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Greenwich’s tourist information centre has won a Gold Award in the Visit England Awards for Excellence 2013. This is the highest accolade which Visit England can bestow. Staff at the centre speak over ten different languages. The Greenwich TIC is the first one which walkers come upon on their walk upstream. It allows local history […]

Prince Charles today announced that Chimney Meadows has been designated Oxfordshire’s Coronation Meadow. There is one in every county although more are due to follow by being seeded from these first ones which mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation. Thames Path runs through lonely Chimney-on-Thames which lies between Newbridge and Lechlade. Within living […]

St Bride’s Church has a wedding cake steeple but at present it is covered up. The church is seen from Bankside and the South Bank.

A new landmark has appeared in the river at Limehouse. It’s life-size metal figure of a man from Antony Gormley’s Another Time series and stands on a mooring post near the shore. The residents of Narrow Street on the north bank have the best view. The man, who at high tide today did not disappear, […]

Eel Pie Island is holding its Summer Open Studios on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June 11am-6pm. This is an opportunity to explore the island, which has a boatyard, and to buy original artwork directly from the resident artists. Credit cards are not accepted. Access is from the Twickenham bank and not the towpath.

You will find Thames Crossings on Radio 4 at 1.45pm all this week from 20 April. It could be described as a bit of  a ramble with Piers Plowright but those know the Thames well will find the references in the first episode fascinating.

Eyot House on D’Oyly Carte Island near Shepperton is for sale. The Sunday Telegraph featured the carefully restored house which was made to look like a Swiss chalet by Richard D’Oyly Carte in the 1890s. The article includes the interesting information that the narrow bridge was only added in 1964 which explains why so many people […]

The Deptford Jack in the Green really will be in Deptford on May Day 2013. Some years the figure surrounded by musicians has been seen upstream in Borough Market. On Wednesday 1 May the Jack will leave the Dog & Bell in Princes Street in Deptford at 12 noon. The Thames Path passes the door. […]

The royal row barge Gloriana, will be rowed from Hampton Court Palace to the Tower of London on Sunday 21 April. This will be part of the Tudor Pull but Sunday is also the Queen’s birthday. The Gloriana and other traditional cutters are expected at Putney about 3pm and should reach the Pool of London about […]

A wonderful exhibition of Eric Fraser’s work has opened at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London’s Ryder Street. Eric Fraser’s black and white drawings were seen regularly in The Radio Times. He was also responsible for the Mr Therm logo of British Gas Council. He lived at Hampton just upstream from Hampton Court. In the […]