Eel Pie Island has announced that its annual December open days will be over the weekend Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 December; 10.30am-5.30pm. Lots of crafts will be for sale including pottery, cartoons, paintings, prints and jewellery. The island is accessed by footbridge from the Twickenham bank. It will, as now, be full moon with […]
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The swing bridge at the mouth of Deptford Creek is in place on the Greenwich bank. The landing on the Deptford side will be in front of Munure’s Turkish cafe which has tables outside. Installation work continues on both sides.
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Drop for a drink at The Perch if you are next on the Oxford’s Port Meadow towpath before Christmas. The 17th-century thatched pub is going to close in the New Year and not reopen until Easter. It has had lots of unexpected setbacks including being badly damaged by fire in 1977 and 2007. Earlier this year it […]
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The Princess Royal has officially opened the newly redoubled railway line from Kemble to Swindon. This is an important transport link for those who will arrive at the station having completed the walk from London. The station is very handy for the Thames Source but in recent years many have had a long wait in […]
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The latest Grand Designs on Channel 4 sees Kevin McCloud visit Marlow where a couple are struggling to build the first floating house by the River Thames. The location is the lock island reached only by a footbridge . The site faces south so the new building, replacing a single storey house, is not seen from the […]
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Wilderness Walks with Ray Mears on ITV tonight sees Ray Mears exploring the River Thames. Using a canoe, he visits Chimney Meadows and Hartslock Woods on his way downstream. Wilderness Walks with Ray Mears: ITV Tuesday 14 October at 7.30pm.
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Richard Morrison writing in The Times today says that Magna Carta Island has this week been sold to a Chinese family . The price is believed to be £3.95m. The Thames island lies alongside Runnymede which has the Magna Carta monument. However, it is thought that the charter was probably sealed on the island with refreshments […]
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It appears that George Clooney and new wife Amal Alamuddin may have purchased Aberlash House on a Thames island at Sonning near Reading. The 17th-century Aberlash House is usually known as Mill House because it was the home of the mill owner. Just before the First World War it was bought by Godfrey Phillimore, son […]
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Hops are growing next to the Thames Path on the Greenwich Peninsula. They have been planted by Greenwich’s Meantime Brewery which claims it to be “the first permanent hop farm in London in over 100 years”. The harvesting, or hopping, gathered 9lbs of hop buds for the yet to be named brew being produced […]
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Kingston’s Coronation Stone stands slightly ignored outside the Guildhall. In The Daily Telegraph Philip Johnson compares it to the Stone of Scone which fits under the Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey but is kept in Scotland. He suggests that, should the Scots vote yes, the Kingston stone should get a higher profile. What he does […]
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