Prescott Channel
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The Prescott Channel was built in 1930 as part as flood relief for the River Lee Navigation in the East End of London. Rubble from the demolished of the Euston Arch was used in later times to improve the channel.
Work is to begin in March 2007, to build a lock at the channel, to allow Olympic freight for the London 2012 Olympics by making the channel and the River Lee northwards a canal and stopping the tidal flow. The work is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2008[1].
The same source provides a bucolic vision:
As well as helping barges carrying construction materials and recyclables between Stratford and the River Thames, the lock will also create new opportunities for leisure boats, water taxis, trip boats and floating restaurants.
The channel was named after Major Prescott a former Chairman of the Lee Conservancy.
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- East London Record. No. 18 (1996)
