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...
Footbridges on either side of the Hungerford railway bridge. They replaced the single footbridge which was located on the downstream side of the bridge, and commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen ...
Since Tudor times this organisation was responsible for the drainage of the low-lying parts of the whole of the then built-up area of South London.  1848 - subsumed into the Metropolitan Commission...
Railway and civil engineer. Â Born near Newcastle upon Tyne. Â Son of George Stephenson who built "the Rocket" locomotive in 1827. Robert was Chief Engineer of the London to Birmingham Railway which ...
City of London Engineer in 1977 and 1982.
Built on a tributary of the River Fleet to bring clean water to London. Its precise location is not clear, but one source places it at what is now the junction of Snow Hill, Cock Lane and Smithfiel...
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