Warehouse on Regent's Canal viewed from Camley Street Nature Park
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Photograph and text 2006 by Jacqueline Banerjee.
The park is where a former coal-drop and storage site for the canal barges behind the station has been converted into a pleasant two-acre nature reserve along the canal bank. When I visited a turtle was basking on a stone in the pond, and wild primroses and daffodils were in bloom. There were squirrels and a variety of waterfowl. The other side of the canal, however, is probably much as it was in Victorian England, minus the bustle of canal life in those days (though you can see people cycling along the towpath towards Camden Lock).
Last modified 19 April 2006