Category archives: Ebb & Flow

Spend a little time on, or around Tower Bridge, and you’ll see a lot of activity, not as in the past when this part of the Port of London was a teeming mass of cargo ships and barges but there’s certainly more movement than a few years ago. Not only has an effort been put […]

Imogen Forster …its brown expansefilmy, torpid, featureless.The sandy edge gives wayunder my foot; a man is fishingfrom the log-jammed bank.This is not as I imagined it. Harassed by winter gulls, the archaic bird secures its knotted prey, swallows, and extinguishes the glinting silver string. The self-entangling fish and the glossy cormorant, head raised to the […]

The distinctive livery of passing Bennett’s Barges and their tugs is sure to catch your eye as you look out over the river.  Part of the Livett’s Group, their tugs and barges are working on the western section of the super sewer for London.      Bennett’s Barges was founded in 1983 and was involved with […]

As you walk along the banks of the central London Thames, you can see there’s no doubt about the sense of purpose of waste-towing Cory tugs passing on the river. Their names are a strong indication of their resolve. As Reclaim; Recovery; Redoubt; Regain; and Resource tow their barges up and downstream, you can watch […]

GPS Marine brightly coloured tugs are among many tugs working for different companies along the river. Operating for over fifty years in harbours all over Europe, their tugs are a familiar sight on the waters of the Medway and the Thames. And from the banks of the Thames in central London you are bound to […]