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===Development=== {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = {{visible anchor|Lee Navigation Improvement Act 1805}} | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom | long_title = | year = 1805 | citation = [[45 Geo. 3]]. c. lxix | introduced_commons = | introduced_lords = | territorial_extent = | royal_assent = | commencement = | expiry_date = | repeal_date = | amends = | replaces = | amendments = | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = | status = | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = | collapsed = yes }} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Lee Navigation Improvement Act 1850 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom | long_title = An Act to alter and amend the Acts relating to the Navigation of the River Lee in the Counties of Hertford, Essex, and Middlesex; and to enable the Trustees further to improve the Navigation and to dispose of the surplus Water; and for other Purposes. | year = 1850 | citation = [[13 & 14 Vict.]] c. cix | introduced_commons = | introduced_lords = | territorial_extent = | royal_assent = 14 August 1850 | commencement = | expiry_date = | repeal_date = | amends = | replaces = | amendments = | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = | status = | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/13-14/109/pdfs/ukla_18500109_en.pdf | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = | collapsed = yes }} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = River Lee Water Act 1855 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom | long_title = An Act for transferring Part of the Property and Powers of the Trustees of the River Lee; and for the Amendment of the Acts of the New River Company, the East London Waterworks Company, and the said Trustees; and for other Purposes. | year = 1855 | citation = [[18 & 19 Vict.]] c. cxcvi | introduced_commons = | introduced_lords = | territorial_extent = | royal_assent = 14 August 1855 | commencement = | expiry_date = | repeal_date = | amends = | replaces = | amendments = | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = | status = | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/18-19/196/pdfs/ukla_18550196_en.pdf | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = | collapsed = yes }} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Lee Conservancy Act 1868 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom | long_title = | year = 1868 | citation = [[31 & 32 Vict.]] c. cliv | introduced_commons = | introduced_lords = | territorial_extent = | royal_assent = | commencement = | expiry_date = | repeal_date = | amends = | replaces = | amendments = | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = | status = | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = | collapsed = yes }} There were further improvements throughout the 19th century, including the '''{{visible anchor|Lee Navigation Improvement Act 1850}}''' ([[13 & 14 Vict.]] c. cix) to authorise new lock cuts at [[Hoddesdon]], [[Carthagena Lock]] ([[Broxbourne]]), Waltham Marsh, [[Tottenham]], [[Walthamstow]], [[Hackney Marshes|Hackney]], [[Leyton]] and [[Bromley-by-Bow]] and new locks at Hunter's Gate (Bow Bridge) and Old Ford. The '''{{visible anchor|River Lee Water Act 1855}}''' ([[18 & 19 Vict.]] c. cxcvi) authorised a new lock at Amwell Marsh and the removal of [[Stanstead Lock]]. [[Edmonton, London|Edmonton]] Lock was to be removed and [[Pickett's Lock (lock)|Pickett's Lock]] rebuilt. In 1868 the '''{{visible anchor|Lee Conservancy Act 1868}}''' ([[31 & 32 Vict.]] c. cliv) formed the Lee Conservancy Board to take over control of the river from the former trustees. They established the [[Lee Conservancy Police]], who policed the Lee until merged with the [[British Transport Police]] in 1948.<ref>{{cite web|last=Major|first=Graham|title=Canal Policing after 1948|url=http://www.btphg.org.uk/?page_id=3620|work=Website of the British Transport Police History Group|date=29 July 2013 |publisher=British Transport Police History Group|access-date=26 April 2014}}</ref> The Lee Navigation bought the [[Stort Navigation]] in 1911,<ref name=nic/> and instituted further improvements, including reconstruction of the locks between Enfield and Hertford, the width being increased from {{convert|13|to|16|ft|m}}: by the 1930s, 130-ton barges could reach [[London Borough of Enfield|Enfield]], and 100-ton barges to [[Ware, Hertfordshire|Ware]] and [[Hertford]].<ref name=nic/> The navigation was nationalised in 1948, and control passed to the [[British Transport Commission]]. Where possible the locks from [[Bow Locks]] through to [[Ponder's End Lock]] were duplicated and mechanised - the only exception being [[Pickett's Lock (lock)|Pickett's Lock]]. In 1962, the [[British Transport Commission]] was wound up, and control passed to the [[British Waterways|British Waterways Board]]. Commercial traffic effectively ended in the 1980s. During the 1950s horse-drawn [[Lighter (barge)|lighters]] were still journeying as far as [[Hertford]]. By 1980 commercial traffic extended no higher than the [[Enfield Rolling Mills]] at [[Brimsdown Industrial Estate|Brimsdown]], with just one tug, the ''Vassal'', regularly at work on the river. Powered by a 120 [[Horsepower|hp]] [[L. Gardner and Sons|Gardner diesel engine]], she would typically tow a train of two lighters loaded with timber from [[Bow, London|Bow]] to Hahn's Wharf at [[Edmonton, London|Edmonton]]. There are efforts currently underway to revive commercial traffic on the canal with a plan to transport rubbish for incineration at the [[Edmonton Incinerator]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article521162.ece |title=Canal report |publisher=Times on line |access-date=7 Jan 2008}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
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