Canal Homes

Homes built in and around the canal network.

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Homes Built For Canal Workers

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  The lock keeper’s cottage near Ned’s Lock on the Stratford-upon-Avon canal, built c1812 by ‘Navvies’ using bridge templates and techniques.

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  The strangely shaped Lock-keeper’s Cottage on the Digbeth Branch Canal, Birmingham.

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  The Lock-Keepers Cottage, Queen Mary’s University on the Regents Canal, Mike End, London.

Homes Built In & Around The Canals

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  Canal Terrace, Islington, London (now knocked down). Photo 1946 by John Gay EHA

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  Canal View, Camden Town by the Regents Canal,1946 JohnGay EHA

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  Grand Union Walk comprises ten three-bedroom houses, a one-bedroom maisonette and a bedsit, built in 1988 to a design by Grimshaw Architects.

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  Prefabricated terraced houses by Urban Splash on the Rochdale Canal at New Islington, Manchester.

Canal Homes In Media and the Arts

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  ‘Regent’s Canal‘ by Algernon Cecil Newton 1927 (Private Collection).

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  ‘Old Houses, Bath' by Charles Glinner 1927 in a private collection

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  ‘The Regent’s Park Canal, Paddington’ by Algernon Cecil Newton 1930 (@royalacademy).

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  ‘The Old Canal‘, Bath by John Northcote Nash in or before 1931 (@BradfordMuseums)

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  ‘The Surrey Canal, Camberwell’ by Algernon Cecil Newton 1935 (@Tate).

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  'The House by the Canal' 1945 by Algernon Cecil Newton (1880–1968)

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  ‘Fife Terrace, Islington‘ by David Gentleman. The setting for The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski (1953).

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  ‘Heybridge’ by Elwin Hawthorne of the The 'East London Group' from 1938 was actually the lock-keeper's cottage on the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation at Heybridge

See Also In Chimni

Chimni Wiki Industrial & Other Urban Buildings

Chimni Wiki Homes In Other Buildings

Chimni Wiki Chimni Home Typology

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