Scene in Covent Garden, Westminster, London mb-artist William_Simpson The Grand Union canal was

The Grand Union canal was built between 1790 and 1929 and is an amalgamation of several canals between Birmingham and London

Cannon Street Railway Bridge and Southwark Bridge

with figures clearing the debris

Above is Caius Gabriel Cibber's allegorical relief on the west side of Monument's base

Scene in Covent Garden, Westminster, London mb-artist William_Simpson The Grand Union canal wasScene in Covent Garden, Westminster, London, 1830. 'One of the afflicting occurrences in life in London, Tom, Jerry and Logic arrested in their progress home by the melancholy discovery of Corinthian Kate in the last stage of consumption, disease & inebriety'. Under the piazzas of Covent Garden a woman is lying in the arms of a man while other figures look on.