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The late afternoon light transformed the Thames and its neighbours. There are shades of Monet’s paintings of London at the turn of the twentieth century, with mist in…
As any fule knows, London has a whole lot of rivers that flow through it into the Thames. Some are better known than others, the old “street of…
Essex Street takes you down from the Strand to the Embankment by Middle Temple. At the south end of the street is this old Water Gate built in…
If you are looking for something to do in London that costs nowt you could worse than cross the Thames on the Woolwich Ferry. First some expectation management….
I walked south from North Woolwich under the Thames via the foot tunnel. Unlike its neighbour in Greenwich, this foot tunnel takes you from one rough and un-celebrated…
Imagine living here on the edge of the Thames in a house that is not only beautiful but a couple of centuries old and shaped by the memory…
A stout and well established riverside pub in Strand-On-The-Green, the Bull’s Head looks uncompromisingly across the water to its more prosperous neighbours in Kew. The Kew Railway Bridge…
Designed by Alexander Binnie, an engineer who was also responsible for the Blackwall Tunnel and Vauxhall Bridge, the Greenwich foot tunnel connects Greenwich on the south bank to…
When a young David Cameron first faced veteran Tony Blair as Leader of the Opposition at Prime Minister’s Question Time in 2005, he famously scored a withering put…
There are parts of London that have been ravaged beyond despair by the Luftwaffe working in tandem with post-war developers and Lower Thames Street is one of them….