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The River Thames - photos and stories
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RoyReed
Must fly!
It's the Privy Seal.
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Books, not bombs
Worried about a seal I saw on the Thames a while back, we made enquiries and it turns out they are very common
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The UK’s River Thames has come back to life – with a seal population to prove it
In the 1950s, the Thames was so polluted it was declared biologically dead. But today it’s thriving – and a recent count of baby seals shows how far it has come.
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RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
So jel. I've always wanted to see a seal. I used to work by the river and I was always keeping an eye out but nothing.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
greenwich peninsula (what's now 'north greenwich') 1986
from a series of 'then and now' on a london inheritance blog
BCBlues
Lend us a Twenner
blossie33
trailer trash
Is that near Three Mills?
Quite scary the amount of building going on in that area now!
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I'm sure a seagull would not have waited to be asked to share your lunch.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
About halfway between Three Mills and the Thames, so right where the Lea turns into Bow Creek.
Puddy_Tat
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TopCat
Putin fanboy
I'm staying relatively sober today. I have a lot more respect for the tidal Thames after working on the river last year. I had to do a load of safety stuff and know the grisly reality of making mistakes. That said it's looking perfect and I am with another person . Low tide at 10:00 at Putney, go on the up tide, it's beautiful going past Kew Gardens and Syon Park. Then lunch and pint in the London Apprentice and float back on the ebb tide. Really looking forward to it. Everyone is so nice on the river.
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Thought this would be most likely to interest people on this thread - Thames21 have published a list of events in celebration of London Rivers Week which takes place in July - guided walks, river cleanups, removing damaging invasive plant species etc.
(I'll also try to remember to post about it separately nearer the time!)
(I'll also try to remember to post about it separately nearer the time!)
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steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
Flying boats on the Thames (a fairly common sight until the late forties, some visible even in early eighties):
From top; a Fairey Seaplane full of newspapers, bound for Kent, c. 1911; Alan Cobham lands his "Gypsy Moth" seaplane in 1926 after a 27,000 mile round trip to Australia; Short Calcutta of Imperial Airways on the Thames in 1928; BOAC Short Solent by Tower Bridge, early 1950s; the last Short Sandringham by HMS Belfast, 1984.
From top; a Fairey Seaplane full of newspapers, bound for Kent, c. 1911; Alan Cobham lands his "Gypsy Moth" seaplane in 1926 after a 27,000 mile round trip to Australia; Short Calcutta of Imperial Airways on the Thames in 1928; BOAC Short Solent by Tower Bridge, early 1950s; the last Short Sandringham by HMS Belfast, 1984.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
london bridge, 1957 - looks like morning rush hour, as most people are walking north across the bridge.
from teh tweeter.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
london bridge, 1957 - looks like morning rush hour, as most people are walking north across the bridge.
from teh tweeter.
Cranes that far upstream, never knew that.
T & P
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I wonder if they had to raise Tower Bridge to let that last couple of fellas sail through. Which would be somewhat ironic.
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
Also a gratuitous picture of the Solent’s military ancestor, the Short Sunderland, parked up on the Thames for the Festival of Britain:
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hiraethified
Weird how that sort of looks old and futuristic at the same time!
blossie33
trailer trash
A cruise ship coming up the Thames to Tower Bridge tomorrow, Saturday 18th if anyone's interested and in the area ...
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Cruise ship to pass through Tower Bridge
A note that a large cruise ship, the Silver Wind will pass through Tower Bridge today.
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