Emily Collins is a boat baby. She arrived on her parents’ narrowboat ‘freshly popped’ in June 1995. Jackie and John, Emily’s parents, bought a birth at Battlebridge Moorings in the early 1990s and lived there until Emily’s little sister came along, when they decided that living in such close quarters with two small children was ...
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The Regent’s Canal was opened in 1820 after some years of hard work, interrupted by scandal and by money problems that would be familiar to those managing large-scale construction today. The Islington Tunnel, 960 yards long, was finished in 1818 but difficulties over land on the eastern side held up the completion of the canal. ...
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Martin Sach is the go to man if you want to know about the history of the icemen who lived and worked in Kings Cross. He’s been running the London Canal Museum on the New Wharf Road for the last 20 years. The museum is home to one of the only surviving ice wells in ...
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