The map from Surrey County Council that claims to show that a 17.5m articulated lorry could easily make the turn

There’s serious racing too

One of the most enjoyable community events on the river takes place this weekend with the running of the 132nd Sunbury Amateur Regatta.

Voted best, and worst

I recently revealed that the River Thames had won a prestigious international conservation award – the Thiess prize – as the world’s best cared-for river because of the way the quality of the water has been improved over the past fifty years or so.

Ice-breaker in wartime UK

For some time now, my good friend Peter Bailey at the Sunbury and Shepperton Local History Society has been reminding me that in the society’s Aladdin’s Cave of treasures about the history of the river and the surrounding area, they’ve had these four photos of the Thames frozen over in 1940.