As many of you will know, even if you weren’t around at the time, the 50th anniversary of the 1976 prolonged heatwave and drought has been much talked about in the news lately. In London, we have just had the third heatwave of 2026 so here are a few of my photographs of our recent …
Author archives: Patricia Stoughton
By the Riverside…
Boats, birds, and buildings that caught my eye on a Saturday morning walk along Lambeth Reach in June. Boats Gabriel Franks was the first British police officer to die on duty when he was hit by a bullet during the Wapping Coal Riot in October 1798. His name lives on in GABRIEL FRANKS III. She …