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Canal & River Trust

From their website: "We're the charity who look after and bring to life 2,000 miles of waterways, because we believe that life is better by water."

Canal & River Trust took over the guardianship of British Waterways's (the previous government-owned operator) canals, rivers, reservoirs and docks in England and Wales.

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Canal & River Trust

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Islington Tunnel - east - new

We note that the plaque, twice refers to 'Angel', not 'the Angel', and realis...

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Market Gardens at Burgess Park

Market Gardens at Burgess Park

Our image is an extract from Stanfords 1862-71 map of London. Albany Road is the main road about a third of the way down; St George's Church is at the lower left; the present-day Chumleigh Gardens ...

Place, Food & Drink, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial
Gerrard Winstanley

Gerrard Winstanley

Protestant reformer, political philosopher, and activist. Co-founder of the True Levellers. Born Wigan. 1630 came to London, became an apprentice and, 1638, a freeman of the Merchant Taylors' Compa...

Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Vicar's Oak

Vicar's Oak

The tree is mentioned as early as 1583. According to Alan Warwick in his book ‘The Phoenix Suburb’, it stood at the high point in Norwood where four parishes (Battersea, Camberwell, Croydon and Lam...

Place, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial
New River Path Canonbury gardens - opening

New River Path Canonbury gardens - opening

From London Gardens Online: "The water that runs through New River Walk is actually formed by ponds landscaped to resemble the former river. It had first been planted as a garden by the New River C...

Event, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial
Joseph Beck

Joseph Beck

Saving Clissold Park have some lovely old photos of this man but they have eschewed the normal form of potted biography and instead have provided 13 bullets points:  Chairman of the Clissold Par...

Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration

2 memorials