Last Sunday’s Countryfile on BBC1 was trailed as featuring Windsor Great Park and the new rowing course on the opposite side of the Thames. A surprise inclusion was a piece on Hurley Lock and boat building with additional shots of Temple Lock and Temple Bridge. The programme, which has wonderful shots of Windsor Castle, can [...]
Meridan TV reports tonight that since the start of the year as many as 150 swans have been found dead on the Thames between Windsor and Reading. Cold weather, lack of food and infections are to blame.
The announcement in today’s Budget Speech that the railway line between Kemble and Swindon is to returned to double track is a surprise. The government has given in to pressure on this as the line could serve as an alternative when weekend rail works close the main line to the Severn tunnel. But in time [...]
The Thames Path between London Bridge and Oxo Tower Wharf is to be improved in time for the 2012 Olympics. The London-SE1 website has the funding information and details. See pages 30-36.
High tides are due in London this weekend. At London Bridge the high tides are Sat 19 March 1.37pm; Sun 2.23pm; Mon 3.06; Tue 3.47pm. High tides also mean low tides at other times which makes the shore extra interesting. Thames Clippers is warning that its services may be disrupted due to available headroom at [...]
HMS Bulwark is moored at Deptford until Monday. The ship, last on the Thames in 2008, has just undergone at £30m refit and will be taking part in sea training exercises before returning home to Plymouth. She will shortly take up her role as UK Flag Ship. See page 18.
The Independent has a feature on Wallingford which often appears as the backdrop for Midsomer Murders. The Manor House at downstream Moulsford is one of the many nearby houses which has appeared in the ITV series. See page 142.
The prospect of the Thames Path being diverted along the front of Chambers Wharf soon has receded following news that Thames Water has purchased the site. The previous development plan has been abandoned and the site could become a works entry for the proposed Thames Tunnel sewerage scheme. The good news is that this might [...]
At Oxford the River Thames flowed through the city not as one river but as a number of streams. It is interesting to see a reference in Fr John Hunwick’s blog on 6 March to Blessed John Henry Newman contributing in 1828 to a fund for “raising the floor-level of S Thomas’s above the flood-level [...]
There is a temporary diversion until the end of April just west of Windsor. At Boveney Church one is directed inland to follow the rowing lake. The return to the Thames is by way of the Dorney Court path. This is to allow the towpath to be improved and vegetation cut back ready for the [...]