The River Thames - photos and stories
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A walk along the south bank
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A walk along the north bank
A walk along the foreshore The north bank of the Thames at low tide: bridges, chains, nets and some mudlarking
The River Thames at low tide: mudlarkers, sunbathers and bridges – 30 photos -
Large expanses of rocks, pebbles and bijou sandy beaches are exposed at low tide on the River Thames, and this is when you'll see some people mudlarking - a phrase used to describe anyone poking around in the mud for items of value. These day people are more interested in finding old pipes, bits of
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A walk along the north bank
A walk along the foreshore The north bank of the Thames at low tide: bridges, chains, nets and some mudlarking
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
What's this building? It reminds me a bit of Strawberry Hill. Gothic I guess.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
Trinity Hospital, Greenwich. It owns a lot of land in the area. It’s some sort of charitable foundation like an alms house.
The story is that they had an orchard on the left of the photo that they let the omnibus company graze their horses on. After 25 years of free use, or whatever, London Transport claimed title and built the powerstation. The power station is back-up power for the tube.
Anju
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Yes, it was built around 500 years ago to house 20 Greenwich male residents who had financial difficulties.
Looks like they had lovely garden as well.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
I'm not quite sure about all that...
The site was a reasonably substantial depot / stables of the Pimlico, Peckham and Greenwich Street Tramways Company (later merged in to the London Tramways Company) opened in 1871.
The power station was built c. 1905 by the London County Council Tramways, after they took over the private sector tram operators and started electrifying the network.
1890s OS map here
But yes, since LT abandoned its trams and trolleybuses, it became secondary power station for the Underground (at that time Lots Road power station was still in business) and is now back-up power.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
OK, so it might not be a TRUE story, but I like it
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
This thing briefly operated from Tower Bridge to Ostend, was very expensive to use the Thames though so it moved to Ramsgate, used it twice from there to Belgium, was a very nice ride.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Fun in a swell that.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Currently on the quiet bit of the Thames in Oxfordshire on pinkmonkey and eljugs boat. It's quite lovely.
bimble
floofy
The maker of these mudlarking notebooks is an old friend & one of the best people you could ever meet. Now goes by johnny mudlark. He doesn’t have a smartphone & doesnt do internet and now his drawings are getting seen by lots of people anyway.
currently some are on show inside southward cathedral. I only know cos he sent me a postcard.
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This makes me very happy.
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currently some are on show inside southward cathedral. I only know cos he sent me a postcard.
LARKING: The Thames and Beyond - Southwark Cathedral
An exhibition to celebrate the release of A Field Guide to Larking by Lara Maiklem, author of the bestselling Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames
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This makes me very happy.
Thames Festival Trust - Foragers of the Foreshore - Thames Festival Trust
MUDLARK | Noun – a person who gains a livelihood by searching for iron, coal, old ropes etc. in mud or low tide. Dig deep into the history of mudlarking with Thames Festival Trust.
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Was it a case of the Thames route not being profitable enough, or the boat type being charged higher fees than traditional ones?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Soviet fleet on the Thames (Part 1) - London Reconnections
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Capitalist hydrofoils strike back! (Part 2) - London Reconnections
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Dunno, I think they had to pay the Port of London some fees which were quite a bit more than Ramsgate (and Dover; one of my trips on it was from Dover, not two from Ramsgate, I now recall), and maybe the extra fuel and time it took vs the coastal ports just didn't make it work.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I have fond memories of that boat on the upper Thames with the delightful hosts. All the best to you all x
Sasaferrato
We've been together now for twenty years...
Guy feeding birds just down from
TopCat
Putin fanboy
He loves it.
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Very sad and so easily avoided River Thames: Mounds of wet wipes reshaping waterway
I'm afraid there are some people that just don't care, no matter how much these problems are publicised.
