#the thames

[fountainfae]

London.

[mrkoppa]

25 March 2025 | Oxford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Last walk along the Thames from The Head of the River to Iffley Road, past the canal boat that seems to be in the same place it was when first noted in December 2023. It is not a very common name.

[womblegrinch]

Claude Monet (1840-1926) - Waterloo Bridge

Pastel on paper. Executed in 1901.

12.25 x 19.1 inches, 31 x 48.6 cm. Estimate: £1,000,000-1,500,000.

Sold Christie's, London, 5 March 2025 for £1,855,000 incl B.P.

[haxanbroker]

The City. London, June 2024.

[peaceinthestorm]

James Tissot (1836-1902, French) ~ On the Thames, A Heron, 1866-77

[Source: artvee.com]

[dianadwilder]

Yesterday I went for a walk along the river, it was such a lovely day.

I gathered some driftwood that thankfully is scattered everywhere along the shore. I am going to wait a few days for theses to really dry out and then I’m going to do some artwork with them.

I love the natural shapes and I have so many ideas popping up. Have a happy Friday

[ewegenia]

Bartholomew's service will be held on the northernmost hillock of the cementemary on the grounds of St. Basil's Church of Chicanery and Ghouls. Admission must be accompanied by a mandatory donation of £7 (3 oz).

[royllowarch]

The Highway To Heaven by Roy Llowarch Via Flickr: The London Millennium Footbridge. I love this part of London. Behind me is the Tate Modern Gallery and over the river is St Paul's Cathedral. I used to love walking from Westminster Bridge down river to Tower Bridge and beyond. Just so much English and British history to see along the south bank of the river Thames. This is just another of my over a thousand photos of London and I took this one with my Canon DSLR camera. Like some other of my Canon photos I have manged to lose my camera details when I downsized it from being huge!

[itsumikorokotoyomonoko]

trick or treat

you get The Thames

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[gwydionmisha]

Did the Coroner Make this Disaster Worse?

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Why is there a bale of hay hanging in Tower Bridge?

It illustrates a little-known London law around bridge maintenance on The Thames, which states that if there is a reduced height due to works, a bale of straw must be hung underneath to signal to passing river traffic.

[stardustpinkart]

This, is ten year old Kitty. Shes a character I plan to put into "Legends Of Ocelot", when they get to England.

She is a orphan, another waif wandering around londons streets. Although she knows little about her past, the backstory I have for her is her mother was a slave brought over from Africa. Her "father", was a nasty wokrman who assaulted her mother and Kitty was the end result.

She lives under a boardwalk at a dock, with her dog "Churchill". She works as a "ratter", Churchill catching them and her selling them to a Fagin like man called "Wormwood". She also works parttime for a odd inventor Gulliver Swift. Usually getting information for him, passing messages, etc.

Kitty was a common nickname for Katherine in old timey england.

[womblegrinch]

Edward Seago (1910-1974) - The Thames at Westminster

Oil on board. 13.75 x 20 inches, 35 x 50.8 cm.

Estimate: £20,000-30,000.

Sold Dreweatts, Newbury, Berks, 12 March 2025 for £40,000 + B.P.

The angle and elevation of the work would suggest that Seago painted this from the Institution of Engineering and Technology on Savoy Place (yep, I lined it up) just by Waterloo Bridge. In the foreground is Cleopatra's Needle, behind which is Charing Cross Rail Bridge, then Westminster Bridge leading to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, beyond is Lambeth Bridge and Millbank Tower a little further upstream.

The next building along Savoy Place is the back of the Savoy Hotel from which Claude Monet painted his iconic views of Waterloo Bridge and the Houses of Parliament (roughly level with the Routemaster bus on Victoria Embankment). I've posted some previously.

As an aside, if you are ever on Waterloo Bridge there are a set of steps on the north side at the end of the railings that lead up to a raised terrace and the entrance to 1 Lancaster Place. It gives you a 180-degree view from the Houses of Parliament panning around to the Pleistocene south of the river before coming back to Civilisation with the City of London and Docklands north of the Thames. No one goes up there so you can make a quick video, but don't linger as technically it private property. OOPS! Well, you can forget about all of this paragraph until the end of 2026. 1 Lancaster Place and Brettenham House next door are undergoing a major refurbishment and the place is a building site. I guess I'm usually concentrating on the road as I ride past! Make your video from the bridge instead.

[haxanbroker]

Blackfriars Bridge, London, June 2024.

[mapsoffun]

We walked to the Tate Modern, which was neat but we weren’t in the mood to explore further, and we went past the reconstructed Globe Theater, and on our way back into the City we went through the closed Borough Market (it was a Sunday, after all) and then saw the famed Tower Bridge.

[lud-and-sons]