All seemed quiet on the river after a couple of sight-seeing boats passed beneath Lambeth Bridge on their way upstream. Then a flash of gold and a scene reminiscent of Canaletto’s eighteenth century ‘The Thames on Lord Mayor’s Day’ slowly materialised as a flotilla of canopied cutters under oar made their way downstream from Vauxhall …
Author archives: Patricia Stoughton
Four days in June 2022
So many memorable official images appeared over the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebration weekend that it seems superfluous to add to them with mine but here are a few that won’t have made it to the front pages – some from central London but most from around the Thames.