Thursday 18 September has long been in the calendar as Scotland’s Referendum Day. But is also the start the much-planned 104 mile Thames Pilgrim Way walk being undertaken by the soon to retire Bishop of Oxford. Over ten days there will be a lot of people walking downstream with the Bishop through the Oxford Diocese. […]
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Piers Plowright’s delightful Thames Crossings series can be heard this week daily at 1.45pm on BBC Radio 4. Today he explores Port Meadow.
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Here are some pictures of the Richmond area towpath this month.
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My weekend in Richmond allowed me time to find some places to include in the Thames Path refreshment list. KEW First, there is of course the wonderful Maids of Honour teashop in Kew which is well worth a visit. This is a real teashop with the additional attraction of its tarts made to a secret […]
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Should you stay in a comfortable hotel or the nearest bed and breakfast when walking the Thames Path? There is a trend for people to want luxury after a long day of walking although walking need not always be a hardship. Thanks to a surprise win in a Britain magazine competition I have just spent […]
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A man has been saved by Chiswick RNLI lifeboat crew who pulled him from the River Thames at Battersea where he was clinging onto a houseboat mooring chain. The lifeboat was led by a beam from a police helicopter to the man who was placed on board and handed to ambulance staff waiting on the slipway by […]
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A bottle filled with water from near the Thames source is making its way downstream as part of the Totally Thames programme. Totally Thames is the rebranded and much extended annual Thames Festival. The journey started last Sunday 17 August. This bank holiday weekend 23-25 August the bottle travels from Benson Lock to Henley. On […]
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Next Wednesday 20 August those who died in the Marchioness tragedy will be remembered during the services at Southwark Cathedral. It will be 25 years since the early morning accident on the River Thames. The cathedral, which is a short distance downstream from the scene of the collision, has the memorial just inside the main […]
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This week has seen a glimpse of the future. A ribbon across a kissing gate on Mucking Marshes was cut on Thursday marking the ‘opening’ of the Thames Estuary Path. The route is about 30 miles long starting at Southend and ending at Tilbury Ferry. Two sections are awaiting confirmation and fencing. The ceremony was on the west […]
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Rolf Harris moved to Bray because it reminded him of his “river’s-edge home in Perth” Australia. Early this morning, Friday 4 July, he left by boat on his way to downstream Southwark Crown Court where he was due to be sentenced.
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