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At London Canal Museum you can see inside a narrowboat cabin, learn about the history of London's canals, about the cargoes carried, the people who lived and worked on the waterways, and the horses that pulled their boats. Peer down into a huge Victorian ice well used to store ice imported from Norway and brought by ship and canal boat to be stored. The museum is housed in a former ice warehouse built in about 1862-3 for Carlo Gatti, the famous ice cream maker, and features the history of the ice trade and ice cream as well as the canals. This is the only London museum of inland waterways.
Located at: New Wharf Road,
London,
N1
Telephone: 020 7713-0836
Opens: 1000 - 1630 Tuesdays to Sundays plus bank holiday Mondays (public holidays). CLOSED on all other Mondays
Cost: Adult admission is £2.50. Children, students, seni
Closest Subway Station: Kings Cross Station
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