How To Use Thames In A Sentence
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The whale calf is thought to have become separated from its mother in the lower Thames, where the sighting of another, larger bottlenose whale was reported.
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness begins and concludes on the Thames, that ‘tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth’.
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Eels have been on the feed in the Lower Thames.
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As we sit looking across the Thames, he pauses to catch his breath.
Times, Sunday Times
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The work is being carried out by Thames Water and the electricity installations by EDF Energy.
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With that, she took the plunge into the Thames and was soon among her fellow athletes, bobbing along like beads cast into the water.
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An exceptionally creepy two-parter begins tonight with various crudely dismembered body parts of young women getting washed up in the Thames or chewed by urban foxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were walking along the Thames Path, on the other side of the river.
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Was recently awarded ￡30,000 damages against Thames Valley Police for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.
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More than 10,000 Ellen fans recently turned out to cheer on their hero as she sailed her trimaran from Greenwich to Tower Bridge along the River Thames.
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This, apparently, was the very room from which Monet painted his celebrated views of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament, hung in (acceptable) reproduction around the walls of the pretty, panelled sitting room.
The Smartest Hotel in the World
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Although extensive (and presumably fantastically expensive), the excavations revealed a story of only local interest, with Medieval and later expansion by Kingston upon Thames via a series of revetments into the river.
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With some notable exceptions, modem developments along the Thames have failed to respond to the scale of the river and wide flat sweep of the estuary landscape.
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A call for collaboration between the four Thames regions and higher education institutions is made.
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We think it is a realistic proposition to bring a crossing between Kent and Southend, and eventually up the Thames to London.
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It took on board a cargo of barilla at Aguilas and Almeria, and returned to England, reaching the Thames in May.
James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters
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Natural benches made from salvaged timber piling from jetties on the Thames are to be placed along the route.
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The British were engaged, and routed, and then defeated en masse at an unnamed river normally identified as the Thames.
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The man behind the anniversary jump is veteran parachutist Geoffrey Holmes from Henley-on-Thames.
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Moreover, if the staffage reminds us of the kinds of figures found in his earlier work, they do also represent the people who worked on the Thames barges.
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A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt.
Vanity Fair
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When the Thames was an arterial highway, no one wanted to live on its edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Citizens who grew up East of the Tower of London may only *may* - not necessarily have an East End accent, regardless of whether they live north or south of the River Thames.
Languagehat.com: BBC VOICES.
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On 27th June 1665 he left London to escape the Great Plague and settled at Hersham, having been appointed churchwarden at the parish church of Walton-upon-Thames.
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Those lamps look like throwbacks to some older, lost city, the London of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, peasouper fogs and tugs on the Thames.
MAN AND WIFE
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Albion Quayside, London, is 5.5 hectares of flood-resilient quayside, park, marina and 850 houses in the Thames Gateway – the U.K.'s biggest regeneration area stretching 40 miles downstream from London along the Thames Estuary.
Fighting Back the Waves
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With Thames privatised, it is a private sector project with appropriate incentives paid to workers who achieve their targets.
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The story of the Thames is a very rich one and the watermen and lightermen have played a large part in it.
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In London and the Thames Valley, the Thames Barrier was set to be closed to reduce the impact of the incoming tide on high river levels.
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However it appears to the Environment Agency that the ancient navigable status of the Thames at Hedsor has never been extinguished by statute or by any other competent authority.
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He was just helicoptered across London to the south bank of the Thames.
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London was a port and a sequence of waterfronts, quays, and warehouses developed along the north bank of the Thames.
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The fatberg was found in a Kingston sewer, by Thames Water, after residents complained that they couldn't flush their toilets.
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Europe continued to get colder; at the low point, in the 17th century, the Thames often froze so hard in winter that fairs were held on the ice.
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The tour will start on the Victoria Embankment of the Thames, near Blackfriars Station, and pass the Houses of Parliament.
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The company traces its origins to a transport business formed in 1884 that moved goods by barge along the Thames.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let us keep our fingers crossed and hope that the tide that is swirling about the buckled patent leather pumps of Mr. Speaker sweeps him and her away down the Thames like so much noxious mephitic effluent.
They Cannot Send All Of Us To The Gulag
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I am nobody, says Ulrika Jonsson from behind Miu Miu shades as we sit in the sunny, if poncy, courtyard of the Hotel du Vin in Henley on Thames.
The Saturday interview: Ulrika Jonsson
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The company is also part of a joint venture building a fuel import terminal in the Thames estuary.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were found on what was once the Thames foreshore, and would have been stored underwater in a wattle enclosure to stop the wood drying out and splitting.
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I question whether all the officers of the royal navy can bring together, from all their journals, a collection of so many wonderful escapes as this man has known upon the Thames, on which he has been a thousand and a thousand times on the point of perishing, sometimes by the terrours of foolish women in the same boat, sometimes by his own acknowledged imprudence in passing the river in the dark, and sometimes by shooting the bridge under which he has rencountered mountainous waves, and dreadful cataracts.
The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
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This book follows the conventional Thames & Hudson formula of introductory text plus detailed case studies.
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He said that officers forced demonstrators into such a tight "kettle" on Westminster Bridge that they were in danger of being seriously crushed or pushed into the freezing River Thames.
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One firm sent its lighters, the London County Council dispatched its hopper barges, and the Port of London nine of its tugs which towed Thames sailing barges behind them.
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The Thames was swollen after a sudden thaw of heavy snow and torrential rains.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, he neglects to mention that at 316 Thames Valley and Essex sites, which represented more than half of the trial, the number of injury accidents actually increased!
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Coming slowly on through the forests of masts was a great steamship, beating the water in short impatient strokes with her heavy paddles as though she wanted room to breathe, and advancing in her huge bulk like a sea monster among the minnows of the Thames.
The Old Curiosity Shop
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The richest source of all for prehistoric artefacts has been the Thames.
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The public will even be able to enjoy the fantastic views across the Thames from the tower itself.
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And yet he was warned by manie strange woonders (as the common people did discant) to refraine from these euill doings: for the Thames did rise with such high springs and tides, that manie townes were drowned, and much hurt doone in places about London, and elsewhere.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus
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Jorgenson's downfall led to his return to England as a prisoner, and his committal to a Thames River prison hulk, Bahama, among fellow Danish officers.
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At one point 16,000 dockers organised mobile pickets and closed the docks along the Thames.
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It is documented that fly fishing for pike was popular in the early 1700's in this country, as was dapping for Dace on the Thames in the 1800's.
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From Kent to the Thames, Oliver follows the trail of what might be thought of as the first battle of Britain, as Caesar's legions overcame the resistance posed by the rebellions of Queen Boudicca.
Tonight's TV highlights: Secrets Of The Arabian Nights | House | Wishful Drinking | The Animal's Guide To Britain | A History Of Celtic Britain | Long Lost Family
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Thames -- old Religious Houses for the most part, now disguised and pulled about beyond recognition, ranging right and left from the Ludgate itself: behind these rose again towers and roofs, and high above all the tall spire of the Cathedral, as if to gather all into one, culminant aspiration ....
Come Rack! Come Rope!
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Probably completed during the 1850s, the painting depicts an attempt by Navy recruiters to entice a Thames waterman into the service.
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• A 1593 Petition from the union of Thames 'watermen' bewailing the loss of business when playhouses on the Southbank were closed due to plague
Media Newswire
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The Thames estuary airport is just such an idea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yesterday crowds lined the Thames to see the boats make a voyage to Westminster.
The Sun
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From the battlements, she can look over a bend in the River Thames, across the treetops to Eton College and out over farms, villages and shires of Berks and Bucks.
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It was a curiosity of history that no Arab dhow, no Chinese junk, no daharbiya, had ever sailed up Thames or Tagus.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The ship is now permanently moored on the Thames in London.
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At least three cruise liners with hotel rooms will be anchored in disused docks on the Thames, alongside many smaller boats and barges offering accommodation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stamp's father was a stoker on the Thames boats and the family lived in the East End in near penury.
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The upper reaches of the Thames froze and easterly winds brought blizzards and snow drifts 20ft deep.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's true the Thames froze, it's true it changed over the past two centuries and doesn't freeze now, but no, frog flatulence is not the reason why.
Real Caricature, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Cross Rail, Thames Water, the Olympic site, the new Thames Barrier and the like, and using this to re-evaluate the geological development of the Basin from the Mesozoic to the Present, so setting the geotechnics of the Basin into its geological context.
Edie.net - Latest News
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Please enclose your remittance, making cheques payable to Thames Valley Technology.
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The company traces its origins to a transport business formed in 1884 that moved goods by barge along the Thames.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its clauses include matters of parochial concern, such as fish traps on the Thames.
Times, Sunday Times
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I found Grey's silent scrutiny unsettling, too, and tried to turn the talk to home topics, but the lads didn't care for the great crusade against smoking, or the state of the Thames, or the Jews in Parliament; 8; 'they wanted the blood of Cawnpore and the thunder of Lucknow, and it was a relief when Grey sent them packing, and suggested we take our cigars on the veranda.
THE NUMBERS
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He paused as a Thames tug gave throat with a double toot in warning to an approaching pleasure craft.
RIOT
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The Thames rose and burst through the embankment walls without warning.
Times, Sunday Times
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Phil was making a living as a writer, but he hadn't yet done anything to set the Thames on fire.
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At the same time, it is NOT to say that they are not capable of Socialism ... although the "S" word equate with Joe McCarthy reds-under-the-bed paranoia in many North American minds forgetful of the fact that their anglophonic soul mates across "The Pond" in Olde England have embraced the "S" word without throwing themselves in sheer desperation into the River Thames because of it.
Like the American Revolution, Venezuela's in the name of Liberator Simon Bolivar is NOT going to be a walk-over!
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Henry III, though undeniably pious, could also be sharp-tongued and quick-tempered - he is recorded as tearing up the clothes of one of his court jesters, and throwing another into the Thames.
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Declared biologically dead in 1957, the Thames is now awash with wildlife, ecologists say.
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With Thames privatised, it is a private sector project with appropriate incentives paid to workers who achieve their targets.
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Some plaied at the football as boldlie there, as if it had been on the drie land; divers of the Court, being then at Westminster shot dailie at prickes set upon the Thames, and tradition says, Queen Elizabeth herself walked upon the ise.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
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Rather than trying to remove the salt from seawater, the plant would use brackish waters from the Thames ebb tide.
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They have a nice little theatre, big enough for a party, with absolutely fabulous views over the Thames.
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He added Bexley could not back plans for the new Thames bridge unless Thames Road was dualled.
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A growing number of residents have been contacting the Staines Guardian to complain about the unmerciful action by youngsters, who are harming the birds residing in the River Thames.
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He's a good student, but he won't ever set the Thames on fire.
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The good news for Thames Valley cops is that the murder rate may now drop to a realistic level.
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On the Thames these days, with increased water abstraction, the river tends to go quickly from a flood to a no-flow situation.
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The building overlooks a marina that is connected to the Thames.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wherever he ventured musically-to the polar ice cape, the desert island, or along the Thames-Brown was found out by the very songs he caddishly courted.
CounterPunch
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The young woman, a child clinging to each hand, urged those in the momentous queue lining the River Thames to pay her respects to the late Queen Mother on her behalf.
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At least three cruise liners with hotel rooms will be anchored in disused docks on the Thames, alongside many smaller boats and barges offering accommodation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps one day we will sail our boats up the Thames or take our boats on trailers into the centre of London and cause havoc the way the French do.
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He paused as a Thames tug gave throat with a double toot in warning to an approaching pleasure craft.
RIOT
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Once in England, he based himself at East Molesey, then as now a sleepy little suburban backwater on the Thames, popular with rowers and weekend day-trippers because of its proximity to the palace of Hampton Court.
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He opened it up and found several different evil looking things; athames, black books, swords, potion ingredients.
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Incorrect signs and misplaced cones as part of restrictions put in place by Richmond upon Thames Council on rugby days led drivers to believe they couldn't park in Crown Road.
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The expansion of trade along the Thames, and the broadening power of the royal court led to a London property boom.
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Attlee conducts us on a latterday grand tour that takes in, among many other places, Turner's Thames, Basho's Japan, Pliny's Vesuvius and Rudolf Hess's solitary cell in Spandau prison.
Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review
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Over the last few months, the artist has produced topographical views of Richmond upon Thames.
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In addition to these I have in mind the construction of roads in the Southern and Eastern parts of the Province; from Fort Erie and Niagara Falls between the waters of the Thames River and Lake Erie, through Guelph and Palmerston, reaching to the Huron and Bruce districts, and giving to the Province a means of intercommunication which is comprehensive, and yet easy and simple.
Good Roads and the Public Welfare
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The Thames was swollen after a sudden thaw of heavy snow and torrential rains.
Times, Sunday Times
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A 24-hour inner Thames estuary airport would avoid both of these constraints.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elizas father, Jonathan Makepeace, was born in London in 1866 to a penniless Thames bargeman and his wife.
The Forgotten Garden
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Thames Valley continues to grow apace.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Home Office is evaluating its effectiveness in the Thames Valley where, out of 48 registered serious sex offenders, none reoffended in the year from April 2003.
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The Thames Basin Heaths proposed SPA, taken as a whole, supports an estimated 8%, 10% and 28% respectively of the GB breeding populations of (nightjar, woodlark and Dartford warbler).
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The only record we have of Henslowe's polar bears being put to any use is that one of them was baited with dogs while swimming in the Thames, for the amusement of the Spanish ambassador.
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A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctors door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt.
V. Dobbin of Ours
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Thus, at the mouth of the Thames, thousands of tons of sprats are caught every winter by means of the large bag net, known as the stow net.
The Art of Living in Australia
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The three-hour Thames cruise also includes a glass of bubbles and a threecourse meal.
The Sun
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What with these devil-ships a-flyin 'about the skies, and dropping thunderbolts on us from the clouds, and furreners a-comin' up the Thames as I've heard, London ain't 'ealthy enough for me, nor the missus and the kids, and thanks for your kindness, sir, we're movin' to-night, keb an 'all.
The World Peril of 1910
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These will include a river pageant of 1,000 boats sailing down the Thames.
Times, Sunday Times
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The oil, as well as other debris and rubbish, is currently contained by a bund across the river, at Church Street weir, which stops it from reaching the River Thames.
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Port of London Authority rules require that all craft must proceed at all times at a safe speed when navigating anywhere on the tidal Thames.
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Or, perhaps, the Thames Valley Police inherited the unsolved case file from the Berkshire Constabulary, when it became part of their force.
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The Thames was a polluted mess and cesspits within the city were a constant source of contamination.
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A Thames Valley Police spokesman said the girl was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after the crash.
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The building overlooks a marina that is connected to the Thames.
Times, Sunday Times
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The London Gateway, a £1. 5bn project to build a giant deep-water port and logistic park on the banks of the Thames near Thurrock, Essex, received its latest ministerial delegation last week.
How pension funds can plug the investment gap
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OF/DH Marcus Thames is the odd man out for now, so he's working some at first base this spring.
Fantasy Insider: American League projected lineups
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Firefighters, police, council workers and Thames Water joined forces to fight back the flood and limit the damage.
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The Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into liquidation last month amid allegations that it had been living beyond its means.
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In your free time, you can visit Blackwell's Bookshop, a world famous book store that made the Guinness Book of Record for having the most books in one room, the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology or take a punting excursion on the Cherwell or the River Thames, although in Oxford, they call the Thames the Isis.
Pam Grout: Studying At Oxford Is A Great Excuse To Visit Oxford
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I had fished both the tidal and non tidal Thames for pike for many years.
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He then became a Thames waterman, and increased his earnings by writing rollicking verse and prose; he obtained the patronage of Jonson and others, and diverted both court and city.
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It is believed that Thames will use this airtime to flag the new channel, and C5 if it wins.
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Worse, on a seriously winding and narrow road, like the one up the Thames coast, I am tailgated by drivers who then pass on blind corners, sounding their horns.
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Williams, a cycling fanatic and accomplished mathematician, was on secondment from GCHQ in Cheltenham to MI6 at their headquarters in Vauxhall, on the banks of the Thames.
MI6 spy Gareth Williams had no trace of drugs or poison in body
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The trains, which all carry the name Thameslink Cityflier, were expected to offer a full service by today.
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Londoners and tourists lining the banks and bridges were treated to the sight of a whale being shepherded along the Thames with an escort of two rescue boats close by either side.
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The natural projection of the land along the Thames conferred distinct advantages on West Ham as a site for the new docks.
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They're drilling a new tunnel under the Thames.
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He swore every oath imaginable at her, insolently ordering her to be off with her child, and find lodgings with the villain to whom she had prostituted herself, or else he would soon pitch her and her little bratling into the Thames.
The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney.
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She's made an official complaint - just one of a record number received by Thames Valley Police this year.
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The three-hour Thames cruise also includes a glass of bubbles and a threecourse meal.
The Sun
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We hope the Thames Barrier keeps doing its stuff -- otherwise, believe me, Kevin is suing.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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Sweeps Ditch cuts across Watersplash Lane, and eventually joins the River Thames at Maidenhead.
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But when a Thames spate shifted these supports, Brunel secretly ordered his carpenters to leave a gap between the brickwork and the replaced shuttering.
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His book The Bayeux Tapestry has just been reprinted by Thames and Hudson.
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It should go further and back a Thames estuary airport funded from overseas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The vintry, he tells us, was that part of the Thames bank where "the merchants of Bordeaux craned their wines out of lighters and other vessels, and there landed and made sale of them.
Inns and Taverns of Old London
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About a quarter of a million people line the banks of the Thames and the race is part of the social season, attended by debutantes and society figures with strict entry and dress codes for some parts of the riverbank.
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Thames watermen and Tyne keelmen in particular acquired an astounding proficiency in the choice and application of abusive epithets, but of the two the keelman carried off the palm.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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A new group called the Thames Valley Parternship wants to channel private funds into schemes designed to tackle crime at its source.
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The hatred that divides the two clubs either side of that silver slip of the Thames is almost biblical.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the most moving and unforgettable moments for all who witnessed that sad and highly emotive day of his funeral was to watch the barge carrying him down the mighty River Thames.
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Immediately over the "midship" section of the hull, and extending one hundred and fifty feet in either direction fore and aft from this point, placed upon the "back," so to speak, of the hull, was a superstructure shaped somewhat like the above-water portion of a double-ended Thames steamboat, with a deck, thirty feet in width at its broadest part, protected by an open railing in place of the usual bulwarks.
With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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One of the earliest chain suspension bridges was erected at Menai Strait by Thomas Thelford, and at the same time Brunel sunk his first shaft for the Thames tunnel.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)
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According to the Bucks Free Press, the local force, Thames Valley, has itself been relieved of a truncheon, "five blue strobe flashing lights", handcuffs valued at £32.69, and a six-foot tall cardboard officer that was stolen from High Wycombe station.
Hugh Muir's diary
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It reminded me more of Claes Oldenurg's 1967 proposal for a monumental ballcock in the Thames.
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His father served as a soldier in the wars and ‘some of my great-greats were leather tanners and lightermen on the Thames’.
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Woolwich is one of those few places along the Thames where high ground reaches through the marshes that existed before the river was embanked.
The embarrasing thing we must never mention
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We took a boat down the river Thames complete with riotous commentary from the ship's captain.
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A miscellaneous group of politicians and journalists found a haven in their mansion by the Thames.
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Eels have been on the feed in the Lower Thames.
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The natural projection of the land along the Thames conferred distinct advantages on West Ham as a site for the new docks.
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He was happiest at home, with his children, and later alone on his little old clinker-built boat, the Curlew, sailing the muddy waters of the Thames estuary.
In the Frame
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But in the split second that her head spun around to verify what Thames told her, Sam's right leg shot up in a scissors kick.
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It was rather like trotting from a punt in traditional Thames style with the boat moored across the stream.
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As we sit looking across the Thames, he pauses to catch his breath.
Times, Sunday Times
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Farrell the butterfly entrepreneur took flight in 1981 after his elder brother, a veterinary surgeon, had been called to the Duke of Northumberland's Thameside pile, Syon Park, to treat an iguana.
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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, meanwhile, says the Thames Basin is home to 264 male nightjars (about 8% of the bird's total numbers in the UK), 149 pairs of woodlark and 445 pairs of Dartford warblers.
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They are the last remnants of a once-proud fishing industry, middle-water North Sea boats that fish for cod, plaice, haddock and lemon sole in an area that stretches down from Norway to the Thames.
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Thames Water is resurfacing the road after the burst pipe buckled a 100 ft stretch of the carriageway about six inches deep.
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Southwark has long been the dark side of London, with the southern banks of the Thames home to brothels, bear-baiting and some bloke called William Shakespeare.
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The fire quickly consumed the cramped neighbourhood and then spread to highly flammable warehouses on Thames Street.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is this some kind of cack-handed attempt to stem the Lib Dem advances in Henley-on-Thames?
Bad Hair Day: Cam Hands Double Crown to Lib Dems
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The worst-case scenario for the insurers is a slow-moving front over the upper Thames that gradually moves over London.
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In a few days the vessel went down the Thames from Deptford, and Ledyard thought it the happiest moment of his life; but such is the uncertainty of human expectations, while he was indulging in day-dreams of the fame and honour which awaited him, he was once more doomed to suffer the agonies of a disappointment to his hopes, the more severe, as being so near their consummation -- the vessel was seized by a custom-house officer, brought back, and exchequered.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828
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His father owns mills in the country and a lot of the barges on the canal and the Thames.
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He paused as a Thames tug gave throat with a double toot in warning to an approaching pleasure craft.
RIOT
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An exceptionally creepy two-parter begins tonight with various crudely dismembered body parts of young women getting washed up in the Thames or chewed by urban foxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is believed that Thames will use this airtime to flag the new channel, and C5 if it wins.
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We were stationed in Henley-on-Thames, a beautiful riverside town best known for its annual Regatta and the huge brawls between toffs, tourists and anarchists on Henley Bridge which marked the start of the boat racing.
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One firm sent its lighters, the London County Council dispatched its hopper barges, and the Port of London nine of its tugs which towed Thames sailing barges behind them.
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The Thames below was milling with teams of kayakers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coming with a party of gentlemanly fellows slowly rowing up the Thames and humming some passionate recitative from an opera, he alone could recall the charmful stillness of a Scotch Sabbath, the worshiping crowds, and the evening psalm ascending from so many thousand hearthstones:
Winter Evening Tales
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The three-hour Thames cruise also includes a glass of bubbles and a threecourse meal.
The Sun
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Personally I'd like to see him go the whole hog - bind him, gag him and chuck him into the Thames wearing a pair of concrete boots.
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Our antiquary writes like one unacquainted with his subject; no man, I believe, ever talked _of charging_ a gun with a _tampion_; neither would the said _tampion_ (consisting of a piece of hard oak) have done much less mischief than a stone, if pointed from the Thames at the Queen's
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1
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He had therefore not needed the vicar's admonition to contact the Thames Valley Police HQ at Kidlington.
WIDOW'S END
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The 20-year franchise has been awarded to Govia, which operates Thames Trains and Thameslink.
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I was driven in a nice silver car with leather upholstery along the Thames, alongside the Houses of Parliament with the London Eye and Big Ben fighting for airspace.
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During the age of sail, the Thames River region was the leading shipbuilding area in Britain.
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Nor is the Thames/BBC project likely to be beset by the teething troubles which plagued the pioneer satellite broadcasters.
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Each year, hundreds of thousands of spectators line the banks of the River Thames to support the two crews.
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Most significantly, the Thames came to provide a depository for London's waste.
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The London Implementation Group has a full time press officer working alongside colleagues in the Thames regions.
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This passion had been ignited in his childhood years, whilst a student at Eton, when he regularly walked and botanised along the path by the River Thames.
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The old building, seen from the Thames on summer days, is quietly and broodingly majestic.
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This long free fishing section of the Thames has a habit of turning up more than its fair share of surprise catches including big chub and barbel.
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He correctly attributed the difference to the fact that the Lambeth company drew its water from Thames Ditton, above Teddington lock, where there was no danger from sewage in the tideway.
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Lymington sends two members to Parliament, and this and her salt trade is all I can say to her; for though she is very well situated as to the convenience of shipping I do not find they have any foreign commerce, except it be what we call smuggling and roguing; which, I may say, is the reigning commerce of all this part of the English coast, from the mouth of the Thames to the Land's End of
From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman"
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The new park will be a further draw for the dense, coagulated soup of tourists the area attracts (especially if the nearby ‘South Bank Beach’ ever emerges from the Thames and the red tape).
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On Wednesday, John's 15-year-old son Patrick was presented with a testimonial for saving a boy aged eight from the Thames near the Teddington suspension bridge.
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The three-hour Thames cruise also includes a glass of bubbles and a threecourse meal.
The Sun
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Situated alongside the River Thames, the iconic power plant has been featured in works by The Who, Pink Floyd and The Beatles, and now this cultural touchstone is being retrofitted into a self-sufficent community powered by a zero-carbon energy plant.
Mike Chino | Inhabitat
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Hampshire and Thames Valley police carried out the crackdown on main roads and motorways in the region over five days last week.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was bred from two top-notch working dogs from Thames Valley Police and is one of the youngest dogs to become licensed in the UK.
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The lightermen live on as the masters of the waste disposal vessels and dredgers you see on the Thames today.
