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...
Junior Boilermaker 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, Above Bar...
Steel producer, originating in Grimsby, and bridge builder from the 1920s. Nationalised and subsumed into the government-owned British Steel Corporation in 1967. Wikipedia has a list of their brid...
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Contractor active in the 1980s. According to the Companies House website this company was originally formed on 2 March 1910 as Henry Boot & Sons (Civil Engineering) Limited until 31 December 1...
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 ...
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