News of the very severe fire at Garrick’s Villa in Hampton is a shock. Famous actor Richard Garrick bought the house in 1754 and twenty years later employed Robert Adam to make major alterations. The fire could be seen from the towpath on the opposite bank at midday today. The grounds are divided by the […]
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The Good Pub Guide 2009 published this week highlights as always some Thames pubs. The Baskerville Arms at Shiplake is in the Oxford chapter along with, much further upstream, The Trout at Godstow. This has become expensive and rather too upmarket inrecent years although it is very good to see that bar food is available […]
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A London to sea Thames Estuary Path is now government policy. The Thames Gateway Parklands Vision was launched this week by architect Sir Terry Farrell, the Government’s Parklands design champion, at the Thames Gateway Green Forum. Speaking alongside Sir Terry at the Royal Horticulural Hall, Housing Minister Iain Wright said that urban parks, marshlands, waterways […]
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Demolition has begun on Chambers Wharf ready for a new development which will restore the riverside path along Bermondsey Wall. Chambers Wharf lies between Rotherhithe and St Saviour’s Dock near Tower Bridge. At present walkers have to divert along Chambers Street at the back . On Wednesday Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat MP for Southwark North […]
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