Updates

Prince Street in Deptford is being closed to traffic this month.  This has always been part of the Thames Path and will remain so until a new long planned path is created across Convoys Wharf.  The temporary closure of Prince Street is to assess the possibility of making it permanently traffic-free. The best known building […]

If you are walking into Abingdon on Saturday 3 August you might think of St Ethelwold who knew the Thames. Saturday is St Ethelwold’s Day. In 955 he re-established Abingdon Abbey. He also restored downstream Chertsey Abbey. He died on 1 August 984 and was buried in Winchester. An arm and a leg were taken […]

St Saviour’s Dock footbridge is now back in use although refurbishment work continues. “We still have work to do at dock level …. including minor works to the decking,” say contractors Conway in an update statement. “The unique design of the bridge means that all the parts of the mechanism which facilitate the opening, are […]

Sailor Caroline Crampton who has known the tidal River Thames since childhood set out to explore upstream and downstream. Her book is called The Way To The Sea which means that she starts at the source rather than following the water to see where it comes from. She describes setting out by train to Kemble […]

The Earl of Wessex, Patron of the London Gardens Society, visited the Floating Barges Garden on Wednesday. The garden barges, just downstream of Tower Bridge and Butler’s Wharf, are converted from a variety of vessels including lighters. Yesterday was a dull day but even at low tide the green growth was a striking contrast to […]

“I’m pleased to report on a pub that was turned into a restaurant and has now reverted to being a pub,” writes Tony Hedger in the London Drinker magazine. “The Watermans Arms, an ex-Watney pub next to the Bulls Head in Barnes, closed in the 1980s and became a succession of chain restaurants. It has now […]

On St George’s Day last year Tony Robinson was breakfasting at the Thames Head pub near the source of the River Thames. This week the first of his four films on the river will be on Channel 5. The opening of the series takes him from Kemble in Gloucestershire to Oxford. In episode two he […]

Temple Bridge, between Marlow and Hurley, has reopened. The interesting but slightly long right bank diversion via Bisham Abbey need not now be followed.

Additional work on St Saviour’s Dock in central London has been found necessary so there will have to be a longer than expected closure closure of the footbridge. The earliest that the crossing can be reopened is probably mid July. The alternative route is: At the west end of Bermondsey Wall West, bear left to […]

Victorian designer William Morris was greatly influenced by the River Thames. He had a house by the river at Hammersmith and another near Lechlade on the Gloucestershire-Wiltshire border. In 1880 he spent week sailing upstream from Kelmscott House in London to Kelmscott Manor in rural Oxfordshire. “Here we were in the Thames that is the […]