Since 1992 the London Canal Museum has been displaying and interpreting the Capital's waterways history - and the Canal Museum Trust's volunteers have been active in all aspects of this work, because unlike the major national museums it is almost entirely volunteer run. The museum is based in a former ice warehouse, which backs on to Battlebridge Basin on the Regent's Canal near King's Cross. In the days before refrigeration, ice used to be shipped from Scandinavia, delivered by barge from the docks, and stored in two huge wells under the building before being delivered to London's fishmongers, restaurants and ice-cream makers. A display of the ice trade occupies part of the building but most of its two floors are given over to canal-related displays.
展开▼
