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Memories unlocked
One of the joys of writing a column like Riverwatch is that I’ve met so many lovely people who have special memories of the Thames over the years.
An almost fatal lesson
You sometimes wonder what goes on in people’s heads, don’t you? You probably read in last week’s Herald and News about the youngsters whose rowing four crashed into Walton Bridge throwing its crew into the water and totally wrecking the boat.
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.


