Month: September 2009

By the end of this week the Thames Path will close between Tate Modern and Blackfriars Bridge and stay closed until New Year 2012. The closure was delayed until the annual Thames Festival last weekend. The riverside work is part of building a south bank entrance to Blackfriars Station which will now span the river […]

Reports of a blaze on Eel Pie Island over the weekend will have concerned many. We all knew it must be serious as a fire boat was called upstream. Unfortunately it was low tide on Saturday night which did not help with pumping. We now know that the house which has burnt down belongs to […]

Walking downstream from Richmond to Kew this afternoon I was surprised to see -I had to look twice- that the lion was missing from the top of Syon House. I wondered about my eyesight. This evening I learn that I was not mistaken. The lion was lifted down in March for restoration. The lion is […]

Very good news on the front page of South East Walker. ‘New path opens up a mile of Thames riverside’ says the headline. I had been waiting for the result of a public inquiry over a disputed path at Shiplake linking the road with the isolated towpath. I can remember in the 1980s walking from […]