Eastern entrance to Pentonville Tunnel and tunnel keeper's cottage, Regent's Canal, London Size:XS: 20 x 15cm Plan showing the demolitions undertaken

Plan showing the demolitions undertaken for Holborn Viaduct over the Fleet Valley

Two journalists

In the foreground figures work in the field gathering hay

To the left is a printing press

A crowd has also gathered on the bridge to watch

Eastern entrance to Pentonville Tunnel and tunnel keeper's cottage, Regent's Canal, London Size:XS: 20 x 15cm Plan showing the demolitions undertakenEastern entrance to Pentonville Tunnel and tunnel keeper's cottage, Regent's Canal, London, c1905. The Regent's Canal, connecting the Paddington Canal and the Thames at Limehouse, was opened in 1820. The canal cost 772,000 to construct, twice the amount originally estimated. In 1929 the Regent's Canal Company purchased the Grand Junction and Warwick Canals, merging the three waterways to create the Grand Union Canal.