The Salters Cut (Gasworks Arm/River Chess) Rickmansworth
This was a 500yd cut opened in 1804 (or 1805 as some sources claim) and served Salter & Co's Brewery. The firm's director, Stephen Salter,...
The Royal Arsenal Canal today
Looking from the former canal entrance, across the coal pier, towards the Woolwich free ferry, the Thames Barrier, Canary Wharf and Central London. The flats...
History of the Royal Arsenal Railway
(The following section on the railway was kindly written for London Canals by Ian Bull of the Crossness Engines Trust) The Royal Arsenal's railways began...
The Royal Arsenal Canal – The waterway serving the Woolwich military complex
The Royal Arsenal (or Woolwich Arsenal) canal was designed by Lietunant Colonel Pilkington and built between 1812-14, and extended again by 1816. It had a...
The Romford Canal 6
Romford Canal - The final section The canal route passes through what is now known as The Chase nature reserve (Barking & Dagenham confusingly calls...
The Romford Canal 5
The canal route to the C2C/District railway crossing at Elm Park By these houses on Roosevelt Way, there is evidently a rise in the ground....
The Romford Canal 4
Romford Canal - From Rainham Road to Elm Park The canal heads slightly northeastwards towards Elm Park along a much narrower Beam ValleyThe crossing at...
The Romford Canal 3
'The lock' to Rainham Road A depression is obvious here, although there doesn't seem to be any trace of the lock chamber walls now, perhaps...
The Romford Canal 2
New Road to Beam Bridge lock Dagenham New Road bridge (the Beam Bridge) over the Beam River, once a busy main road but nowadays most...
The Romford Canal
A waterway that took 65 years to plan & construct - and unfinished! The first plans for a canal to Romford were seen in 1809...
