other boats. It is still in working order.The Regent's Ground Floor Gallery 5 Ground Floor 7 Canal runs along the end of the basin, to the right. On your left as you enter the ground floor gallery is an 7 Many of the moored boats are residential, some 1. Shop & admission introduction to the canals of Britain. Don’t forget to 4 6 having been converted from old working boats.The 2. Coronis look up at the traditionally decorated items on the wall. basin was once ringed by wharves and factories. 3. Roses & castles You will certainly have noticed the narrowboat Coronis 8 4. Canal life Back inside the museum go down the other stairs as you came in.This is a "butty", used as one of a pair, 9 3 5. Door to basin & tug and look at some of the equipment used for the and towed by a powered boat. Mind your step as you go 6. Ice well hard work of cargo handling. There is a display of inside through the cargo area into the reconstructed 7. Wheelchair lifts lace plates behind the ice well opening. Lace plates, cabin.Whole families lived in cramped cabins like this 2 10 8. Handling & or ribbon plates, were a souvenir from a holiday or one. Press the button by the door to listen to the weighing day trip, often hung in the cabin and decorated with recording of the family’s conversation to learn more 9. Toll Office ribbons.They became a tradition closely associated about their lives. 11 10. Ice trade/ice cream with the canal people. Note the Toll Office - theToll When you come out of the cabin go towards the rear 11. Activity Zone. Collector has just gone out. of the building noticing the attractive canal art display in WC Next comes our exhibition about the ice trade and the wall of the canal bridge. "Roses and castles", is the 1 ice cream featuring Carlo Gatti himself! Touch the most famous canal art tradition.The art form was used screen to ask him about his fascinating life and times. to decorate boats and domestic items alike. Way in & out Peer into the “periscope” to see Go up the stairs to the raised level and try your hand at how an ice well might have making knots before looking at the traditional costume looked.The customers for display. Now look down over the railing into the huge the ice included ice cream well below. It is one of two, the other is below the front 9 First Floor makers, butchers, of the building. The wells are 34 feet (10 metres) 7 fishmongers, hospitals, across and were originally about 42 feet (13 metres) 3 1. Toilets 6 and those who could deep.The floor on which you entered the gallery was 2. Map 5 afford to have the "ice not added until the wells ceased to be used. Huge 3. Stable & man" deliver regularly to blocks of ice were imported by ship from Norway, then Horse Power 8 their homes.There is a transferred at the Regent's Canal Dock (now 4. Video Victorian model of an ice cart and some examples Limehouse Basin) to canal barges and brought along the 5. Regent’s Canal of the sort of ice box in which food was stored. Regent's Canal to Battlebridge Basin, which is just 10 6. Temp Exhibition Tools for handling ice hang above. See also the outside. The ice was lowered into the wells and could 7. Lift moulds once used for the early production of ice in be stored for many months - there was so much of it 4 2 8. Horse ramp factories - a process which led to the abandonment that it kept itself cold. 9. Water/locks 1 of the ice wells here. You are welcome to go outside at the rear to see 10. Canal boats The first floor is reached by the stairs near the Battlebridge Basin and the Museum's "Bantam" tug (it shop or via the two separate lifts at the rear of the may occasionally be away). This was built in 1949-50 building. and is a "pusher" tug which propels rather than tows First Floor Gallery Museum, then right into All Saint's Street. Follow this to London Canal Museum the main Caledonian Road where you turn left and The first thing you will notice is our large map of continue until you reach the bridge over the canal. London’s canals, but don’t forget to look up at the fine Islington Tunnel is to the right, and to the left it is a 30 Victorian timber roof. Horses feature prominently on minute walk along the towpath to Camden Locks and the first floor.There is a recreation of a stable stall as the famous market. originally installed in the building in 1906. Our Horse Power exhibition tells the story of horses in London on the canals and streets. The horses which once lived on We hope you have enjoyed your visit.We have regular this floor pulled ice carts.They reached the first floor evening illustrated talks, and other special events - by means of the special horse ramp opposite the please ask for details.Thank you for coming. stables display - look down over the railing.This was built when the ice company converted the building into a stables and cart shed in the early 1900s. On this floor we also have regularly changing temporary exhibitions. A large print version The windows look out over Battlebridge basin, built in is also available 1820 for William Horsfall, and then called Horsfall basin. The Canal Museum Trust Battlebridge was the original name of this part of 12-13, New Wharf Road London. London N1 9RT Mini-guide to the Museum. Tel: 020 7713 0836 Fax: 020 7689 6679 This building was built around 1863 as an ice The video shows a fascinating piece of historic film. Web: www.canalmuseum.org.uk warehouse for Carlo Gatti, who became Mobiles: www.canalmuseum.org.uk/wap/ "BargingThrough London" is a silent film portraying a famous as an ice importer, restaurateur and Registered Charity No. 277484 journey from east to west London along the Regent's ice cream maker. The entrance through which Ver.6.0 March 2007 Canal in 1924.An accompanying film relates the story you have come into the building was once of the Canal to what you can see today.The video used by horse drawn ice carts on their way to repeats automatically,but please ask if you need any deliver supplies of ice toVictorian London, in help. It lasts about twenty minutes. In the centre is our the days before ice could be made in factories exhibition about the history of the Regent's Canal. or the home. The front part of the building was rebuilt in 1904. The Museum tells the story of the canals, their people, and trade. When you have finished your tour,don't forget to The link between canals and ice lies in the browse the souvenirs and books in the Museum Shop. transport of ice to this site by boat - to the The books and gifts are on waterway themes.Visitors rear of the Museum is Battlebridge Basin, on often wish to visit the canal itself after touring the the Regent's Canal.We hope you will enjoy Museum.You are only a short walk from Islington your visit - this mini-guide will help you find Tunnel, the longest in London.Turn left when leaving the your way.