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Amandine
Lots of people have been asking about Amandine, the whopping-big commercial ship moored at Greenwich Wednesday and Thursday, including Jeremy, who took this and Rick, who says Everyone in the office...
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Folks – what do we make of this, then. For a moment I had to check the date, but given we’re way beyond April Fools’ day, I’ll take this on face value – for the moment. Here goes: Laurence says: The...
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All I Need Is a Tall Ship…
…and for it not to turn around before I get to see it. So today, I joined a whole bunch of excited people waiting for the Tall Ship Flotilla to come by. Some people had really gone for the big camera...
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The Londoner’s River
Lt. Comm. LM Bates,, Frederick Muller Ltd, 1949 A rather wonderful book I found in a secondhand bookshop in the West Country for a pound – it’s always worth repeating that some of the best London book...
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What’s in a Name?
That which we call Bugsby’s Reach By any other name would smell as slightly seaweedy when the tide goes out… …but why would we bother? What real benefit is there in changing the name, however curious,...
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Greenwich Reach in the 1960s
Following on from the discussion about re-naming reaches, another one of those lovely moments when Gerald Dodd says ‘don’t think you’ve seen these yet…’ I’m guessing he was standing on Greenwich pier...
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Maritime Greenwich
Emma asks: currently doing a design project at my university and want to know more about the maritime history of greenwich. love reading your blog posts so was wondering whether you could do an...
View ArticleBugsby’s Here to Stay
Graham has just forwarded me this news from the Port of London authority, which, if you recall, was considering changing Bugsby’s Reach to Waterman’s Reach in commemoration of the 500th Anniversary of...
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