City Canal
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The City Canal was a short, and short-lived, canal excavated across the Isle of Dogs in east London, linking two reaches of the River Thames. Today, it has been almost completely reconstructed to form
An 1802 painting of the completed West India Docks. The City Canal is to the left of the painting. The view is looking west towards the City of London
East Indiamen at City Canal, circa 1824
William Jessop
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William Jessop was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
City Canal
…take some time. The idea had been suggested by Ralph Walker in 1796. The West India merchants employed him as an engineer, and with assistance from William Jessop, John Foulds and George Dance, who was the City of London's surveyor, he produced the detailed plans which enabled the act of Parliament to be obtained…
William Jessop Chief Civil Engineer
The Grand Canal in Dublin.
Butterley Company plate in St Pancras station
The Cosgrove aqueduct