Month: June 2017

Nine Elms Bridge is a proposed foot crossing linking St George’s Square in Pimlico with Nine Elms. It would land on the right bank at a point near the new US Embassy. During the last General Election Labour candidates on both sides of the river strongly opposed the bridge. Marsha de Cordova unexpectedly won Battersea whilst […]

The first Waterloo Bridge was opened 200 years ago on Wednesday 18 June by the Prince Regent. The Georgian granite bridge was to have been called the Strand Bridge but after the Battle of Waterloo victory in 1815 it had to be Waterloo Bridge. The opening, in the presence of the Duke of Wellington, was […]

An attempt is being made to close the Thames riverside path at the Putney end of Wandsworth Park. Residents with gardens abutting the path are seeking to obtain a long lease to prevent the public using the walkway. The path is not part of the Thames Path since the west end runs up against a […]

Canon Giles Goddard, vicar of St John’s Waterloo, has been on the South Bank’s Thames Path to bless its trees. The riverside trees, within his Waterloo parish, are now thought to be safe from being felled for the proposed Garden Bridge. This follows the Mayor London’s decision to withhold all further funding. Planning permission for the controversial crossing lapses later this […]