Updates

Percy and Mary Shelley took possession of their new home at Marlow in March 1817. So this year is the bicentenary of their summer in Marlow. Albion House in West Street was to be their home for a year although at the time they intended to stay longer having purchased a 21 year lease. They employed […]

Letter in The Times today NEW LONDON BRIDGE Sir, Whatever the case for a Garden Bridge (News, Apr 29, leading article, Apr 29; letters May 1), a better idea might be a reconstruction of the medieval Old London Bridge. Surmounted by rows of shops, it would produce a stream of rental income. Its picturesque appearance, […]

A public consultation on allowing cyclists to use the Thames Path between Reading and Purley has opened. The new dual status would run from the River Kennet oil the east confluence to the Roebuck Hotel near Tilehurst Station in the west. in the west to where it meets the Kennet mouth in the east. Tony Page, […]

May Day Bank Holiday is on the right day this year:  May Day! So on Monday 1 May Deptford’s Jack-in-the-Green will appear outside The Dog & Bell at noon. The pub is in Prince Street behind Convoys Wharf and on the Thames Path between Deptford Creek and Sayes Court Park.

The  PS Tattershall Castle was towed upstream on a falling tide to its new berth on Monday. The move comes three months later than planned. The gangplanks will be in place by the end of May when the 556 ton paddle steamer reopens as a floating pub. The PS Tattershall Castle is opposite the London Eye […]

Britain’s 30 greatest Pub Walks in the Sunday Telegraph is more pubs than walks. But two Thames pubs are featured: The Bulls Head at Barnes  and The Perch at Binsey near Oxford.

The 2017 Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race takes place in the late afternoon this Sunday 2 April. The traditional race is at 5.35pm preceded by the Women’s Race at 4.35pm. So expect the riverside from Putney Bridge to Mortlake to be crowded, especially at Putney, all afternoon. Upstream on the towpath there is usually […]

It’s easy to turn into the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich. The gates on the Thames Path are open daylight hours. From Saturday it will again be possible to go into the magnificent Painted Hall. Its not laid out for dinner because a £8.5m restoration is under way. Instead a temporary […]

Bill Bryson has included Iffley Church in his top fourteen. “This is a splendid Norman church in a village within the city of Oxford,” says the author. “And it is worth visiting for its rich interior and the story of its anchoress (or pious hermit) named Annora, but its particular glory is that it serves […]

The Duke of Gloucester has unveiled a river view interpretation panel outside Southwark Cathedral to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Jubilee Walkway. The Queen inaugurated the Silver Jubilee Walkway during her 1977 Silver Jubilee year. The route has been known as just the Jubilee Walkway since Her Majesty’s Golden Jubilee. The 1977 route follows the […]