Month: May 2014

The Rivers Thames and Severn have been connected by the Thames & Severn Way. A footpath has been marked out by volunteers from the Cotswold Canals Trust. It mainly follows the towpaths of the Stroudwater Navigation and Thames & Severn Canal between Lechlade on the Thames and Framilode on the Severn but in places deviates […]

Guiding Lights exhibition at Greenwich’s National Maritime Museum marks the 500th anniversary of Trinity House. The Corporation of Trinity House, first recognised by Henry VIII on 20 May 1514, looks after our lighthouses and buoys. It had started in March 1513 in nearby Deptford where mariners were unhappy about unregulated and unreliable pilots in the […]

A London Pub For Every Occasion is published today May Day highlighting 161 of the capital’s 7,000 pubs. The delight of this book is not just the choices but the pictures by Anna Hurley. Her Cutty Sark pub picture shows the lovely bow window above the cobbles. Other Thames pubs mentioned are The Dog & […]