The Regents Canal - Blomfield Road and Maida Hill tunnel
Warwick Avenue Bridge by Little Venice marks the start of the Regents Canal. There used to be a footbridge here at one time
The narrows by Warwick Avenue with the tollkeepers house
Jenny Wren at Warwick Avenue
Indus & Picton on a coal run while Micks Tug passes with a dumb barge for collecting rubble from Fisherton St (next to Lisson Grove)
Cruising along Blomfield Road towards Cafe Laville and Maida Hill Tunnel. The tunnel passes under Edgware Road. Maida Hill is the highest part of W2 at 120ft
Adjacent to Maida Hill Tunnel is Arthur Lowe's former home in Maida Avenue
Here's a rarity! A red canal boat and a red London bus viewed from the opposite side of the canal by Arthur Lowe's home. During the middle two weekends of November 2003 all the Edgware Road bus routes were being diverted via Blomfield Road. Here can be seen a pair of RML's (the rear bus is RML 2508) working the No. 6 route. During the same period the 187 route operator faced a stock shortage of buses, and for around two weeks the oddest collection of single and double deckers were seen working that route
Next: Lisson Grove & Marylebone
THE REGENTS CANAL PAGES:
intro / blomfield rd~maida hill / marylebone / regents park / marks crescent / camden town / camden market / st pancras~city rd / hackney~old ford / mile end~limehouse
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 / 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