2-714-854 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Paddington Canal, 1840', (c1876). The Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal was opened on 10 July 1801, authorised by an Act of April 1795 as a water-transport route to the Midlands during the Industrial revolution. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]