IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Waterloo Gardens, LONDON, E2 9HU
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Waterloo Gardens, E2 9HU by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (291 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Details
Distance
1
View of narrowboats moored on the Regent's Canal near Bethnal Green #2
Looking south-southeast.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 26 Aug 2017
0.02 miles
3
Regents Canal near Victoria Park, Bow
Regent's Canal, looking north-west from the Bonner Hall Bridge.
Image: © I M Chengappa
Taken: 3 Aug 2007
0.02 miles
4
Houses on the corner of Waterloo Gardens and Sewardstone Road from the Regent's Canal
Looking south-southwest.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 10 May 2012
0.03 miles
5
View of narrowboats moored on the Regent's Canal near Bethnal Green
Looking south-southeast.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 26 Aug 2017
0.03 miles
6
Gardens bordering the canal
These houses in Sewardstone Road have gardens that run down to the Regent's Canal. The land in this part of Bethnal Green belonged to the Sotheby family and was developed in the 1840s, after the earlier construction of the canal.
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff
Taken: 4 Oct 2009
0.04 miles
7
Canalside hut
Construction of a national canal network began in the late 18th century, but initially the canal from the Midlands ended at Paddington, and there was no link to eastern London until the Regent's Canal was built. It was the brainchild of engineer Thomas Homer who, in 1812, presented a plan to the Grand Junction Company (which owned the canal from London to Birmingham) for the creation of a waterway from Limehouse to Paddington. To begin with the project progressed quickly, largely passing through what was then agricultural land, but it was soon hampered by financial problems. Stubborn and greedy landowners asked inflated prices for property along the preferred route, and, to make matters worse, Thomas Homer disappeared in 1815 taking the company's funds with him. New legislation passed in 1817 enabled the work to be completed by 1820 using funds borrowed from the Treasury.
The canals were initially a success, particularly for transporting coal, building materials and other bulky loads, but the rise of the railways not long after the canals were built substantially reduced their importance. Now they are primarily a leisure facility. What was then the Central Electricity Generating Board laid cables under some of the towpaths in the 1970s, as here, and made them suitable for pedestrians again.
This is looking across the Regent's Canal from the Victoria Park side and is just west of Bonner Bridge. Back gardens of houses in Sewardstone Road come down to the canal and this householder has built a hut at the end of the garden and also has a boat moored.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 5 Nov 2019
0.04 miles
9
Canal Barges, Regent's Canal
A tow path leads beside this urban canal, past a large park (on the left) towards the lock near Old Ford Road.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 15 Feb 2012
0.05 miles
10
Regents Canal - towpath and narrowboats
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 12 Feb 2012
0.05 miles