Photographes and stories relating to interesting weather on the Thames
LONDON’s flood protection barriers were raised on Saturday afternoon to protect the capital from a very high tide. The Environment Agency raised the Thames Barrier for the 175th time to save London in its 32 year career. The gates started to rise at 10.30 and by noon the barrier was entirely closed. It was the first time the Barrier had …
The Thames Path at Greenwich was flooded during high tide last Friday and Saturday. An especially high tide saw a flood alert issued for vulnerable riverside areas between Teddington and the Thames Barrier. At Greenwich, this saw water washing across the path outside the Old Royal Naval College creating dramatic – but not unprecedented – scenes. The Environment Agency do …
It’s only a month since I lasted posted some photos of a lovely sunset behind the Dartford Bridge but the sky was again rather magnificent last night. As with all photos on the site, any of these pictures can be ordered as a print and you can all the photos in your inbox by subscribing to the site. You can …
Photographs of a beautiful sunset behind the QE2 Bridge between Dartford and Thurrock.
HIGH water levels left the Thames path at Richmond partially flooded on Sunday afternoon. An ice cream seller was carrying cones up the grassy bank to customers at one point as his van was partially submerged in water. Drinkers at the White Cross pub were temporarily stranded – always a popular location to become stranded at a high tide – …
Some recent photos of a lovely, warm orange and red sunset on the River Thames at Woolwich. One of the Woolwich ferries, JAMES NEWMAN, makes a crossing. The current ferries have been in service for over fifty years. Thames Clippers’ STORM CLIPPER heads down river as part of its scheduled service to Woolwich.
GRAVESEND has sounded like last year’s Ships’ Opera over the past few nights, providing an audible reminder that the busy remains active even on dark, foggy nights. This morning the 300-metre-long Hamburg Sud container vessel SANTA ROSA emerged from the fog at Gravesend shortly before reaching her destination at Tilbury. Other traffic on the river included Transfennica’s PAULINE RUSS and …
THE CRUISE liner MARCO POLO returned to London Cruise Terminal at Tilbury late on Saturday night, a day after a passenger was sadly killed on board. The 22,000-tonne vessel arrived back at her home port shortly before ten o’clock on Saturday. The end of her 42-night cruise hit the headlines when a “freak wave” crashed through windows in the Walforf …
A FREAK wave has left one passenger dead and others injured on the cruise ship MARCO POLO. The vessel was on her back to her home port of Tilbury when the incident happened today in the English Channel. Reports say that the water crashed through a window, killing an 85-year-old man. Another passenger was air-lifted from the ship. Operator Cruise …
Eel Pie Island (File Photo) POLICE officers gave piggy-back rides to members of the public left stranded by flooding at Eel Pie Island on Tuesday. Twenty-five people were cut off from the road at Twickenham because the river had risen up, leaving them unable to leave the island via the footbridge. Six Special Constables from Twickenham MPS waded through the …
