River levels 'falling' after heavy rain hits Royal Borough - Maidenhead Advertiser
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Jubilee River - a River Thames flood defence - was in action over the
weekend as the Royal Borough was hit by rain and rising water levels. ...
Thursday 31 December 2020
River levels 'falling' after heavy rain hits Royal Borough - Maidenhead Advertiser
Tier 4: Can I still go fishing in lockdown, how many people can I meet with and do you need a fishing licence?
... You also need permission from the landowner to fish on private land and an additional licence to fish in locks or weirs on the River Thames. ...
France mobilises 100,000 COPS to smash illegal New Year's Eve celebrations as the world goes into Covid shutdown
... People have been banned from watching the famed fireworks display at the London Eye on the River Thames. ...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's first episode of their £30m podcast ranked below whale noises | Daily Mail Online
... Estuary is an accent associated with the area along the River Thames and its estuary, including London. ...
All Quiet in Dover: The Calm Before Brexit’s Border Storm - Bloomberg
All Quiet in Dover: The Calm Before Brexit’s Border Storm - Bloomberg
... Container volumes traveling between the port of Tilbury, on the River Thames east of London, and Zeebrugge, Belgium, have increased by a fifth in December as firms sought alternatives to the short straits. P&O Ferries Ltd. has added an additional ship to the route to cope with demand. ...
The most ridiculous moments in British politics in 2020 | indy100
The most ridiculous moments in British politics in 2020 | indy100:
STAY ALERT
After the first lockdown, the government decided that things were starting to get back to normal and lifted the Covid-19 restrictions. This brought to an end the easy to understand government warning slogan of 'Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Stay Safe.' They replaced this with the less obvious and slightly more ambiguous 'Stay Alert, Control the Virus, Save Lives' which is about as clear as the River Thames. As a result, the reaction to this new slogan wasn't exactly enthusiastic.
EastEnders 2020 quiz: How well can you remember the events of the past year? - MyLondon
EastEnders 2020 quiz: How well can you remember the events of the past year? - MyLondon
... A tragedy then occurred on the River Thames as one person lost their life after a fatal boat crash which sent ripples through the square. ...
London Resort: First look at 'Britain's Disneyland' as £3.5bn theme park brought to life - Daily Star
... A thrilling new picture provides more detail into the enormous eco-friendly theme park labelled "the UK's answer to Disneyland" which could open on the River Thames in just four years. ...
... The eco-friendly site will deliver a "net biodiversity gain" and create a green network of amenity areas and parkland to include areas of environmental enhancement and wildlife habitat creation beside the River Thames to benefit both resort guests and local residents. ...
New Year's Eve 2020 LIVE: New Zealand celebrates 2021 with massive firework display - World News - Mirror Online
... While London usually marks one of the biggest firework displays in the world, this year the banks of the River Thames will fall eerily quiet as millions across England are now in Tier 4 restrictions ...
Saturday 19 December 2020
Thames Path - Transport for London
Thames Path - Transport for London
The Thames Path:
79 miles, divided into four sections on both the north and south bank:
from Richmond’s lost floodplains to the Dickensian stretches of the
eastern marshes
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Thurrock MP Jackie Doyle-Price promotes ports in Thurrock - Your Thurrock
Thurrock MP Jackie Doyle-Price promotes ports in Thurrock - Your Thurrock
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In that vein, I wish to talk about how we come back out of this
crisis and to advise the House about the exciting plans we are making in
Thurrock in our bid for a Thames estuary freeport, led by the ports of
Tilbury and London Gateway. Members have often heard me claim that Thurrock is the port capital of the UK.
As a centre of excellence for ports and logistics, there is no stronger
case to be made than for a freeport to be located in
Thurrock—[Interruption.] I am sure that my hon. Friend Sir David Amess will
fully agree with that. It is the natural evolution of the role of the
Thames as an engine of wealth creation and prosperity. We sit here in
this Parliament on the Thames. London is a great capital city, one of
the richest cities in the world, but it is located here only because of
the Thames and because the Romans set up the port of Londinium. So it
makes great sense in the natural evolution of history—of exploiting our River Thames and
our position as a maritime nation—to make sure we continue that
evolution and establish the Thames estuary freeport in Thurrock. ...
100 general knowledge quiz questions to test your friends and family - Cambridgeshire Live
100 general knowledge quiz questions to test your friends and family - Cambridgeshire Live
... 13. Where would you find the River Thames? ...
Three winter art walks you can enjoy in England this weekend | The Art Newspaper
Three winter art walks you can enjoy in England this weekend | The Art Newspaper
... Further highlights include Larry Achiampong's site-specific audio work within the cable cars that transport you across the River Thames, which uses oral histories to respond to the legacies of the former British Empire on the areas along the Docklands; and Alex Chinnek's precariously balanced A Bullet From a Shooting Star (2015), which resembles an inverse electric pylon and pays tribute to the Greenwich Peninsula's former life as the home of Europe's largest oil and gas tanks. ...
Glasgow Science Centre explains the magic behind snowflakes | Glasgow Times
Glasgow Science Centre explains the magic behind snowflakes | Glasgow Times
... IT is said that Charles Dickens is single-handedly responsible for our dreams of white Christmases with treetops glistening in the snow. Dickens was born in 1812 during the coldest decade of the 19th century when the winters were so cold it was known to freeze over the river Thames, it is even referred to as a ‘Mini ice age’ in some scientific texts. ...
Plans revealed for Park Hyatt London River Thames at Nine Elms | TOPHOTELNEWS
Plans revealed for Park Hyatt London River Thames at Nine Elms | TOPHOTELNEWS
... The 203-room Park Hyatt London River Thames is set to open in R&F UK’s new Nine Elms mixed-use development on the south bank of the river in 2022. ...
Friday 18 December 2020
Alexander McQueen Debuts New Fashion Film For SS21 Collection
Alexander McQueen Debuts New Fashion Film For SS21 Collection
Photos courtesy of Alexander McQueen.
Over the course of the pandemic, labels have been getting creative with their socially-distanced fashion shows. Yesterday, the British luxury house Alexander McQueen joined in and launched their SS21 Collection in the form of a Fashion Film titled First Light. Directed by the filmmaker Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin and Birth), the video will serve as the SS21 Fashion Show and will showcase women’s SS21 and men’s Pre-AW21 looks. The melancholic and eerie five-minute film shows models wading through the River Thames in floor-length dresses, getting muddy in soft pink gowns, and having a picnic in leather trousers and cinched waist blazers. “Shape, silhouette and volume, the beauty of the bare bones of clothing stripped back to its essence – a world charged with emotion and human connection,” says the creative director Sarah Burton of the collection. The film is a cinematic ode to London with a luxurious wardrobe to match.
Best of February 2020 : Julia Fullerton-Batten : Old Father Thames
Best of February 2020 : Julia Fullerton-Batten : Old Father Thames
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The River Thames is not even the longest river in the British Isles
and a mere pygmy in comparison with many other rivers in the world, yet
its significance to British and world history is immense. The river
starts as a small trickle in hills to the north west of London and
travels for nearly 450 km through the south of England, the centre of
London and thence out into
the North Sea via the Thames estuary, passing some of England’s most picturesque towns and villages
on its way.
London is one of the major cities of the world today, but it would not have existed if it were not for the River Thames passing through it. Just before the Thames reaches London it becomes tidal and formed a natural harbour such that London has been a port since pre-Roman times. Still today, the Thames acts as an artery of communication and trade route between Britain and the rest of the world.
As a teenager I moved from Germany to live in Oxford on the banks of the River Thames, though the stretch of the river there is called Isis, and the Thames has been a fascination for me ever since. I now live in West London but am still just a short walk from the river. Its constantly changing face with the tide and the seasons, the activities on and around the river are for me compulsive viewing and inspiration. But above all there is the history of the Thames along its entire length with an infinite variety of stories that encompass birth, baptism, death, flooding, sun-bathing on the shore, the story of the ‘Ladies Bridge’, messages in a bottle, riverside scavenging youngsters, prostitution, damaged masterpieces, and countless other whimsical, idiosyncratic and tragic happenings.
I am not alone in my admiration of the glories of the river. Notably, it has been an inspiration to many painters. There are more paintings of the River Thames than I had ever imagined could be possible. Monet painted the river repeatedly. Turner too captured the working river even revealing the early nineteenth century fumes and smoke from the city’s factories and river traffic. Whistler was yet another. In the 1860s and 70s he was drawn to paint the bustling and rapidly changing urban neighbourhoods close to the river. But when one views all these works, it is not at all difficult to understand why they all found it such an attractive, potent subject matter. ...
... Baptism is a very important activity in those faiths immersed in New Testament belief. It is a public affirmation of faith, and is done before a group of people who witness the candidate’s confession of faith in Jesus Christ. It is the rite in the Christian Church by which immersion in water symbolizes the washing away of sins and admission into the Church. For many centuries full immersion baptisms were performed by Baptists in the non-tidal section of the River Thames upstream from London. It was one of the more ancient rituals on the river. Several hundred people would congregate to watch the open-air ceremony. My image was shot in the ancient town of Cricklade in Wiltshire 100 miles distant from London where the ceremony still took place on a space known as Hatchett’s Ford at the beginning of the twentieth century. Even today baptism ceremonies take place along the Thames on personal request ...
... In January 2006, a juvenile female northern bottlenose whale was found swimming in the
River Thames in central London. Approximately five metres long, she
weighed about seven tonnes. Her normal habitat would have been on the
coast of the far north of Scotland and Northern Ireland, or in the
Arctic Ocean. It was the first time a whale had ever been seen in the
River Thames since records began in 1913. Sadly, the whale died the next
day from a seizure as she was being rescued. Her skeleton is now
exhibited at the Natural History Museum. ...
... This was the name given in the12th Century to a row of ancient tumbledown cottages nestled against the south wall of the churchyard of St Nicholas Church in Chiswick, then a small village on the boundary of London. The street lead to a landing place for a ferry over the River Thames, which was then the only crossing point for miles. The inhabitants of the street were fishermen, watermen, and small traders; their families lived in extreme poverty. Although the street was named ‘Slut’s Hole’, with obvious inferences according to modern-day terminology it is also suggested that the name was derived from the ancient word for ‘sluice’. ...
... The River Thames is a favoured location for internationally renowned boat races, not only the annual University Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge but also The Great River Race over 21.6 miles from London Docklands to Ham in Surrey. This race attracts annually several hundred crews from all over the globe. Yachting and rowing clubs line the banks of the river. Every day of the week and especially at weekends yachtsmen and rowers can be seen enjoying their hobby, whatever the weather. ...
... Flooding has occurred along the River Thames for millennia. As the size of London and its population grew, the effects of flooding grew more intense, causing considerable damage to homes, the land, disruption to people’s lives and death. High walls, now called The Embankment, were built along the banks of the river in London in the 18th Century but flooding still occurred. Only when the Thames Barrier became operational in 1982 could the potential for flood waters reaching London be successfully controlled. ...
... Durga Puja is celebrated enthusiastically wherever Bengalis have cast their roots in London and other cities throughout the UK. But, for health and safety considerations Bengalis living in London have only infrequently been permitted to perform the immersion ceremony on the banks of the River Thames. But this year, thanks to the cooperation of the Bengali charity organisation, London Sharad Utsav, and by special permission of the Port of London Authorities, I was able to shoot a recreation of this Bengali ‘bhashaan’ceremony on the banks of the Thames close to Putney Bridge. ...
... With our present concerns about global warming, it may be a surprise to many to learn that the northern hemisphere was in the grip of a ‘Little Ice Age’ between the 17th century and early 19th century. During this period the River Thames froze over in 24 winters. On six occasions beginning in 1608 and ending in 1814, the ice was thick enough for Londoners to set up tents and hold the famous Frost Fairs.
Even back then, it was apparent that the construction of the ‘Old’
London Bridge was a root cause for the build-up of ice as its many
narrow arches reduced the flow of water and ice was more prone to form.
When the bridge was demolished in 1831 and replaced by the ‘New’ London
Bridge it was built with much wider arches. Combined with other changes
made to improve the flow of the river freezing over of the tidal part
of the River Thames became a thing of the past and so the Frost Fair of
1814 was the last one Londoners have experienced. ...
London to welcome 2021 with unique broadcast on BBC One | London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
... More than 100,000 spectators usually gather to watch a fireworks display along the banks of the River Thames when Big Ben strikes midnight, but, with London now placed in Tier 3 restrictions and infection rates rising across the city, there will be no public event this year. ...
Friday 11 December 2020
Dreaming of the London ‘Frost Faire’ of 1565 | Guest Viewpoint | Port Townsend Leader
Dreaming of the London ‘Frost Faire’ of 1565 | Guest Viewpoint | Port Townsend Leader
... Only 20 times, the River Thames froze over in the heart of old London, allowing citizens to walk boldly off the riverbanks and frolic on the Thames itself. ...
... History does not tell us how well that worked. But it’s clear that –– on a few rare days — one could gaze across the River Thames and see a spontaneous city lit with fire on ice. ...
Sadiq Khan under growing pressure to axe Silvertown road tunnel | London | The Guardian
Sadiq Khan under growing pressure to axe Silvertown road tunnel | London | The Guardian
... The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, is coming under renewed pressure to abandon plans for a new four-lane road tunnel under the River Thames after another Labour MP came out in opposition to the scheme. ...
Thames safety warning after film-maker has to be rescued from river | London | The Guardian
Thames safety warning after film-maker has to be rescued from river | London | The Guardian
... Police and rescue workers have warned against jumping from Tower Bridge into the River Thames after a man understood to be making a film had to be rescued from the water by two bystanders. ...
... City of London police said they were called out on Sunday at about 11.55am to “reports that a man, 27, had jumped into the River Thames from Tower Bridge”. ...
... It warned that jumping into the River Thames from a bridge “for your own entertainment or to entertain others” is extremely dangerous and is a serious risk to the life of anyone who attempts it. ...
FLO and Ursula complete Tideway's central tunnel
FLO and Ursula complete Tideway's central tunnel
... Mark Sneesby, chief operating officer of client organisation Tideway, said: “This is an important day for everyone on the Tideway project, as well as for Londoners and the River Thames. With around four fifths of the tunnelling now complete, everyone on Tideway is focussed on getting this job done safely and delivering a cleaner Thames for the city.” ...
Thousands back campaign to stop polluting Thames | Oxford Mail
Thousands back campaign to stop polluting Thames | Oxford Mail
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Raw sewage in the River Thames
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The secret island on the River Thames that the Vikings tried and failed to conquer - MyLondon
The secret island on the River Thames that the Vikings tried and failed to conquer - MyLondon
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Floating pop-up cafe launched by friends (and family) - Henley Standard
Floating pop-up cafe launched by friends (and family) - Henley Standard
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A “FLOATING” pop-up café has been launched on the River Thames in Henley. ...
Watch the wintery new video for Liam Gallagher's 'All You're Dreaming Of'
Watch the wintery new video for Liam Gallagher's 'All You're Dreaming Of'
... The former Oasis frontman released the festive track late last month, and has since performed it live on The Jonathan Ross Show and as part of his Down By The River Thames live-stream. ...
... In a five-star review of Down By The River Thames, NME wrote: “We’re missing fans, flares, hurled pints and crowd chants, but this is without doubt the next best thing. ...
Great Western Community Forest sets target of planting half a million trees | Swindon Advertiser
Great Western Community Forest sets target of planting half a million trees | Swindon Advertiser
... The GWCF is a long-term programme to enrich landscapes. With Swindon at its heart, the forest covers over 168 square miles, stretching from the North Wessex Downs to the River Thames. ...
Flooding fears for Maidenhead and Windsor as essential river repairs delayed until spring - Berkshire Live
... “Flood protection to Maidenhead, Windsor and Eton will be reinstated when the first phase of repairs are completed. During the period between the completions of the two phases, should river conditions worsen, we will use interim operating procedures to carefully manage flows between the main river Thames and the Jubilee channel.” ...
Hyatt Plans Big Expansion in Europe by 2023
Hyatt Plans Big Expansion in Europe by 2023
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The 203-room Park Hyatt London River Thames in London, one of Europe’s top places to visit, which will be the first Park Hyatt hotel in the U.K.
Park Hyatt London River Thames in London. ...
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