Created following the passing of the Regent's Canal Bill in July 1812, to cut a new canal from the Grand Junction Canal in Paddington to Limehouse and the Thames. John Nash was a large shareholder; James Morgan its Chief Engineer. The canal opened on 1st August 1820 with a grand procession from St. Pancras to the Thames, with Morgan on the leading barge.
The canals were nationalised in 1948 and the Regent's Canal continued in use for long distance haulage until the 1960s.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Regent's Canal Company
1812: Construction of Regent’s Canal attracted Irish navvies & their fami...
We note that the plaque, twice refers to 'Angel', not 'the Angel', and realis...
A major 'gravity' sewer running from Hackney to Beckton. Mainly designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and the 'Great Stink' in the Thames of 1858. Our picture shows...
The locomotive building works of the Great Eastern Railway.The original shops were built by the railway 'King', George Hudson. In addition to the engineering facilities, Hudson provided accommodati...
Junior Assistant 2nd Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park,...
Ironmonger. Born in Stourbridge. He established iron works in County Durham, and was ahead of his time in the enlightened way in which he treated his employees. In 1705 he moved to Greenwich, to a ...
For an idea of what this area used to be like see this 1894ish map. It was all redeveloped following the 1928 flood. This block was desig...
Reginald Herman Tribe was born on 26 May 1881 in Chatham, Kent, the eldest of the four children of Herman Thomas Bedingfield Tribe (1855-1894) and Alice Mary Tribe, née Holder (b. c1860). His birth...
Bethnal Green was formed as a civil parish from the Bethnal Green hamlet in Stepney ancient parish. 1889 it became part of the County of London. 1900 it became a metropolitan borough. 1965 it was a...
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
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