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Anniversaries ahoy!

It seems incredible to me but this is the 200th Riverwatch column I’ve penned since first starting it just under five years ago.

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.

Learning to swim in the River Thames

From Tumblin Bay Weir to Desborough Cut, readers relive their memories of splashing around in the river for fun or with classes of youngsters from schools in the area