Month: September 2014

Kingston’s Coronation Stone stands slightly ignored outside the Guildhall. In The Daily Telegraph Philip Johnson compares it to the Stone of Scone which fits under the Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey but is kept in Scotland. He suggests that, should the Scots vote yes, the Kingston stone should get a higher profile. What he does […]

Thursday 18 September has long been in the calendar as Scotland’s Referendum Day. But is also the start the much-planned 104 mile Thames Pilgrim Way walk being undertaken by the soon to retire Bishop of Oxford. Over ten days there will be a lot of people walking downstream with the Bishop through the Oxford Diocese. […]

Piers Plowright’s delightful Thames Crossings series can be heard this week daily at 1.45pm on BBC Radio 4. Today he explores Port Meadow.  

Here are some pictures of the Richmond area towpath this month.

My weekend in Richmond allowed me time to find some places to include in the Thames Path refreshment list. KEW First, there is of course the wonderful Maids of Honour teashop in Kew which is well worth a visit. This is a real teashop with the additional attraction of its tarts made to a secret […]

Should you stay in a comfortable hotel or the nearest bed and breakfast when walking the Thames Path? There is a trend for people to want luxury after a long day of walking although walking need not always be a hardship. Thanks to a surprise win in a Britain magazine competition I have just spent […]

A man has been saved by Chiswick RNLI lifeboat crew who pulled him from the River Thames at Battersea where he was clinging onto a houseboat mooring chain. The lifeboat was led by a beam from a police helicopter to the man who was placed on board and handed to ambulance staff waiting on the slipway by […]