River Thames Dockland Heritage London Bridge To Greenwich

Author : Malcolm Batten
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398108774
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River Thames Dockland Heritage: London Bridge to Greenwich written by Malcolm Batten and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated celebration of the dockland heritage of the Thames from London Bridge to Greenwich.

Author : Malcolm Batten
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398108855
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River Thames Dockland Heritage: Greenwich to Tilbury and Gravesend written by Malcolm Batten and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated celebration of the dockland heritage of the Thames from Greenwich to Tilbury and Gravesend.

Author : Gavin Weightman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466862181
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London's Thames written by Gavin Weightman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without the Thames, there would be no London or England. From earliest times, the city's needs--whether for stone, gold, or coal, for hay to feed livestock or food, wine and spices for human beings--were supplied from the river, as the fierce tides brought ships upstream or carried them down again. Only with the age of trunk road and rail did London's global importance as a port diminish. Even after that the tides continued to drive the great power stations. Gavin Weightman's fascinating book London's Thames, a compendium of often surprising information, is the best possible introduction to the water and its ways, the buildings that line the banks, and the people who lived by the river, their customs and ancient knowledge. Everything is to be found here: trade and tide, lightermen, watermen and dockers, bridges, funnels and ferries, frost fairs and regattas, clear water, fish and wildlife, pollution and waste, fortification and defense. Above all, one feels the presence of the great waterway itself, a force of nature in our urban midst.

Author : Phoebe Clapham
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781318190
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thames Path in London written by Phoebe Clapham and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely new Trail Guide dedicated to the London section of the Thames Path from Hampton Court to the Thames Barrier. Until now, Aurum’s popular one-volume Thames Path guide has had all too little room to cover the endlessly rich array of sights and history along its London section – something to look at literally every yard of the way. Now, Aurum publishes a completely new walker’s guide just to the London Thames, laid out to its new full-colour Trail Guide design, and including the extension to Crayford . Here is all the history along the river from the Mesolithic Period timber piles near Vauxhall Bridge to the new Shard skyscraper shooting skywards at London Bridge. It covers all the folklore from the famous frost fairs to the much-lamented beach near Tower Bridge, not forgetting the poignant recent visit of a large whale to the centre of London. The Thames winds all the way through London’s history and culture, from Henry VIII’s Hampton Court to the chequered fate of the Dome/O2: the London resident as much as the visiting tourist will find in this guide something new every step of the way.

Author : Michael Leapman
Publisher : Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London's River written by Michael Leapman and published by Pavilion Books, Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Welch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Tower Bridge and of Other Bridges Over the Thames Built by the Corporation of London written by Charles Welch and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Cookson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780578393
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing the River written by Brian Cookson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most beautiful views of London are those from the many bridges which span the River Thames. Millions of people cross over the Thames every day but most are too concerned with reaching their destination to notice the structures they use, let alone consider their history or the risks taken in building them. Triumphs of architecture and engineering, London's bridges have inspired artists as diverse as Dickens and Monet. From the elegant Richmond Bridge to the Gothic, quintessentially British Tower Bridge, they have formed the backdrop to battles, rebellions, pageantry and mysteries for two millennia. Crossing the River tells these stories, including the assassination of a dissident with a poisoned umbrella on Waterloo Bridge; the apparent suicide of 'God's banker', an Italian financier with links to the Vatican, the Masons and the Mafia; and the Marchioness tragedy and its controversial aftermath. Featuring illustrations and photographs old and new, this book will undoubtedly increase the reader's knowledge and appreciation of the bridges and the people who built them, and thereby enhance the pleasure of seeing them, whether at leisure or stuck in a traffic jam.

Author : Mick Sinclair
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1908493194
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thames written by Mick Sinclair and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may not be the longest, deepest or widest river in the world but few bodies of water reveal as much about a nation's past and present, or as suggestive of its future, as England's River Thames. Tales of legendary lock-keepers and long-vanished weirs evoke the distant past of a river which evolved into a prime commercial artery linking the heart of England with the ports of Europe. In Victorian times, the Thames hosted regattas galore, its new bridges and tunnels were celebrated as marvels of their time, and London’s river was transformed from sewer to centrepiece of the British Empire. Talk of the Thames Gateway and the effectiveness of the Thames Barrier keeps the river in the news today, while the lengthening Thames Path makes the waterway more accessible than ever before. Through quiet meadows, rolling hills, leafy suburbia, industrial sites and a changing London riverside, Mick Sinclair tracks the Thames from source to sea, documenting internationally-known landmarks such as Tower Bridge and Windsor Castle and revealing lesser known features such as Godstow Abbey, Canvey Island, the Sandford Lasher, and George Orwell’s tranquil grave.

Author : Malcolm Batten
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445690721
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River Thames Shipping Since 2000: Passenger Ships, Ferries, Heritage Shipping and More written by Malcolm Batten and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unpublished photos showing the variety of shipping seen along the River Thames since the turn of the century.

Author : Chris Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross River Traffic written by Chris Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty and informative look at the history of London's bridges