Updates

Travelodge has opened Richmond-upon-Thames. The budget hotel,  9 Paradise Road TW9 1RX in the town centre, is handy for the river.

Christina Hardyment grew up in Richmond where she played by the lock and went upstream to Hampton for school. She danced on Eel Pie Island. Later she lived at Ashton Keynes in Wiltshire where you can almost jump across the river. Now the author lives in Oxford where she knows Port Meadow in summer and […]

“The Ramblers of London oppose the Garden Bridge.” said Inner London Ramblers chair Phil Marson speaking at St John’s Waterloo on Monday. He was addressing a packed meeting called to rally opposition to the proposed Garden Bridge and press new London Mayor Sadiq Khan to cancel it. After suggesting that the money involved could be […]

Thames Central Open Spaces is hosting a public meeting to ask new London Mayor Sadiq Khan to reconsider the funding for the proposed Garden Bridge. The meeting is on Monday 16 May at 7pm at St John’s Church Waterloo, opposite the IMAX and near the Garden Bridge site. Local MP Kate Hoey has agreed to […]

A surprise plan has been announced to reopen the Kemble to Cirencester railway line. One of the pleasures on reaching the source of the Thames in a remote Gloucestershire meadow is that there is a railway station nearby. However, many walkers would like to pause at the end rather than catch a train from Kemble […]

Sunday 1 May is May Day when the Deptford Jack in the Green will be seen on the Thames Path. There the Jack, or the ‘Green Man’, is being dressed the night before from 8pm at The Dog & Bell in Prince Street which is also the Thames Path at the back of Convoys Wharf. The […]

This Saturday 23 April is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the place to be is the Thames Path in London. Next to the river on Bankside there is the Shakespeare’s Globe theatre and Southwark Cathedral where Shakespeare’s brother Edmund is buried between the choir stalls. Over the weekend there will be 37 screens […]

The Queen’s 90th birthday on Thursday 21 April will be marked along the Thames. A 62 round gun salute will be fired across the Pool of London from the Tower of London at 1pm. Her Majesty will be at Windsor Castle where she and Prince Philip are due to go into the town. In the evening […]

The largest exhibition of prints by James McNeill Whistler can be seen at the Fine Art Gallery in Bond Street. James McNeill Whistler Prints as expected includes a significant number of Thames scenes. Most are dated around 1859 and so there is Old Putney Bridge and Old Hungerford Bridge. The view from Billingsgate Market shows […]

Paul Daniels has died at his Wargrave home. He moved to the riverside village in 1998 and enjoyed a view across Shiplake as well as experiencing flooding. He and his wife Debbie McGee both loved the Thames and faced the flooding with good humour.