#Thames

David McAllister

Dr_D_McAllister

Since lockdown began, and my horizons shrunk, the Thames has become central to my experience of London than it has been in the last 20 or so years of living

London's Canals

Londoncanals

Hammersmith bridge closure means no river traffic allowed underneath which means the Thames is effectively cut off. If people want to reach the non-tidal Thames they'll have to go via

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archidave

In about 2005 a Chinese delegation came to Bristol and used it as an architectural buffet for "Thames Town" on the outskirts of Shanghai. Here's their interpretation of the C17th

The Cat From Greece

acatfromgreece

Including tonight, I have put on this uniform eleven times after an officer was killed because they wore it.Eleven times. PC Stephen Carroll, PSNI. PC Ronan Kerr, PSNI. PC Ian

Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🇳🇱 🥪

CliveWismayer

Of all the things said about Johnson (liar, charlatan, clown, conman, idler etc.) perhaps the one that should stand out most is: his incompetence. Many have described him thus. It

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

Tianducheng (杭州天都城), pictured below, is a city in China modeled after Paris. It is almost completely abandoned now. See the thread for more replicas! This is a replica of London's

Eddie

lavalampbamboo

Out for an early urban walk through London this morning. Gonna be headed over the river and along to Island Gardens. Stay tuned for some moderately interesting facts! So, I

Tim Dunn

MrTimDunn

In 1796, Willey Reveley proposed to straighten out London's River Thames. The meanders would have become docks, and crucially, sailing times would be reduced. But a parliamentary committee ruled against

Liz Anderson 🥂📚🖋🏺📷 🍸

liz_lizanderson

Heart stopping moment when I thought I’d found my first gold coin on the Thames Foreshore (reader, it wasn’t) but still one of my favourite finds from early 2020 before

Louis Barfe

AlanKelloggs

*Best Daphne Oxenford voice* Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. It's fair to say that Jim Davidson was not universally loved by the crew that worked on his inexplicably

Will Hurst

WHurst1

Boris Johnson is currently on @LBC lying again to @NickFerrariLBC about his disastrous Garden Bridge. Far from being a 'viable plan' killed off by Sadiq, it was dead in the

Back in Time West London

OldLondonW14

London has often faced the terrible challenge of disease outbreaks. The smallpox epidemic in 1881 led to a desperate shortage of hospital beds. London’s Metropolitan Asylums Board (MAB) considered housing

Oliver Kirk

Kirknotabout

Today I visited a ghost-town called London.I was there for work for the first time since !arch and it was both shocking and upsetting to see a city which has

London SE1 Community Website

se1

On this day 110 years ago - Southwark & Bermondsey Recorder, 7 October 1910. A few snippets to follow. Notice of forthcoming talk by Alfred Salter on Socialism, Communism, Anarchism

Sky News Breaking

SkyNewsBreak

Thames Valley Police says Counter Terrorism Policing has declared the stabbing attack which took place at a park in Reading as a terror incident Metropolitan Police's the head of counter

the M.S.H

CanUjustFcknNot

The Isle of sheppey is very pretty but I do not recommend cycling therehttps://strava.app.link/V5g7lTJxJ6 Met da boi @suhansr in the morning Disaster strikes as the good mates have a collision,