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Maple Walk, LONDON, W10 4NN

This building by the Grand Union Canal has a large door opening straight onto the canal, for loading from barges. The building has recently been extensively refurbished and reclad, and the door is this stylish effort. Photo across the canal.

Old wharf buildings, left, have been redeveloped as part of the Portobello dock regeneration scheme (also involving the former Kensal Green gas works); the bridge across the canal links both sides of this project.

Beside a footbridge across the Grand Union Canal. The listed villa shown in Image is mostly hidden by the nearer block of offices.

With the rears of buildings on Harrow Road on the right. The white office building by the bridge is in Image A glimpse of Kensal Gas Works on the extreme left.

The Paddington Arm of the then Grand Junction Canal was opened in 1801 from Bull's Bridge near Southall to Paddington Basin. 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. The Paddington Arm was one of the last to see the old-fashioned style of regular commercial traffic of paired narrow boats carrying the traditional materials such as coal, oils, and tar. The Paddington Arm now sees regular commercial traffic, usually in the form of aggregates. What was then the Central Electricity Generating Board laid cables under some of the towpaths in the 1970s, as seen here, and made them suitable for pedestrians again. The towpath is followed by the Grand Union Canal Walk. This section is between Great Western Road and Ladbroke Grove. The houses on the opposite side are on Harrow Road. Ladbroke Grove is just ahead beyond the footbridge.

Bridge No 4ab, connecting Harrow Road and Kensal Road over Grand Union Canal (Paddington Branch).