Three canal sculptures for the City Road

Three sculptures next to Islington’s City Road Basin remind visitors of the area’s faded but still visible canal cargo heritage.The City Road Basin was a large cargo-handling “dock” that was constructed next to the Regents Canal and opened in 1820. It quickly became London’s busiest inland cargo-handling site. As with most of the canals, it fell into disuse from the 1950s, and an attempt to fill in the entire dock was successfully opposed in the 1970s.
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