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At the London Canal Museum you can see inside a narrowboat cabin, learn about the history of London's canals, about the cargoes carried, the people who lived and worked on the waterways, and the horses that pulled their boats. Peer down into the unique heritage of a huge Victorian ice well used to store ice imported from Norway and brought by ship and canal boat to be stored. The museum is an attraction housed in a former ice warehouse built in about 1862-3 for Carlo Gatti, the famous ice cream maker, and features the history of the ice trade and ice cream as well as the canals. This is the only London museum of inland waterways and is situated at King's Cross, an accessible central London location. The Museum is located in New Wharf Road which is about five minutes walk from London's King's Cross Station. The Museum is beside Battlebridge Basin, on the Regent's Canal. King's Cross is one of the easiest places to get to from all parts of London by Underground, local train, and bus.