Greenfields Nursery School and Children’s Centre in Southall, west London is located close to the great man-made waterway that is the Grand Union Canal, and this year its children helped establish the first Children’s Sculpture Garden on its banks.
The canal, originally named the Grand Junction Canal until joining the Regent’s Canal around 1930, was opened in 1800, and the main section runs from Brentford, where it joins the Thames, to Birmingham. It has ‘arms’ leading to Leicester, Slough, Northampton and, of course, runs through London where it joins the Thames again at Limehouse. Now used mainly for leisure traffic, the canal was originally built during the Industrial Revolution to transport cargos of, among other things, coal, timber, iron, silk, cotton and spices on horse-drawn barges.
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