Canals

Comprehensive development areas: Stepney / Poplar consists of:

Photograph of an irrigation canal in Egypt in the early 20th century.

Letter from James Watt to Joseph Black about his canal plans at Tarbert and Crinnan.

Lithographed plate from a Calcutta publication "Med Jou. Press", relating to irrigation and Proby Cautley's Doab canal (also called the Eastern Yamuna canal, engineered by Captain Robert Smith, himself assisted by Proby Cautley).

Photograph of men using a steam shovel to open up the main canal 10 miles from the headgate by digging up dirt and placing it in open train cars in the early 20th century.

Photograph of a steam ship on the Suez Canal in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Photograph of a view near the entrance of the Dhul Canal in Cashmere [Kashmir, India] in the late 19th or early 20th century showing the canal, trees and boats.