London and Shoreham Great Ship Canal Company

been built, would have been detrimental to Shoreham, as it would have lost its shipbuilding industry and trade to London. Also the environmental impact in terms of damage to the agricultural land around Shoreham would have been great. The scheme when put before the commissioners of Shoreham Harbour was rejected and the project eventually abandoned.

work to every unemployed man in London. It was then further proposed that once the canal was complete, these men would receive continued work, building a road from Shoreham to London alongside the canal.

This massive project, were it to have

Judy Upton

Judy’s Sussex set mystery novel ‘Sniff Them Out Brownlow!’ is out now from Hobart Books.;Refs: Sussex archaeological Collections Vol 27 ;Telegraph Monday 20 January 1908;Civil Engineer And Architect’s Journal of 1856