City Road Basin leads off to the left foreground. This was the biggest trading basin on the Regent's canal. What is left is about two-thirds of the original basin. At one stage it was the base for FMC's steam-powered fly-boat services to Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham. The former lock cottage (centre, behind the trees) is now the offices of IWAAC. At the time of writing (December 2001) a new development is being built on the far left of the area shown in this shot.