{"id":10107,"date":"2019-10-14T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10107"},"modified":"2019-10-12T09:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T09:53:19","slug":"back-to-the-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10107","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/06\/01\/20190601-d0023-fullframe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hadn&#8217;t meant to take pictures of the Regent&#8217;s Canal on June 1st, but I found myself in Dalston with an hour or two to spare before I wanted to be in Cavendish Square. It was around lunchtime thought the canal towpath would be a pleasant place to sit down and eat my sandwiches in the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/06\/01\/20190601-d0028-fullframe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a Saturday and the towpath was quite busy with both walkers and cyclists and I walked around a little before finding a well placed unoccupied place to sit, taking a few pictures as I did so. Things have changed pretty drastically since I first walked and photographed along here almost 40 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/06\/01\/20190601-d0056-fullframe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d chosen a good place to sit too, with some shade, as the sun was rather hot, but also with an interesting view of the canal and of the people and boats passing, and I paused in my lunch several times to pick up my camera and make another exposure &#8211; there are six pictures on line all taken from within a few feet from my seat &#8211; including the one immediately above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/06\/01\/20190601-d0061-fullframe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After finishing my lunch I still had time to walk a little further east along the towpath,  rather hoping that I might chance across a convenient local pub for a quick drink, but I was out of luck in Haggerston and had to make do with water from the bottle in my bag.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/06\/01\/20190601-d0070-fullframe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The area north of the canal here always used to seem one of the more remote parts of London, one I saw from the train coming in from Dalston Junction to Broad Street, a largely elevated stretch of line with no stations (those at Haggerston and Shoreditch were closed in 1940. ) But now parts of that line have been reopened as part of the London Overground, and I was able to catch a train from the new Haggerston station to Highbury and Islington and the Victoria Line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of these images would benefit from cropping to a more panoramic format, which I usually do. You can see more at <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/06\/jun.htm#canal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Canal Panoramas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center\">All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">There are no adverts on this site and it receives no sponsorship, and I like to keep it that way. But it does take a considerable amount of my time and thought, and if you enjoy reading it, please <strong><em>share on social media<\/em><\/strong>. <br>And <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/Rephoto\" target=\"_blank\">small donations via Paypal<\/a> &#8211; perhaps the cost of a beer &#8211; would be appreciated.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t meant to take pictures of the Regent&#8217;s Canal on June 1st, but I found myself in Dalston with an hour or two to spare before I wanted to be in Cavendish Square. It was around lunchtime thought the canal towpath would be a pleasant place to sit down and eat my sandwiches in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back to the Canal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[299,946,945,947,17,198,199],"class_list":["post-10107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","tag-canal","tag-dalston","tag-haggerston","tag-kingsland","tag-london","tag-panoramas","tag-panoramic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10108,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions\/10108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}