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[email protected] · January 1st 16, 04:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 31.12.15 20:18, Martin Smith wrote:
On 26/12/2015 15:04, wrote:
My mother, who would have been 100 on Christmas Eve if she were still
alive, lived close to the Peckham arm as a child. I remember there
being a hump in a road visible from a bus where the road passed over
the route of the canal. I think it was finally removed some years ago.

Surely the canal would have carried timber from the docks, not to them
as the article says?

Indeed, most large timber yards were on canals, it was the only way that
really large amounts of wood could be easily transported, the timber
yard in Peckham Hill St backs onto what used to be known as Canal Head,
where the canal terminated in Peckham. Not far down the road in
Willowbrook Road there is still a canal bridge, that part of the old
canal track is now a pleasant foot and bicycle path, it also ran east
west through what is now Burgess Park, there are stil the realtively
preserved remaims of what was probably a lime kiln, though it could have
been a brick kiln, someone here will know for sure.

Are any canals being used or starting to find use as commercial
waterways for the shipment of goods?