Category archives: Ebb & Flow

Rising in the Marlborough Downs, the River Kennet, at 77 kilometres long, is the largest of the Thames tributaries and one of England’s most important chalk streams. Joined to the man-made Kennet & Avon Canal coming from Bath, Bristol and the west, at Newbury, its final course to Reading, known as the Kennet Navigation, is …

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For several years the construction of a large Holocaust Memorial in a small, central London Thames-side park has been the subject of controversy. Not least, though the architect Sir David Adjaye’s design has been greatly criticised but because there has been a lack of transparency from the outset as to why Victoria Tower Gardens was …

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