Écluses de Canal Grosvenor, un canal dans le quartier de Pimlico de Londres, en 1825. Il est aujourd'hui une petite longueur dans le développement au bord de l'eau
4156 x 6210 px | 35,2 x 52,6 cm | 13,9 x 20,7 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
12 mars 2016
Lieu:
Chelsea, London, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
Grosvenor Canal was a canal in the Pimlico area of London, opened in 1825. It was progressively shortened, as first the railways to Victoria Station and then the Ebury Bridge housing estate were built over it. It remained in use until 1995, enabling barges to be loaded with refuse for removal from the city, making it the last canal in London to operate commercially. A small part of it remains among the Grosvenor Waterside development. The resident engineer for the construction of the tidal lock and upper basin was John Armstrong, originally from Ingram in Northumberland. Having trained as a millwright in Newcastle, he worked on a number of bridge projects under several of the major civil engineers of the time, including Thomas Telford, William Jessop and John Rennie, before taking on the Grosvenor Canal project. It was one of the few times he worked independently as a civil engineer. The canal opened in 1824, and Chelsea Waterworks continued to extract water from it, until the passing of the Metropolis Water Act in 1852, which prohibited extraction from the Thames below Teddington Lock. They moved to Seething Wells, Surbiton in 1856. The canal originally stretched from the Thames near Chelsea Bridge to Grosvenor Basin on the current site of Victoria station. Since 1866, a local authority called the Vestry of St George, Hanover Square had used the canal to transport household refuse away from the area. They were based close to the end of the canal at Ebury Bridge. Following the cutback of the canal to this point, the Duke of Westminster sold what was left of the canal to Westminster City Council, and its primary function became rubbish removal. In July 1928 the canal closed for nearly a year, while major improvements were made to facilitate the barge traffic. At its peak, 8, 000 tons of refuse were loaded onto barges each week and the barge traffic lasted until 1995 making it the last canal in commercial operation in London. The area has since been redeveloped
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