The London Canal Museum

A final canal related post, this time about the London Canal Museum.

This is just round the corner from Kings Cross / St. Pancras and no prizes for guessing what this museum covers. It's a good source of information about the history of London's canals, showing the network both built and unbuilt, still functioning and those waters that have been lost:

The building itself is interesting as it used to be an ice store and there's a large cellar where the ice used to be kept. Outside by the wharf is an old canal tug, Bantam IV:

Upstairs is a large space where archive films were being shown and which is also a place where there are exhibitions, talks and concerts.