… mostly taken on Thames-side walks in Victoria Tower Gardens. Cory tugs are a familiar sight along the tidal Thames. As well as performing a vital daily waste-removing service for London by barge, their tugs brighten up the river. As this one sailed upstream under Lambeth Bridge, with leap of the imagination, it could have …
Author archives: Patricia Stoughton
The Twelve Days of Christmas
…to the traditional tune of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ with a few deviations from the original rhyme and rhythm. On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me: a super yacht on the Thames, yippee! On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me: two fieryboats and a …
Walking into night…
Spring 2021 saw the second stage of Illuminated River’s marvellous public art installation: the lighting of Blackfriars, Waterloo, the Golden Jubilee footbridges, Westminster and Lambeth Bridges designed by Leo Villareal. They join London, Canon Street Railway, Southwark and Millennium Bridges, illuminated in the summer of 2019. A walk along the river Thames at nightfall is …
Views from a bridge
… in central London, has one of finest views in the city, taking in the Palace of Westminster, Lambeth Palace, St. Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster Bridge, and the London Eye but it’s also a perfect vantage point for watching all kinds of boats that operate along this stretch of the Thames. Though, despite a couple of …
Birds on the Wall
A bench in Victoria Tower Gardens by the Thames in Westminster, has been a place of refuge, a place for slowing down and pausing for reflection during the time of Covid and its lockdowns. And one of the pleasures has been the company of birds, only occasionally lured to the wall in front by the …