After years of ever more shocking reports and disgusting images of sewage spills fouling our beaches and rivers, environmental groups and individuals gathered by the River Thames in Central London to demand action from the Government. Roughly 15,000 demonstrators marched from the Albert Embankment, across Westminster Bridge, and down Whitehall to a rally and speeches …
Author archives: Patricia Stoughton
Riverside trees along the central London Thames
From Vauxhall Bridge to Tower Bridge, the trees lining both banks of the River Thames are almost all London planes. Softening the riverside with their colour and form through the seasons, they breathe calm and quietude into the cityscape. AUTUMN We have the Victorians to thank for the majority of the central London riverside trees. …
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