Sunbury Lock

Remember landing?

It always worries me that, bit-by-bit, our public rights can be eroded away simply because we don’t know when – or how – to protect them.

MTB production lines

It’s only when you start digging into the history of our little bit of the River Thames that you get some idea of just how much has gone on here over the years.

History of island with a ‘window on the Thames’

Reader Joan Tait of Chertsey Lane, Egham Hythe wrote to me recently asking about the history of Truss’s Island on the Surrey bank of the Thames just above Penton Hook Lock.