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The Canal served the Surrey Commercial Docks, and the area near Camberwell was full of 19th century streets, houses and industrial buildings ( including a ginger beer factory ), many of which had suffered heavy bomb damage during WWII.
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He first became executive officer to General Conner in the Panama Canal Zone, where, joined by Mamie, he served until 1924.
For a brief period in the 1880s it served as a coaling station for steamships transiting the Indian Ocean from the Suez Canal to Australia.
Canal construction served as a model for the organisation and methods later used to construct the railways.
When the Warwick and Napton Canal opened, this section was bypassed but served as the town's wharf area.
Therefore, the Grand Canal served to make or break the economic fortunes of certain cities along its route, and served as the economic lifeline of indigenous trade within China.
From the Tang to Qing dynasties, the Grand Canal served as the main artery between northern and southern China and was essential for the transport of grain to Beijing.
According to Vallée, a Navy veteran who served on board the USS Engstrom noted that the Eldridge might indeed have travelled from Philadelphia to Norfolk and back again in a single day at a time when merchant ships could not: by use of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Chesapeake Bay, which at the time was open only to naval vessels.
The town served as a central point for troops ' conducting major raids against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and turnpike and telegraph paths along those routes and the Potomac River Valley.
The Reading and Pennsylvania railroads: In the early 19th century southern Schuylkill County was served by the Union Canal out of Pine Grove with connections west, and the Schuylkill Canal southward from Port Carbon.
Of prime importance was the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven, which served the Schuylkill Canal.
Caen is served by the small port of Ouistreham, lying at the mouth of the Caen Canal where it meets the English Channel.
The Plaquemine Lock, constructed from 1895 – 1909, was a vitally important link between the Mississippi River and the Intracoastal Canal, of which Bayou Plaquemine served as its northern terminus.
Its design served as the proto-type for the upcoming Panama Canal locks.
Newbury is situated on the River Kennet, the valley of which has always formed an important east – west transport route, served by the Kennet and Avon Canal, and the Great Western Railway line from London to the West Country.
Phillipsburg served as the western terminus of the Morris Canal for approximately 100 years from the 1820s to 1920s, which connected the city by water to the industrial and consumer centers of the New York City area, with connections westward via the Lehigh Canal across the Delaware.
The Genesee Valley Canal was completed around 1853 and stimulated the growth of the hamlet Belfast, which was later served by three railroads.
It developed from a stopover on the Erie Canal, which bends as it passes through the village, creating a basin that served as a stopover point.
Students in the western part of the city, as well as the village of Clinton, are served by the Northwest Local School District in Canal Fulton.
The town served as the only boat building and repair facility along the Lehigh Canal.
The town was located at the Burks-Dauphin Turnpike, later it was served by the Union Canal.
He was a county commissioner, state commissioner and served on the initial committee that explored to possibility of building the Pennsylvania Canal that improved navigation on the Susquehanna River.
Dymock was served by the Hereford & Gloucester Canal, opened in 1845 ; this closed in 1881 and the section between Ledbury and Gloucester converted into a railway line, a branch line of the Great Western Railway, though a stretch between Dymock and Newent was by-passed as it was decided not to take the line through the 2, 192 yard Oxenhall Tunnel.
Canal and Surrey
Planning permission has been granted to open Surrey Canal Road station which will be on the East London Line phase 2 extension to Clapham Junction station.
The new station is due to open in the next couple of years and will be an alternative transport hub for residents in the Surrey Canal Triangle areas as well as residents on the periphery of New Cross and South Bermondsey.
The rough roads constrained traffic so a branch of the Grand Surrey Canal was proposed as a route from the Thames to Portsmouth.
Canada Dock ( now renamed Canada Water ) was the dock basin furthest away from the River Thames in the Surrey Docks complex, and it was linked to Albion Dock and Greenland Dock at its northern and south-eastern extremities via the Albion Canal.
Latrobe was involved in construction of the Basingstoke Canal in Surrey, together with engineers John Smeaton and William Jessop.
Apart from this, relatively few canals were built in London itself ; the few that were included the Regent's Canal and the now defunct Grand Surrey and Croydon canals.
The London and Croydon planned to use New Cross as the London terminal for its freight traffic, as the station had good access to the Grand Surrey Canal.
An important stage in the construction of the park was the closure of the Grand Surrey Canal in the early 1970s, which terminated at Addington Wharf on Walworth Road.
The second, opened in 1809, was the Croydon Canal, which branched off the Grand Surrey Canal at Deptford.
More than doubling in length and nearly doubling in depth, in its final form, it covered an area of, with a depth of and a length of, which cut straight across the old Grand Surrey Canal.
Additionally, a new watersports centre was constructed on the site of the former entrance to the now infilled Grand Surrey Canal.
The Wey and Arun Canal is a 23-mile-long ( 37 km ) canal in the south of England, between the River Wey at Shalford, Surrey and the River Arun at Pallingham, in West Sussex.
An Act of Parliament received the Royal Assent on 19 April 1813, entitled " An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal, to unite the Rivers Wey and Arun, in the counties of Surrey and Sussex ".
The Croydon Canal ran from Croydon, via Forest Hill, to the Grand Surrey Canal at New Cross in south London, England.
Authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1801, the canal was originally intended to extend northwards to Rotherhithe, but the simultaneous construction of the Grand Surrey Canal provided a convenient access route.
The Croydon Canal linked to the Croydon Merstham and Godstone Railway ( itself connected to the Surrey Iron Railway ), enabling the canal to be used to transport stone and lime from workings at Merstham.
The Grand Surrey Canal was a canal constructed in south London, England during the early 19th century.
These were the Grand Surrey Canal, at the time called the Kent and Surrey Canal, the Croydon Canal linking Croydon and Rotherhithe, and the Surrey Iron Railway, a horse-drawn linking Croydon to Wandsworth, and all three were authorised in 1801.
Canal and Commercial
Limehouse Basin connects to the Regent's Canal via the Commercial Road Lock to the north, and the River Thames via Limehouse Basin Lock to the south.
Image: Canal lock-Regent's Canal-Limehouse Basin. jpg | Commercial Road Lock on the Regent's Canal entering the Limehouse Basin.
Stepney is roughly bounded by Commercial Road, part of the A13, in the south, Mile End Road, part of the A11, in the north and the Regent's Canal in the east.
It is roughly bounded by Commercial Road, part of the A13, in the south, Mile End Road, part of the A11, in the north and the Regent's Canal in the east.
There is no tow-path in the tunnel so bargees had to walk their barges through, braced against the roof .< ref >< cite > Alan Faulkner " The Regent's Canal: London's Hidden Waterway " ( 2005 ) ISBN 1-870002-59-8 </ ref > Commercial use of the canal has declined since the 1960s.
Commercial shipping descends through a lock into the Silo Canal that passes to the north of the city centre.
* 2004 – 2010 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Theatre and Commercial Development – Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Commercial traffic on the canal greatly declined after a waterway breach near Newtown, Powys ( now part of the Montgomery Canal ) in 1936.
Beyond these, the Commercial Road Lock leads to the Regent's Canal.
Commercial Road Lock on Regent's Canal where it meets the Limehouse Basin
* September 24, 1997 — Announcement that the Venetian's Grand Canal Shoppes will be managed by Forest City Commercial Management.
Entry to the River from the Canal was gained via the mouth of a small tributary, Little Buffalo Creek, which was excavated and stabilized to form the Commercial Slip leading from the Erie Canal.
When the Canal was completed in 1825, New York Governor Dewitt Clinton's vessel was towed from the Canal through the Commercial Slip and Buffalo River to Lake Erie, where he poured Atlantic Ocean water into the Lake, and collected Lake water to place in the ocean after his return trip to New York City.
The planned Commercial Canal was intended to link the Chester Canal at Nantwich to the Ashby Canal at Moira, passing through Stoke on Trent and Uttoxeter, and would have had a serious impact on the profitability of the Trent and Mersey Company if it had been built.
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