There was also proposals for a bridge to span the Thames, for a redeveloped Riverside stand and a museum.

London also recorded one of the earlier extreme cases of water quality problems with the Great Stink on the Thames of 1858, which led to construction of the London sewerage system soon afterward.

" The Borough " to the south of Waterloo, London and Tower Bridge were also considered Cockney before redevelopment all but extinguished the local working class areas, and now Bermondsey is the only Cockney area south of the Thames, although Pearly Kings and Queens can be found as far out as Peckham and Penge.

Like his father and brother he was also crowned at Kingston upon Thames.

Conrad also gives a description of the approach to London from the Thames Estuary in his essays The Mirror of the Sea ( 1906 ).

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote for him from 1964 to 1966 when he worked for the BBC and also for a one-off show for Thames, Frankie Howerd meets the Bee Gees, shown on 20 August 1968.

The Tart With A Heart of Gold was cut from the West End production, and is also missing from the original London cast recording ( Thames THA 100 ), despite it describing the entire raison d ' être of one of the main female characters.

Fisher's head was stuck upon a pole on London Bridge but its ruddy and lifelike appearance excited so much attention that, after a fortnight, it was thrown into the Thames, its place being taken by that of Sir Thomas More, whose martyrdom, also at Tower Hill, occurred on 6 July.

Weissman also compared many of the film's sets with locations from Chaplin's real childhood such as the statue in the opening scene resembling St. Mark's Church on Kennington Park Road and Chaplin referring to the waterfront set as the Thames Embarkment.

Some of the Thames paintings also show compositional and thematic similarities with the Japanese prints of Hiroshige.

Forecast sea levels at the mouth of the Thames Estuary are generated by Met Office computers and also by models run on the Thames Barrier's own forecasting and telemetry computer systems.

As well as the Thames Barrier, the smaller gates along the Thames Tideway include Barking Barrier, King George V Lock gate, Dartford Barrier and gates at Tilbury Docks and Canvey Island must also be closed.

After periods of heavy rain west of London, floodwater can also flow down the Thames upstream from London.

Its situation overlooks the pass through the hills taken by the Pilgrims ' Way, and also, presumably, once overlooked the ancient ford across the Wey, thus giving a key point of military control of this important East-West route way across the country ; just as Windsor Castle and the Tower of London once guarded the Thames.

For Thames TV that year he also appeared in and wrote The Eric Sykes 1990 Show with Tommy Cooper and Dandy Nichols and It's Your Move, a wordless slapstick comedy depicting the travails of a couple ( Richard Briers and Sylvia Syms ) moving into a new home, who hire an accident-prone firm of house removers, headed by Sykes.

The former ITV company Thames Television also has a significant library.

Two of the four ( Richmond and Wimbledon ) western branches of the route are also the only lines across the entire network to cross the Thames by bridge and not by tunnel.

Acton will host the starting point of the 25 kilometre Thames Tideway Tunnel ( also known as the " Super Sewer ") at the Acton Storm Tanks in Canham Road.

Along the Thames, a number of large and, in their field, pre-eminent firms grew ; notably the Morgan Crucible Company, which survives to this day and is listed on the London Stock Exchange ; Price's Candles, which also made cycle lamp oil ; and Orlando Jones ' Starch Factory.

The Knights Templar also owned land here and gave their names to one of the most distinctive streets in London, Shad Thames ( a corruption of " St John at Thames ").

It is also thought that similarly to how Kingston upon Thames appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Chingestone and Chingetun ( e ), with ching being old English for king, that Chingford could relate to the King's river, and Kings Ford.

The landscape and features of the Thames as described by Jerome are virtually unchanged, and the book's enduring popularity has meant that it has never been out of print since it was first published.

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* Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair features a puppet show of Hero and Leander in Act V, translated to London, with the Thames serving as the Hellespont between the lovers.

The museum, designed by the architect David Chipperfield, features information on the River Thames, the sport of rowing, and the town of Henley itself.

Battersea features in the books of Michael de Larrabeiti, who was brought up in the area: A Rose Beyond the Thames recounts the working-class Battersea of the 1940s and 1950s ; The Borrible Trilogy presents a fictional Battersea, home to the Borribles.

The popular Thames Television series Minder also features black and white photographs of Hammersmith Bridge and the Blue Anchor pub in the closing credits.

The most notable of these usurpations are the mummy bands and the canopic coffins .< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > The Valley of the Kings </ cite > ( Kegan Paul, 1990 ) p. 60 </ ref > It has also been noted that the features of the canopic stoppers and the second coffin do not resemble those of Tutankhamen and it has been suggested that these too had originally been intended for Akhenaten's co-regent .< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > Akhenaten, Egypt's False Prophet </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 2001 ) p. 179 </ ref >

The whole forms an impressive architectural ensemble that stretches from the Thames to Greenwich Park and is one of the principal features that in 1997 led UNESCO to inscribe ' Maritime Greenwich ' as a World Heritage Site.

The Thames Valley Police shield is made up of features from the shields of its five founding constabularies including a blue river depicting the Thames river and five crowns palisado depicting the five founding forces.

The vernacular buildings of the town have features of both the Cotswold dip slope to the northwest and the Thames Valley to the southeast.

The new design features a Thames Foyer with a winter garden gazebo under a stained-glass cupola with natural light, which is the venue for late-night dining and the hotel's famous afternoon tea.

Eltham is devoid of any major water features, although the River Thames is approximately away from Eltham's northern limits.

It features a striking view north towards the Isle of Sheppey, the Swale and the Thames estuary.

Perhaps one of the most striking features of Shad Thames are the walkways which criss-cross the street high overhead.

Rowing skiffs became very popular in Victorian Britain and a skiff journey up the River Thames features in Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, These skiffs could carry a sail and could be used for camping.

The television library features programming by most of the major ITV companies ( except Thames Television, which belongs to RTL Group ) including titles such as Prime Suspect, Doctor Zhivago ( 2002 miniseries ), The Forsyte Saga ( 2002 ), Inspector Morse and Agatha Christie's Poirot, plus children ’ s shows, TV movies, wildlife documentaries and other factual programming.

Two songs by The Kinks prominently feature the Thames, not by name, but by implication.

In 1984, Butler's Wharf and the portion of Shad Thames running behind it featured prominently in the Doctor Who serial, Resurrection of the Daleks.

* Kenneth Frampton, Philip Drew: Harry Seidler: Four Decades of Architecture, Thames & H. 1992, ISBN 0-500-97838-7

The Smith brothers, Tagg and Pugh played their first live concert in 1978 at The Kaleidoscope in Kingston upon Thames, under the name of The Filth ( sometimes incorrectly remembered as Philip Pilf & The Filth ).

* Philip Elsmore, Thames Television continuity announcer, was born in Stourport.

Other series he wrote episodes for included Return of the Saint ( 1978 ), the pilot ( Storyboard: The Traitor ) and two further episodes of Mr. Palfrey of Westminster ( Thames, 1983, 1984, 1985 ), and one episode of Philip Marlowe, Private Eye ( Thames, 1986 ).

* Philip Jones OBE, TV Producer, and Head of Light Entertainment at Thames Television ( his father was a language teacher at the school )

The young explorer was mourned widely, and £ 2, 000 was raised after his death of which £ 500 went towards a granite memorial obelisk ( designed by Philip Hardwick and unveiled in 1855 ) in his memory on the Thames riverside in front of Greenwich Hospital ; a nearby Greenwich street, Bellot Street SE10, also carries his name.

Philip Elsmore ( born 16 November 1937 in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire ) is a British actor & director and former broadcaster, best known for his role as senior continuity announcer for Thames Television between its inception in 1968 and the station's demise in 1992, having made both the first and last announcements for the station.