Updates

Eel Pie Island summer open weekends are Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 June and Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 July. The island, reached from the Twickenham bank, is open 11am-6pm.

St Peter’s Church in Wallingford is marking St Peter & St Paul’s Day on Sunday 29 June with Evensong sung by Wallingford Parish Choir. The Georgian church with its candle snuffer tower is the town’s landmark seen from the river but the church does not have regular services nor is it often open. A collection […]

A agreed plan to divert the Thames Path back on to the historic towpath at Maidenhead has suddenly been reversed. The decision was taken on Thursday evening by Windsor & Maidenhead Council. Instead a pavement will be created in Ray Mede Road to make following the the road along the inland side of Bridge View […]

The Rivers Thames and Severn have been connected by the Thames & Severn Way. A footpath has been marked out by volunteers from the Cotswold Canals Trust. It mainly follows the towpaths of the Stroudwater Navigation and Thames & Severn Canal between Lechlade on the Thames and Framilode on the Severn but in places deviates […]

Guiding Lights exhibition at Greenwich’s National Maritime Museum marks the 500th anniversary of Trinity House. The Corporation of Trinity House, first recognised by Henry VIII on 20 May 1514, looks after our lighthouses and buoys. It had started in March 1513 in nearby Deptford where mariners were unhappy about unregulated and unreliable pilots in the […]

A London Pub For Every Occasion is published today May Day highlighting 161 of the capital’s 7,000 pubs. The delight of this book is not just the choices but the pictures by Anna Hurley. Her Cutty Sark pub picture shows the lovely bow window above the cobbles. Other Thames pubs mentioned are The Dog & […]

The National Trail staff has published a useful list of toilet and water points on the Thames Path.      

The arches on Payne’s and Borthwick Wharf at Deptford are being preserved as part of the massive redevelopment. They are often likened to a Venetian facade so the Venice Preserv’d Restoration play is being staged there until Sunday 8 June. Full details of the play, tickets and where to meet (it’s nearby in Greenwich) can […]

Thames Admirer has some interesting before and after flood photographs of the river above Oxford.

On May Day Thursday 1 May the traditional Jack in the Green will be on the Thames Path as it leaves the Dog & Bell in Deptford’s Prince Street at 11.30am. The Jack will be dressed the night before from 8pm. The pub is on the Thames Path, behind Convoys Wharf, and the May Day […]