Category: River Thames

Tower Bridge, SE1

Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge, built between 1886 and 1894.

Astoria houseboat

Astoria is a houseboat built in 1911 for impresario Fred Karno, becoming a recording studio in the 1980s for its new owner, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.

Thames Barrier

The Thames Barrier is the world’s second-largest movable flood barrier (after the Oosterscheldekering in the Netherlands).