On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 3:04:37 PM UTC, 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?

Family legend has it that between 1920-1940 my maternal grandfather was retained by two boroughs (not sure which) to pull human and animal corpses out of the canal; he got five bob from one and seven-and-six from the other, and, so the story goes, if a body was near the borough boundary he was not averse to prior to recovery punting it along with his long pole until it crossed into the highing-paying borough.