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	What do you know? Test your knowledge about the Regent's Canal
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	Do you know the answers to these questions? Push the Answer button below each question to see if you were right. Question 1. When was the Regent's Canal opened? Answer Question 2. How many tunnels are there on the Regent's Canal and which is the longest? Answer Question 3. What crisis hit the canal at 0455, on 2nd October 1874? Answer Question 4 What was the canal's coldest cargo in the 19th Century? Answer Question 5 Is it true that only one narrowboat can pass through a lock at a time? Answer Question 6 Which part of the Regent's Canal has been closed for many years? Answer Question 7. What else, apart from horses, used to pull barges with a rope, along the Regents Canal? Answer Question 8. What was the Regents Canal boatman's regular suffocating experience? Answer Question 9. What is beneath the towpath of the Regents Canal that makes the use of mooring spikes a very unwise idea? Answer Question 10. What financial irregularity cost the Regents Canal Company dearly in 1815? Answer

Answer to Question 1

The Regents Canal was opened in 1820. Some sections were in use the previous year.

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Answer to Question 2

Three! Maida Hill(272 yards), and Islington(960 yards) close to the London Canal Museum. The short Eyres Tunnel beneath Lisson Grove is not always counted as a tunnel.

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Answer to Question 3

A barge carrying explosives blew up under Macclesfield bridge, killing three crew. The canal was closed for 3 days. The accident cost the company a fortune in compensation.

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Answer to Question 4

Ice! Blocks of ice were cut from lakes in Norway and brought by ship to Limehouse where they were transferred to barges for delivery to ice storage wells adjoining the canal.

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Answer to Question 5

No! The Regents Canal locks can accommodate two narrowboats or one barge at the same time.

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Answer to Question 6

The Cumberland Arm was closed during the 1939-45 war and filled with debris from war damaged London. It ran from near Regents Park to Cumberland Basin close by Euston Station

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Answer to Question 7

Tractors! In the 1950s motor tractors were used on the towing path to haul barges in place of horses .

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Answer to Question 8

Passing through Islington tunnel with the assistance of the steam tug. The smoke and steam in the tunnel made for a thoroughly unpleasant half hour.

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Answer to Question 9

There are high voltage electricity cables. The canal water is used to cool them. These were installed in the 1970s

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Answer to Question 10

The Superintendant of the Canal, Thomas Homer, disappeared. A lot of shareholders money disappeared with him, and shareholders had to be asked for further funds.

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