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bridge ironwork by the tow ropes and the
pipe that carries one of London’s lost
rivers across the canal.
If you are heading home via the West
Way we’ll stop to buy tea in the newly
developed Paddington Basin before you
zip out ahead of the rush hour. If you
are returning to Kent or Surrey we’ll
scoot through the centre of London and
stop for tea and toilets on the South
Bank. East Anglian groups will cruise
from Little Venice and stop for tea in
Camden Lock before heading north out
of town. One way or another your
journey home after time for tea will
begin by 5.00/5.15pm.
Later Start Option
Remember if you prefer you can arrive
to start this day at noon with an early
lunch in the precincts of St Paul’s
Cathedral followed by the walking tour
and a stop for tea before the canal cruise,
heading home from Little Venice or
Camden Lock to suit your direction of
travel at 5.00pm.
Available daily throughout the year.
Adjustable walking content.
Maximum 57 people on the boat.
Adults:
£18.95
Seniors: £17.95
Coach Mileage: 15
All our members thought the day
excellent. Although we thanked our
excellent guide Jeanie would you
pass on our sincere thanks to her.
We learned so much about the secret
places of London and she made it so
interesting.
Mrs Beryl Mann, Oxfordshire Fed WI
May I say how much my members
enjoyed this trip. We had a lovely day
and our Guide was superb. She was
knowledgeable, knew just the right
amount of information to give so we
weren’t overloaded and she always
waited for everyone to be where
they could hear before she spoke.
Excellent.
Pat Astle, SE Essex Retired
Teachers’Association
it in his plans for the new Regent’s Park.
The new canal came too late to return
a decent profit but today it makes for a
very pleasant cruise especially as it takes
us through London Zoo where you see
the aviary designed by Lord Snowdon
and often, if the sun’s out, Paul the
warthog snuffling about.
Most canals snake through countryside
before cutting into the industrial hearts
of our old manufacturing cities. Not so
for our section of the Regent’s Canal
from Camden Lock to Little Venice.
From the cobbled and flagged yard of
Camden Lock snippets of workaday
London soon give way to the back
gardens of elegant townhouses that
get grander and grander until we reach
opulent Little Venice where the white
stuccoed mansions can attract rents of
£20,000 a week!
On a 50-minute cruise on a traditional
narrow boat that once carried real
cargoes you’ll see an oriental floating
restaurant, willow draped towpaths and
a colourful collection of houseboats and
brightly decorated narrowboats.
We pass beneath “blow up bridge” and
glide silently through a narrow tunnel
that the bargees, in horse-drawn days had
to walk their way through upside down.
The guide will help your folk to pick
out the little details that are so
fascinating: the grooves cut into the
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