Robin Stevens: Photos: Thames Path:

Greenwich to Woolwich, 25 May 2019


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Cutty Sark
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Figurehead
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Carousel adjacent to Cutty Sark
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Greenwich foot tunnel, southern entrance, built 1902
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Northern entrance, Isle of Dogs
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Gates on College Way
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Statue of Sir Walter Raleigh
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Admiral Benbow
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Old Royal Naval College
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Memorial to Joseph-René Bellot
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"To the intrepid young Bellot of the French navy who in the endeavour to rescue Franklin shared the fate and the glory of that illustrious navigator. From his British admirers, 1853."
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On this site stood the Tudor Palace of Greenwich, built by King Henry VII. Birthplace of King Henry VIII in 1491 and his daughters Queen Mary I in 1516 and Queen Elizabeth in 1533.
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Routemaster bus
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Queen's House and Royal Observatory
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Royal Observatory
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Canary Wharf skyliner
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Apartment buildings on the Greenwich Peninsula
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Trafalgar Tavern
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Nelson statue
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Isle of Dogs
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Cutty Sark, Ballast Quay
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Former Harbour Master's Office, 17 Ballast Quay
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Apparently the Thames Path here goes in three directions
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The O2 and Morden Wharf, Greenwich Peninsula
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Canary Wharf
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River Gardens Walk
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Greenwich Power Station
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Old Royal Naval College and Cutty Sark
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Morden Wharf
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Here the surrounds become more industrial
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Glimpse of the Blackwall Tunnel
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Peninsula Golf Range
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Emirates Airbus A380 A6-EUW
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Biman Bangladesh Boeing 777-300 S2-AFP
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Isle of Dogs shoreline
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Amended road markings
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Canary Wharf
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Intercontinental London The O2
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Distance marker
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A Slice of Reality, Richard Wilson, 2000, made from part of sand dredger Arco Trent
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The O2
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Radio instructions for shipping
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Trinity Buoy Wharf, Poplar, with Bow Creek Lighthouse
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Emirates Air Line
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Quantum Cloud, Antony Gormley, 1999
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Emirates Greenwich Peninsula, southern end of the Emirates Air Line
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Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine from an Airbus A380
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The Waterman and The Lighterman
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The Thames Barrier comes into view
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Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park
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Rennie St
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Polar sundial. Works better with sunshine.
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CEMEX Angerstein Aggregates Wharf
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Hopper dredger Sand Fulmar
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Anchor & Hope, Riverside
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Across the street there's a winkle stall
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Thames Barrier
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Colour photo, monochrome swan
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Barrier Point Road, Royal Docks
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Tarmac Charlton Asphalt Plant
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Thames Barrier and Control Building
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Looking back across the Greenwich Peninsula to the Isle of Dogs
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A Profile of the River Thames from Thames Head to Sea Reach
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Thames Head, Kemble, 105m above sea level
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Oxford!
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London
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Downstream river level with barrier closed: 1988 and 1993 floods
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Tanker Distributor
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Since we're downstream of the barrier, there's a levee to protect the communities behind
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Looking downstream
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Tate & Lyle Sugars, Royal Docks
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Former Mersey ferry MV Royal Iris, launched 1950, moored here since 2002, partially submerged since 2010
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Mizzen Mast House and Jigger Mast House, Woolwich
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Woolwich Foot Tunnel south entrance
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Woolwich Free Ferry piers
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Dame Vera Lynn
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Ben Woollacott, named for a deckhand drowned in an accident in 2011
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Carefully choreographed movements of the two ferries
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Looking west
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Guardroom, built 1814-15, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
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Assembly, Peter Burke, 2001
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Royal Arsenal
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Royal Brass Foundry
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Royal Arsenal Gatehouse
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I'm guessing these people on the Tube went to MCM London Comic Con
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