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The Thames

January 2024

  • A composite image showing the carved bone rosary bead featuring a face on one (left) side and a skull on the other (right)

    British Museum reveals bumper haul of treasures found by the public

    Finds reported to England’s Portable Antiquities Scheme include medieval bone rosary bead and 3,000-year-old gold dress fastener

November 2023

  • A marsh meadow in Cookham. A very beautiful stretch of the river Thames

    The Guardian picture essay
    A year on the River Thames, part four – in pictures

    The fourth instalment in a series of photo essays looking at the life on the Thames. From dawn sculls to a duck derby and container barges, Jill Mead, a longtime London resident and urban photographer, shares the stories of the many characters working on and enjoying the river

March 2023

  • George Monbiot

    Never mind the H20: this scheme to move water from Severn to Thames could be the new HS2

    George Monbiot
    England’s water woes have a solution. But trying to move vast volumes of water from west to east is not it

February 2023

  • Aerial high angle view showing Mogden sewage treatment works in west London.

    Nearly 10,000 oppose plan to pump treated sewage into Thames

    Thames Water proposal to deal with droughts in capital draws ire of river users and environmentalists

December 2022

  • Illustration by Observer Design.

    72 Upper Ground: the latest development selling the Thames down the river

    The riverside was once lauded as ‘London’s greatest opportunity’. But a lack of strategy has left it crowded with unsightly towers that put developers before communities

September 2021

  • Mudlarking in London<br>epa08583227 A mudlark looks for items of historic interest on the foreshore of the River Thames near St Paul's Cathedral in London, Britain, 04 August 2020. Mudlarking is believed to trace its origins to the 18th and 19th century, when scavengers searched the Thames' shores for items to sell. These days, history and archaeology fans hope to find old relics such as coins, ceramics, artefacts or everyday items from across centuries. They wait for the low tide and then scour specific areas of exposed shores. Collaborating with the Museum of London, the mudlarks record their finds with the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Any item over 300 years old must be recorded. EPA/NEIL HALL

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Thames by John Challis

  • Seals on sandbanks

    The age of extinction
    River of life: zoo’s yearly count finds seals thriving on Thames

April 2021

  • London Bridge at night

    Man dies trying to save woman who fell from London Bridge

    Two men jumped into River Thames in midnight rescue effort, but one was later found dead by police

December 2020

  • Sir Norman Foster in 1996.

    From the Guardian archive
    Sir Norman Foster, the architect’s architect – archive, 1996

    11 December 1996: Sir Norman, despite Lord Rogers’s wheel and dome, is the man bent on designing the next millennium for Britain

November 2020

  • Toby Green and George Pearse in front of Tower Bridge

    Thames safety warning after film-maker has to be rescued from river

    RNLI highlights dangers of jumping into river after apparent online video stunt

September 2020

  • The circular pool below the weir at Buscot Lock with its surrounding willows.

    Country diary
    Country diary: you might not want these willow boughs on your wall

    Buscot, Oxfordshire: There’s nothing twee about these trees, though they inspired a William Morris wallpaper design

August 2019

  • The Thames Barrier with Canary Wharf in the background

    Thames Barrier staff to escalate Environment Agency pay dispute

    Unison to ask workers to withdraw from incident response cover over 1.3% offer

July 2019

  • A police cordon at Shadwell Basin in east London, where a man’s body was recovered from the water.

    Bodies recovered from Thames in search for missing swimmers

    One male body fetched out of Shadwell Basin while another is pulled from the river in Kingston

June 2019

  • Caroline Crampton, author of The Way to the Sea: Forgotten Histories of the Thames Estuary

    From Vikings to Windrush: a journey down the Thames estuary

    The river between London and the sea is rich in atmosphere and history. Can a new book shed light on Conrad’s ‘mysterious vastness’?

May 2019

  • Marchioness disaster 25th anniversary<br>File photo dated 21/08/1989 of the wrecked hull of the Marchioness lying partially submerged in shallow water on the north band of the river Thames, as the 51 young people who lost their lives in the pleasure boat tragedy will be remembered today at a cathedral service on the 25th anniversary of the disaster. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday August 20, 2014. It was on August 20, 1989, that the riverboat Marchioness, packed with partygoers, collided with the dredger Bowbelle and sank in the Thames in central London. At the lunchtime Eucharist at Southwark Cathedral, close to the accident site, Linda Hunt, who lost her daughter Julie, 26, in the tragedy, will read out the names of the dead. See PA story MEMORIAL Marchioness. Photo credit should read: Tony Harris/PA Wire

    The Audio Long Read
    How to identify a body: the Marchioness disaster and my life in forensic pathology – podcast

    In my career, I have investigated many of the UK’s worst disasters. Few cases were as harrowing as the sinking of the Marchioness in 1989, which left scores dead and almost impossible to identify

April 2019

  • Marchioness richard shepherd

    The long read
    How to identify a body: the Marchioness disaster and my life in forensic pathology

    The long read: In my career, I have investigated many of the UK’s worst disasters. Few cases were as harrowing as the sinking of the Marchioness in 1989, which left scores dead and almost impossible to identify

March 2019

  • A bridge lift in action.

    Inside the bascule chamber: secrets of Tower Bridge – in pictures

    Harry Cory Wright’s photographs of Tower Bridge, one of the most famous bridges in the world and a defining symbol of London, provide insight into the workings of the largest and most advanced bascule bridge of its time

December 2018

  • A computer-generated image of the garden bridge, a now-abandoned vision for a walkway with green spaces across the Thames in London

    'I feel conned': garden bridge donors plan to sue over failed scheme

  • The remains of the medieval leather boots

    Tough as old boots: a Thames skeleton's durable footwear

July 2018

  • Elle Hunt

    Jurassic Jeff should have stayed on the internet – where he belongs

    Elle Hunt
    The installation of a huge statue of Jeff Goldblum by the Thames has turned a funny meme into a crass publicity stunt, says commissioning and communities editor Elle Hunt
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