
Wood Hall & Heward tug dashing through the Kensal Green moorings
Old towrope roller at the bridge over Kensal Green No2 basin
Ladbroke Grove Sainsbury's visitor moorings at night
Sainsbury's in the daytime. Shiver me timbers - so this is where the pirates haul their booty!
The former Porta Bella dock, now another of those useless water features that people seem to like turning canals into. Whats all this talk of 'restoration' when this happens?
Houses aong the canal whose frontage faces onto Harrow Road. These are the only examples left in the stretch between Ladbroke Grove and Lord Hills Road
New flats being built by Halfpenny Steps. The houses seen are on Harrow Road itself and their view of the canal is only temporary
Goldfinger's Trellick Tower dominates the skyline from afar. Both tower and disued chimney frames the wildlife section of the Meanwhile Gardens that are an asset to the Golborne Road area. The gardens were established on derelict land in the 1970's
The 31 storey Trellick Tower was designed not by Auric Goldfinger but by Ernő Goldfinger. It was opened in 1972, and its unqiue style has made it a Grade II listed building. More information on Wikipedia. This part of the world becomes the focus of the Notting Hill Carnival every August and the floats can be seen preparing for the start of their tour around the carnival's ciricuit from Golborne Road
New flats alongside the canal approaching Westbourne Park. Small basins for residential boats have been thoughtfully provided
Paddington Arm - Part eight
Around Little Venice & Paddington: History and transport systems / Canute's 'Canal': The mythological waterway that wasnt / Croydon Canal: London's shortest-lived waterway, closing completely by 1837 / Cumberland Arm: A branch off the Regents Canal to Euston / Fleet River & Canal: The former Thames - Kings Cross waterway / Grand Surrey: The canal with an ambition to reach Portsmouth! / Grosvenor Canal: The Grosvenor linked Victoria to the Thames / Kensington Canal: The canal that became a railway and an underground route / London's Canal Tunnels: There are three canal tunnels in London / Paddington Arm: The Grand Junction/Grand Union from Bulls Bridge to London / Pudding Mill River: Requiem for London's lost waterway / Regents Canal: This runs between Little Venice, Camden Town & Limehouse / Romford Canal: The penultimate, yet unfinished, canal to be built in London / Ruislip Feeder: The former waterway that fed the canal / Westbourne River: The old waterway from Kilburn to the Thames / Woolwich's secret waterway: The Royal Arsenal Canal
Attractions near the London canals: Abbey Road / Bayswater / Crockers Folly / Derry and Toms / Edgware Road / Marylebone Goods / Nash Villas / Spitfire Works / St Pancras