Radio 4′s Any Questions? comes from Cookham tonight which reminds us that the Cookham Festival starts today and runs to Bank Holiday Monday 4 May. The Sunday service on Radio 4 is coming live from Cookham Church this weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of Stanley Spencer’s death. Canon David Winter who is preaching at [...]
Today’s Good Friday edition of The Times has a report on a plaque unveiled at Teddington marking the site where the newspaper’s founder John Walter lived in retirement from 1795 until his death in 1812. I was unaware of this important part of Teddington’s heritage. Sadly the house was pulled down in 1923. It’s interesting [...]
One of the features of the River Thames are the church towers which downstream are aids to shipping and upstream landmarks on the Thames Path. St Sampson’s in Cricklade can be seen far away. The Thames Path passes the Southwark Cathedral gateway and Easter Day’s Choral Eucharist is being broadcast from there live on BBC1 [...]
Henley-on-Thames’ many unique assets include the offices of the Open Spaces Society in Bell Street. Its general secretary Kate Ashbrook has always defended the rights of way along both sides of the nearby Thames. But Kate of course has a wider brief keeping watch on paths and commons which may be suddenly fenced off in [...]