Canal Homes: Difference between revisions

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Homes built in and around the canal network.

‪‘Coates Roundhouses’ near Cirencester 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.
Nutshell Bridge House at Stonehouse, Gloucester on the Stroudwater Canal. Built in the 1770s originally as a warehouse for the local mill.
The stone-built lock keeper’s cottage at Tixall Lock on the Staffs & Worcs Canal.
Old Lock-keepers Cottage on the Kenner & Avon Canal at Hungerford, now a private home.
Junction Bridge House & Swing Bridge at Saul, Gloucestershire on the Gloucester & Sharpness Ship Canal. Built to house the canal company’s toll collector for boats entering the canal and later accommodated the British Waterways' bridge-keeper.
The old Regent's Canal Toll House, Maida Vale, London now converted to a home.
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 Mill’ by Phyllis Bray of The 'East London Group' from 1933 which was painted at Chalford, in the Cotswolds.
‘The Surrey Canal, Camberwell’ by Algernon Cecil Newton 1935 (@Tate).
‘Heybridge’ by Elwin Hawthorne of The 'East London Group' from 1938 was actually the lock-keeper's cottage on the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation at Heybridge
'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).
One of the many Lino cuts produced by Wigan born artist Eric Gaskell.
A painting by Andy Lovell (@getlovell) of one of the ‘Coates Roundhouses’ on the Thames & Severn Canal

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 File:TixallLockeepersCottage.jpeg|The stone-built lock keeper’s cottage at Tixall Lock on the Staffs & Worcs Canal.
+File:LockkeepersHouse-Hungerford.jpeg|Old Lock-keepers Cottage on the Kenner & Avon Canal at Hungerford, now a private home.
 File:JunctionBridge-Saul.jpeg|Junction Bridge House & Swing Bridge at Saul, Gloucestershire on the Gloucester & Sharpness Ship Canal. Built to house the canal company’s toll collector for boats entering the canal and later accommodated the British Waterways' bridge-keeper.