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Gertrude Jekyll's Favourite Aster

Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

These White Wood Aster (Eurybia divaricata) is said to be the late British garden designer Gertrude Jekyll's favourite for covering up empty spots in the garden left behind by summer foliage.

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Regent canal walk, London

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Limehouse Basin is a body of water 2 miles east of London Bridge that is also a navigable link between the River Thames and two of London's canals. First dug in 1820 as the eastern terminus of the new Regent's Canal, its wet area was less than 5 acres (2 hectares) originally, but it was gradually enlarged in the Victorian era, reaching a maximum of double that size, when it was given its characteristic oblique entrance lock, big enough to admit 2,000-ton ships. #regentcanal #limehousebasin #london (à Regent's Canal) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpgN_9vLdhR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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In 2012, playwright Rob Inglis was awarded a £16,000 Arts Council grant to write Regent's Canal, a Folk Opera, a musical that celebrates the 200th anniversary of the digging of the canal. It played in a number of locations around London in 2012. #london #regentcanal (à Limehouse Basin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpdpilmrHPL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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All the locks were built with duplicate chambers to facilitate the heavy barge traffic. With the demise of commercial traffic in the early 1970s, at the end of 1973, the British Waterways Board embarked on a three-year programme to convert one chamber at each lock into an overflow weir to facilitate unmanned use by pleasure craft without the risk of serious flooding due to incorrect use of the paddles. #regentcanal #london (à Regent's Canal) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpdpPForOEo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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There were a number of abortive projects to convert the route of the canal into a railway. In September 1845 a special general assembly of the proprietors approved the sale of the canal at the price of one million pounds to a group of businessmen who had formed the Regent's Canal Railway Company for the purpose. The advertisement for the company explained: The vast importance of this undertaking, whereby a junction will be effected between all existing and projected railways north of the Thames, combined with the advantage of a General City Terminus, is too obvious to require comment. By the proposed railway, passengers and goods will be brought into the heart of the City at a great saving of time and expense, and facilities will be afforded for the more expeditious transmission of the mails to most parts of the kingdom. #railway #projects #london #regentcanal (à Regent's Canal) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpdo478LR6P/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The canal is frequently used today for pleasure cruising; a regular waterbus service operates between Maida Vale and Camden, running hourly during the summer months. #london #regentcanal (à Regent's Canal) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpdoai7r8eY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A new purpose was found for the canal route in 1979, when the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) installed underground cables in a trough below the towpath between St John's Wood and City Road. These 400 kV cables now form part of the National Grid, supplying electrical power to London. Pumped canal water is circulated as a coolant for the high-voltage cables. The canal is frequently used today for pleasure cruising; a regular waterbus service operates between Maida Vale and Camden, running hourly during the summer months. #regentcanal #london (à Regent's Canal) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpdoIzzL_Hy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=