Cafe above Islington Tunnel mouth
Spent a peaceful night moored next to Victoria Pa
rk. Queen Victoria apparently got this built ( but it was 30 years before she got round to visiting it, according to the info on site) . Nice big park and obviously very popular.
rk. Queen Victoria apparently got this built ( but it was 30 years before she got round to visiting it, according to the info on site) . Nice big park and obviously very popular. 
This is quite a gritty part of town...but with some quite slick new interventions on what were, presumably, industrial sites. Crew #4 is local, but even he can't always tell where he is without getting up to street level to check - it really is two 
worlds...
worlds...
In the foreground, the remains of the old industry - which made things -in the distance the new "industry" which makes bonuses and not much else..Canary Wharf - still London's highest tow
er, has the conical roof.A rare surviving horse ramp - used to get horses out of the canal if they were pulled in by the boat, or if they were spooked by steam trains
.
Locking down into Limehouse Basin with a view of Canary Wharf.
.......and a fine clump of water lilleys in a disused lock.Crew#4 kindly bought dinner at the Cruising Association, we had a nice pint at The Grapes - cracking pub overlooking The Thames, watched "Curse of the Were Rabbit" and turned in.
