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Homes built in and around the canal network.

‪‘Coates Roundhouses’ on the Thames & Severn Canal built as tied accommodation for canal maintenance or ‘lengthsmen’ between 1791-2‬.
The lock keeper’s cottage near Ned’s Lock on the Stratford-upon-Avon canal, built c1812 by ‘Navvies’ using bridge templates and techniques.
The strangely shaped Lock-keeper’s Cottage on the Digbeth Branch Canal, Birmingham.
The Lock-Keepers Cottage, Queen Mary’s University on the Regents Canal, Mike End, London.

Canal Terrace, Islington, London (now knocked down). Photo 1946 by John Gay EHA
Canal View, Camden Town by the Regents Canal,1946 JohnGay EHA
Grand Union Walk comprises ten three-bedroom houses, a one-bedroom maisonette and a bedsit, built in 1988 to a design by Grimshaw Architects.
Prefabricated terraced houses by Urban Splash on the Rochdale Canal at New Islington, Manchester.
’Brick House’ at Port Loop, on the Birmingham Canal, Birmingham by GlennHowells Architects for Urban Splash.

‘Regent’s Canal‘ by Algernon Cecil Newton 1927 (Private Collection).
‘Old Houses, Bath' by Charles Glinner 1927 in a private collection.
‘Newly Painted House’ by Cecil Osborne from 1933
‘The Regent’s Park Canal, Paddington’ by Algernon Cecil Newton 1930 (@royalacademy).
‘The Old Canal‘, Bath by John Northcote Nash in or before 1931 (@BradfordMuseums)
‘The Surrey Canal, Camberwell’ by Algernon Cecil Newton 1935 (@Tate).
'The House by the Canal' 1945 by Algernon Cecil Newton (1880–1968)
‘Fife Terrace, Islington‘ by David Gentleman. The setting for The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski (1953).
‘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
One of the many Lino cuts produced by Wigan born artist Eric Gaskell.

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+File:CoatesRoundhouse.jpeg|‪‘Coates Roundhouses’ on the Thames & Severn Canal built as tied accommodation for canal maintenance or ‘lengthsmen’ between 1791-2‬.
 file:NedsLockkeepersHouse-StratfordUponAvon.jpeg|The lock keeper’s cottage near Ned’s Lock on the Stratford-upon-Avon canal, built c1812 by ‘Navvies’ using bridge templates and techniques.