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Sentence Examples Naturally like Kings Lawn, this small section holds typical Thames weir stream species such as chub, barbel and dace. The boyfriend and I had a day off yesterday and went on a jolly round the Thames like tourists. He was the son of a London boatbuilder and waterman who used to ferry J. M. W. Turner across the Thames. On an indictment for manslaughter it appeared that the prisoner was a pilot, and was on board a Portuguese barque sailing down the Thames. This book includes Tideway, a set of poems arising during a period spent with Thames watermen. The discovery came about during rescue excavations on Thames Water's sludge works. Probably completed during the 1850s, the painting depicts an attempt by Navy recruiters to entice a Thames waterman into the service. Here, the eye still meets unbroken views of lush woodlands sweeping down to the river Thames, surrounded by open riverside meadows. So poor was the harvest of recruits that an appeal was issued to the watermen on the Thames to join up. Each year, hundreds of thousands of spectators line the banks of the River Thames to support the two crews. The lightermen live on as the masters of the waste disposal vessels and dredgers you see on the Thames today. The flotilla must have been an impressive sight as it sailed up the Thames to the watergate at Westminster palace. Britain's newest sports car took a test drive Wednesday, zooming back and forth across the waters of the Thames River. Thames Water says there might be a hosepipe ban on account of there not being enough rain over the winter. Ten minutes ago two attack helicopters peeled off overhead, circling London in tight formation and I could see police launches on the Thames. The need for the Thames Estuary sea forts arose in the last war on account of the mining of our waters with magnetic mines. Rather than trying to remove the salt from seawater, the plant would use brackish waters from the Thames ebb tide. London was a port and a sequence of waterfronts, quays, and warehouses developed along the north bank of the Thames. The chosen route linked central London to Docklands by heading south of the Thames into areas previously poorly served by underground services. They were joined by high-speed launches from the Thames police marine support unit. Show More Sentences On the Thames these days, with increased water abstraction, the river tends to go quickly from a flood to a no-flow situation. They have a nice little theatre, big enough for a party, with absolutely fabulous views over the Thames. His father owns mills in the country and a lot of the barges on the canal and the Thames. It reminded me more of Claes Oldenurg's 1967 proposal for a monumental ballcock in the Thames. In England the most engaging lithographer was Whistler, who used delicate lines and tints in his Nocturnes of the Thames. She was last seen walking along the Thames without her top, in a white lacy bra and pink floral mini skirt. The story of the Thames is a very rich one and the watermen and lightermen have played a large part in it. Over the last few months, the artist has produced topographical views of Richmond upon Thames. He added Bexley could not back plans for the new Thames bridge unless Thames Road was dualled. An Oxford medical student has described his desperate efforts to rescue a drowning man from the River Thames. He worked as a bell hanger and a bargeman on the Thames before a stint in the Royal Navy. But in the split second that her head spun around to verify what Thames told her, Sam's right leg shot up in a scissors kick. Only later when I walked the whole of the Thames I found it wiggled and curved with no right angles. This is our only intention, we want to do right by the residents of Richmond upon Thames. Police said she had made withdrawals from her bank account on both days, but they had received no reports of anyone jumping into the Thames. There is a limit to the amount of water the River Thames can take, without it backing up and flooding new areas. Thames Water is celebrating its tap water being above average for the third year running. The Museum of Richmond is hosting a talk on royal barges and other boats as part of its Tudor by the Thames activities week. On the River Thames near London, 11 rowers had to be rescued after their rowing boats were swamped by huge waves and nearly sank. Declared biologically dead in 1957, the Thames is now awash with wildlife, ecologists say. Show More Sentences They are men of leisure, going on a voyage down the Thames River from Kingston to Oxford. And last summer the first sea horse was recorded in the Thames estuary in 30 years. He lives under Newham Council's jurisdiction, so credit to the council for taking Thames Water to task and getting them before the beak. The new plan proposed an embankment like his original one, this time on the left bank of the Thames from Hungerford to London Bridge. The Carina, built in 1903, is one of a veteran fleet of sailing boats owned by Surbiton-based Thames Sailing Club. It's not far from here down to the Thames, and the river was even closer in days gone by. In the 16th century, Acts of Parliament regulated the watermen and wherrymen working on the tidal Thames between Gravesend and Windsor. Each six-passenger boat carries you through the dank waters of the Thames and then wheezily hoists you to the rooftops. The SPA, he says, blows a hole in government plans for more than 200,000 new homes by 2016 in the Thames Basin and Thames Gateway areas. When the Thames Barrier Park first opened, the only access was by bus or a long walk from the nearest railway station. A trio of traditional Venetian rowing boats will make their way down the Thames to Richmond on Monday afternoon. Gale force winds and strong tides sank a rowing boat on the Thames on Sunday. Mars shone brightly once again as we put to sea for the overnight sail into the Thames and debarkation at Tilbury, a landing stage downriver from London. The whale calf is thought to have become separated from its mother in the lower Thames, where the sighting of another, larger bottlenose whale was reported. As the only British label mate of Ryan Adams and Lucinda Williams, Topley has long since traded traces of Thames Estuary for Delta blues and a wash of the Caribbean. The London Assembly has launched an investigation into why 600,000 tonnes of raw sewage was pumped into the Thames last month, killing thousands of fish. The reason that the land was so waterlogged is because the weir systems keep the Thames level artificially high, thereby affecting all the land that should be drained down. The germ of the novel was an article in The Guardian highlighting the 50 to 60 bodies pulled from the Thames every year. Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames, was the dumping ground for noxious industries like tanning and brewing and dangerous trades like burning lime and making saltpeter. I had fished both the tidal and non tidal Thames for pike for many years. Show More Sentences One firm sent its lighters, the London County Council dispatched its hopper barges, and the Port of London nine of its tugs which towed Thames sailing barges behind them. It also includes artist impressions together with a painting by Jonathan Foyle, recreating the abbey as it may have appeared in about 1500 from the River Thames. Brosnan is effortlessly dashing as he pilots a speedboat in a high-speed chase on the Thames River in London. His book The Bayeux Tapestry has just been reprinted by Thames and Hudson. The young woman, a child clinging to each hand, urged those in the momentous queue lining the River Thames to pay her respects to the late Queen Mother on her behalf. Southwark has long been the dark side of London, with the southern banks of the Thames home to brothels, bear-baiting and some bloke called William Shakespeare. Worse, on a seriously winding and narrow road, like the one up the Thames coast, I am tailgated by drivers who then pass on blind corners, sounding their horns. On Wednesday, John's 15-year-old son Patrick was presented with a testimonial for saving a boy aged eight from the Thames near the Teddington suspension bridge. A rapier and a dagger found on the Thames foreshore show us that swordfights routinely broke out on the streets of London. The Ait is 30 miles from the mouth of the Thames yet is still tidal. They were found on what was once the Thames foreshore, and would have been stored underwater in a wattle enclosure to stop the wood drying out and splitting. I was driven in a nice silver car with leather upholstery along the Thames, alongside the Houses of Parliament with the London Eye and Big Ben fighting for airspace. This long free fishing section of the Thames has a habit of turning up more than its fair share of surprise catches including big chub and barbel. Sitting in a leather-bound window seat in the Pugin Room of the Commons, overlooking the Thames, Marsden makes for an unlikely and accidental rebel. James II flung the great seal into the Thames when he fled in 1688, hoping to bring government to a standstill, but it was retrieved by a fisherman. When they moved back to London, the only accommodation they could afford was a freezing, leaky barge on the Thames. When English counties were established their boundaries were partly determined by the Thames. The earliest known major crossings of the Thames by the Romans were at London Bridge and Staines Bridge. The world's first underwater tunnel was Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel built in 1843 and now used to carry the East London Line. Around 2000, several footbridges were added along the Thames, either as part of the Thames Path or in commemoration of the millennium. Show More Sentences The Woolwich Ferry carries cars and passengers across the river in the Thames Gateway and links the North Circular and South Circular roads. Treated sewage from all the towns and villages in the Thames catchment flow into the Thames via sewage treatment plants. However, untreated sewage still regularly enters the Thames during wet weather. Other regattas, head races and university bumping races are held along the Thames which are described under Rowing on the River Thames. The most popular sailing craft used on the Thames are lasers, GP14s and Wayfarers. One sailing boat unique to the Thames is the Thames Rater, which is sailed around Raven's Ait. The River Thames has been a subject for artists, great and minor, over the centuries. The Thames is mentioned in many works of literature including novels, diaries and poetry. Jerome, first published in 1889, is a humorous account of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. Upriver, Henry James' Portrait of a Lady uses a large riverside mansion on the Thames as one of its key settings. He was disturbed while writing it in June 1667 by the sound of gunfire as Dutch warships broke through the Royal Navy on the Thames. Eliot makes several references to the Thames in The Fire Sermon, Section III of The Waste Land. The utopian News from Nowhere by William Morris is mainly the account of a journey through the Thames valley in a socialist future. In The Deptford Mice trilogy by Robin Jarvis, the Thames appears several times. The Water Music composed by George Frideric Handel premiered on 17 July 1717, when King George I requested a concert on the River Thames. The most significant centre of population is London, at the head of the Thames estuary, one of the largest cities in the world. The Thames is a clear end point to the south west, whereas north east of Luton the hills decline slowly in prominence. The River Thames flows through a gap between the Berkshire Downs and the Chilterns. This took place between about 478,000 to 424,000 years ago, and was responsible for the diversion of the River Thames onto its present course. The parish is bounded by the Thames to the north, west and south, and by present and former field boundaries to the east. Show More Sentences The toponym comes from the Old English Cula's hamm, referring to the village's position in a bend of the Thames. Road traffic between Culham and Sutton Courtenay crossed the Thames via Culham Ferry until 1807, when Sutton Bridge was built. Brunel's father, Marc, was the chief engineer, and the project was funded by the Thames Tunnel Company. In May 1845 Hungerford Bridge, a suspension footbridge across the Thames near Charing Cross Station in London, was opened. Brunel's first engineering project, the Thames Tunnel, is now part of the London Overground network. The British government agreed to release funds for a new building on the South Bank of the Thames. The numbers on the signs are kilometres from a point near the River Thames, east of London, when travelling clockwise on the motorway. The Thames Trains franchise was awarded by the Director of Passenger Rail Franchising to Victory Rail Holdings. There are nine zones, zone 1 being the central zone, which includes the loop of the Circle line with a few stations to the south of River Thames. The Port of Tilbury is located on the River Thames at Tilbury in Essex, England. In 1992 the port was privatised and is part of the Forth Ports organisation, the PLA retaining the role of managing the tidal Thames. The current position of the English Channel was a large river flowing westwards and fed by tributaries that later became the Thames and Seine. There were so few of them that I indeed cannot think of a single one south of the Thames when I became king. This seems to be quoted to justify the gifts of salmon from Thames fishermen that the abbey received in later years. Gildas calls Alban a martyr of Verulamium but says he crossed the river Thames prior to his execution, during the persecution of Diocletian. The Crown confiscated More's home and estate along the Thames in Chelsea after his execution. The modern structures face the Thames and include an entry way that displays More's arms, heraldic beasts, and a Latin maxim. There is a running track at the Thames Valley Athletics Centre and an annual steeplechase. It would have visually dominated the surrounding area and stood out to traffic on the River Thames. The innermost ward encloses an area immediately south of the White Tower, stretching to what was once the edge of the River Thames. Show More Sentences Edward extended the south side of the Tower of London onto land that had previously been submerged by the River Thames. According to the contemporary chronicler Roger of Howden, Longchamp dug a moat around the castle and tried in vain to fill it from the Thames. Eton College is located within about half a mile of the castle, across the River Thames. It is immediately south of the River Thames, which forms its boundary with its ancient twin town of Eton. The Windsor 1st team currently play in Division 2A of the Thames Valley League. There is a small river in the north of the park called the Battle Bourne running to the Thames near Datchet. Windsor Castle was begun in the 11th century by William the Conqueror as it afforded a good defensive point over the River Thames. The merchants lived and plied their trade at the Steelyard, a complex of warehouses, offices, and dwellings on the north bank of the Thames. Also in March, the Shelleys moved with Claire and Alba to Albion House at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, a large, damp building on the river Thames. By November 1680, Playford had established himself in a house in Arundel Street 'near the Thames side, the lower end, over against the George. In July 1717 Handel's Water Music was performed more than three times on the Thames for the King and his guests. It premiered on 17 July 1717, in response to King George I's request for a concert on the River Thames. Recording sessions for the album began on Gilmour's houseboat, the Astoria, moored along the River Thames. Since 2003, a firework display centred on the London Eye and South Bank of the Thames has been provided as an alternative. He was brought up at Long White Cloud house on the right bank of the River Thames. He made his television debut in The Thames Snooker Classic when he was 14, with Steve Davis commentating on the match. On polling day itself two polling stations in Kingston upon Thames were flooded by rain and had to be relocated. In England most of these executions took place at Execution Dock on the River Thames in London. Many were held on hulks on the Thames or in Tilbury Fort, and executions took place in Carlisle, York and Kennington Common. Other major sporting events in the UK include the London Marathon, and The Boat Race on the River Thames. Show More Sentences The longest river entirely within England is the River Thames which flows through the English and British capital, London. Inland connections for smaller craft are extensive but handle only one quarter of the goods traffic handled in the Thames. The GLA is based at City Hall, a new building on the south bank of the River Thames, next to Tower Bridge. Also combined were services from Paddington, run by Thames Trains and First Great Western, which were renamed First Great Western Link. Although for several decades the company had a refinery at Shell Haven on the Thames, there is no evidence of this having provided the name. Leo McKern played Turner in The Sun is God, a 1974 Thames Television production directed by Michael Darlow. It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the South Bank by the River Thames, and finally in Chelsea, its current location. In 1991 the sculpture department moved to a converted factory across the river Thames in Battersea. I shall plunge into the Thames where there is least chance of my being snatched from the death I seek. On 11 December, James tried to flee to France, first throwing the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames. Another small New Town, Thamesmead, was developed adjacent to the Thames in the early 1960s but suffered from poor transport links. William moved up the Thames valley to cross the river at Wallingford, where he received the submission of Stigand. One such example would be the large number of industrial estates located along the River Thames in the Thames Gateway area of London. Paddington is the terminus for suburban trains to West London and the Thames Valley, also operated by Great Western Railway. By 1980, however, his drinking meant that Thames Television would not give him another starring series, and Cooper's Half Hour was his last. Herring and plaice are two commercially important species that use the Thames Estuary for this purpose. On 20 January 2006, a northern bottlenose whale was spotted in Central London in the River Thames. In 854 a raiding party overwintered a second time, at the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames estuary. The London Kontor, established in 1320, stood west of London Bridge near Upper Thames Street, the site now occupied by Cannon Street station. Afterwards, the Thames and Scheldt flowed through the gap into the English Channel, but the Meuse and Rhine still flowed northwards. Show More Sentences Noordhinder Bank is a shoal in the southern part of the North Sea, between Antwerp and the mouth of the Thames. The UK constructed storm surge barriers on the River Thames below London and on the River Hull where it meets the Humber estuary. The Thames refinery was opened in Silvertown, east London, by founder Henry Tate after he bought up the rights to the newly-invented sugar cube. The ports of London, Liverpool, and Newcastle lie on the tidal rivers Thames, Mersey and Tyne respectively. Its principal rivers are the Severn, Thames, Humber, Tees, Tyne, Tweed, Avon, Exe and Mersey. Through the scoured channel passed a river, which drained the combined Rhine and Thames westwards to the Atlantic. Portland cement was used by the famous English engineer Marc Isambard Brunel several years later when constructing the Thames Tunnel. The City of London repeatedly indicted gas companies in the 1820s for polluting the Thames and poisoning its fish. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. Two recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area. This bridge either crossed the Thames, or gave access to a now lost island in the river. Both structures are on the south bank, at a natural crossing point where the River Effra flows into the River Thames. The Thames Barrier was completed in the 1980s to protect London against tidal surges from the North Sea. The city is split by the River Thames into North and South, with an informal central London area in its interior. The Thames Valley is a floodplain surrounded by gently rolling hills including Parliament Hill, Addington Hills, and Primrose Hill. Since the Victorian era the Thames has been extensively embanked, and many of its London tributaries now flow underground. In 1974, a decade of work began on the construction of the Thames Barrier across the Thames at Woolwich to deal with this threat. What was formerly the Millennium Dome, by the Thames to the east of Canary Wharf, is now an entertainment venue called the O2 Arena. They indicate that 2000 species of flowering plant have been found growing there and that the tidal Thames supports 120 species of fish. London has frequent river boat services on the Thames known as Thames Clippers. Show More Sentences The River Thames flows through the region and its basin is known as the Thames Valley. It was abolished on 31 March 2009 and replaced with South East England Councils in Kingston upon Thames. The best known university in the region is the University of Oxford, famous for its ornate colleges and its rowing teams on the Thames. Numerous weapons have also been recovered from rivers, especially the Thames, but also the Trent and Tyne. Cassivellaunus, a warlord from north of the Thames, had previously been at war with most of the British tribes. Their territory was on the north side of the Thames estuary in current Essex and Suffolk, and included lands now located in Greater London. This site commands The Ridgeway, which connects the River Thames with the River Avon and River Severn beyond. The same is true of the settlements along the rivers Ouse, Trent, Witham, Nene and along the marshy lower Thames. Archaeological surveys show that Angles settled the lands north of the River Thames by the 6th century. In time this would deprive Wessex of its territories north of the Thames and the Avon, encouraging the kingdom's reorientation southwards. In 851 a huge Danish army, said to have been carried on 350 ships, arrived in the Thames estuary. In 879 a Viking fleet that had assembled in the Thames estuary sailed across the channel to start a new campaign on the continent. This suggests that West Kent at this point was independent of East Kent, and part of the Kingdom of the East Saxons north of the Thames Estuary. Meanwhile, the force under Hastein set out to march up the Thames Valley, possibly with the idea of assisting their friends in the west. Edmund was able to temporarily relieve London, driving the enemy away and defeating them after crossing the Thames at Brentford. William then marched to Southwark, across the Thames from London, which he reached in late November. Upon news of this, Stephen returned with a large army, and the two sides confronted each other across the River Thames at Wallingford in July. Katherine's burial place was located in the London parish church of St James Garlickhithe, between Skinner's Lane and Upper Thames Street. In 1607, the Company decided to build its own ships and leased a yard on the River Thames at Deptford. In 1599, a partnership of members of the company built their own theatre on the south bank of the River Thames, which they named the Globe. Show More Sentences The contemporary guild democracy movement won its greatest successes among London's transport workers, notably the Thames watermen. London Bridge was the only physical connection between the City and the south side of the river Thames and was itself covered with houses. He hoped that the River Fleet would form a natural firebreak, making a stand with his firemen from the Fleet Bridge and down to the Thames. On 11 December, James tried to flee to France, allegedly first throwing the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames. Some 29 river navigation improvements took place in the 16th and 17th centuries starting with the Thames locks and the River Wey Navigation. The first Act for navigational improvement in England was in 1425, for improvement of the river Lea, a major tributary of the River Thames. As early as 1790 London was linked to the national network via the River Thames and the Oxford Canal. After this, Bazalgette designed the Thames Embankment which housed sewers, water pipes and the London Underground. Attacks against East End docks were effective and many Thames Barges were destroyed. The Palace of Westminster site was strategically important during the Middle Ages, as it was located on the banks of the River Thames. A crucial consideration was transportation, achieved on water via the Chesterfield Canal, the North Sea, and the rivers Trent and Thames. Directly below them, the libraries of the two Houses overlook the Thames from the principal floor. The Port of Tilbury is also located on the Thames Estuary, to the west of London Gateway. The assembly was established in 2000 and meets at City Hall on the south bank of the River Thames, close to Tower Bridge. At GCSE, the best borough is Kingston upon Thames, closely followed by Sutton. This provision was used to exchange two islands on the River Thames between Richmond upon Thames and Surrey. He eventually crossed the River Thames at Wallingford, pillaging the land as he went. It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea via the Thames Estuary. Thames Valley Police is a formal body that takes its name from the river, covering three counties. Rowing and sailing clubs are common along the Thames, which is navigable to such vessels. Show More Sentences The Thames is the longest river entirely in England, but the River Severn, which is partly in Wales, is the longest river in the United Kingdom. These provided a firm base for a trading centre at the lowest possible point on the Thames. Other water birds to be found on the Thames include the great crested grebe, coot, moorhen, heron and kingfisher. The Thames contains both sea water and fresh water, thus providing support for seawater and freshwater fish. The eel is particularly associated with the Thames and there were formerly many eel traps. Freshwater fish of the Thames and its tributaries include brown trout, chub, dace, roach, barbel, perch, pike, bleak and flounder. The Thames is also host to some invasive crustaceans, including the signal crayfish and the Chinese mitten crab. The population of grey and harbour seals numbers up to 700 in the Thames Estuary. Once King William had won total control of the strategically important Thames Valley, he went on to invade the rest of England. As early as the 1300s, the Thames was used to dispose of waste matter produced in the city of London, thus turning the river into an open sewer. Efforts were made to resolve the navigation conflicts upstream by building locks along the Thames. The dumping of raw sewage into the Thames was formerly only common in the City of London, making its tideway a harbour for many harmful bacteria. Alongside the entire river runs the Thames Path, a National Route for walkers and cyclists. In the early 1980s a pioneering flood control device, the Thames Barrier, was opened. This part of the Thames links to existing navigations at the River Wey Navigation, the River Kennet and the Oxford Canal. Boats can be approved by the harbour master to travel at speeds of up to 30 knots from below Tower Bridge to past the Thames Barrier. In 1909 the powers of the Thames Conservancy over the tidal river, below Teddington, were transferred to the Port of London Authority. In 1974 the Thames Conservancy became part of the new Thames Water Authority. It borders the River Thames and the North Sea to the north, and the Straits of Dover and the English Channel to the south. In the late 19th century huge modern mills were built at Dartford and Northfleet on the River Thames and at Kemsley on The Swale. Show More Sentences However, Plautius defeated first Caratacus, then Togodumnus, on the rivers Medway and Thames. They included speedboats, Thames vessels, car ferries, pleasure craft, and many other types of small craft. The Margery, launched in Dumbarton in 1814, in January 1815 became the first steamboat on the River Thames, much to the amazement of Londoners. After testing in the Thames, the boat steamed to Paris where she was used on the River Seine. Beckwith organised a spectacle by showing Webb swimming miles in the River Thames. A conclave of nobles declared Edgar as king of the territory north of the Thames. Albans in 1213, based on high water occurring 48 minutes later each day, and three hours earlier at the Thames mouth than upriver at London. Regardless, he was executed and his body was hung in chains over the River Thames for years. National Cycle Route 4 and the Thames Path, a modern long distance footpath, run through the county. Its closest equivalents are the blockhouses built by Henry VIII on the River Thames. The design of the castle is unusual for the period, and is only seen elsewhere in blockhouses along the River Thames. He was also Commissioner of the Sewers, responsible for the upkeep of the embankments of the Thames between Deptford and Gravesend. The exception is between Zones 1 and 2, where the River Thames defines the boundary. The hills dip steeply forming a scarp onto the Thames valley to the north, and dip gently to the south. He also invaded Kent, in 686, and may have founded a monastery at Hoo, northeast of Rochester, between the Medway and the Thames. The hippopotamus was distributed as far north as the rivers Rhine and Thames. One of the largest and most popular rowing regattas is the Henley Royal Regatta held on the River Thames, England. Inland connections for smaller craft are extensive but handle only a quarter of the goods traffic handled in the Thames. The only topography on it is the River Thames, letting the reader know whether a station is north or south of the river. West Saxon and Kentish occurred in the south, approximately to the south of the River Thames. Show More Sentences The area north of the Thames gradually expanded to include East Ham, Stratford, West Ham and Plaistow as more land was built upon. An invasion of Canada which culminated in the Battle of the Thames was then launched from Michigan. Finally, on 10 November 1849 the Cornish Diamond sailed up the River Thames to London with Engels on board. In 1825 Marc Isambard Brunel began work on the Thames Tunnel, intended to link Rotherhithe with Wapping. The River Thames was key to the Warren and its operations from the earliest days. Until the arrival of the railways, the Thames was the principal artery connecting Woolwich to London. Further west, the Thames Barrier is an interesting example of modern architecture and technical achievement. Virtually nothing is left of the old town of Woolwich which was near the ferry and the parish church along the Thames. In 1805 the Thames Archway Company was formed with the intention of driving a tunnel beneath the Thames between Rotherhithe and Limehouse. In March 1832 William Smith was deposed as chairman of the Thames Tunnel Company. The Thames Tunnel finally officially opened on 25 March 1843 and Brunel, despite ill health, took part in the opening ceremony. After the completion of the Thames Tunnel, his greatest achievement, Brunel was in poor health. The Thames Tunnel is an underwater tunnel, built beneath the River Thames in London, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping. Although it was a triumph of civil engineering, the Thames Tunnel was not a financial success. During the Underground days, the Thames Tunnel was the oldest piece of the Underground's infrastructure. It is currently owned and operated by Thames Water and serves almost all of Greater London. He designed an extensive underground sewerage system that diverted waste to the Thames Estuary, downstream of the main centre of population. Sewers north of the Thames feed into the Northern Outfall Sewer, which feeds into a major treatment works at Beckton. Rainwater mixes with sewage in combined sewers and excess mixed water is discharged into the Thames. They only made part of the lens which was a doublet, Thames Plate Glass Company made the other part. Show More Sentences The original horse pump at Thames Head was replaced by a windmill, but Clowes discovered that he could not stop the summit pound from leaking. In 1893, the Thames and Severn company announced that the canal between Chalford and Inglesham would close two days later. At the same time as the Trust refurbished the canal, the upper Thames was upgraded by the Thames Conservancy. Volunteers for the Trust have since been working to restore both the Stroudwater Navigation and the Thames and Severn Canal. It will form a link between the upper Thames, the North Wilts Canal and the Wilts and Berks Canal. In the same year, the county was extended north of the Thames by the addition of Spelthorne, as a result of the dissolution of Middlesex. To the north of the Downs the land is mostly flat, forming part of the basin of the Thames. Surrey may have formed part of a larger Middle Saxon kingdom or confederacy, also including areas north of the Thames. This reservoir now forms part of the southern extension of the Thames Water Ring Main. In 1826, Marc Brunel offered him a post as resident engineer for the Thames Tunnel, but withdrew it in favour of his son Isambard Brunel. At this time all work had ceased on the Thames Tunnel due to repeated flooding and lack of finances. Do you remember when you jumped into the water after the flowers? I fancy it was then you really set the Thames on fire. The baronet will never set the Thames on fire, but there seems no harm in him. A splendidiferous two-roomed tent was the surrounds, with the Thames glinting quietly just a few yards away. On Wednesday, Titan made the 35-mile journey from the Thames Valley Police stables at Witan Gate, Milton Keynes, to the sanctuary. A Jackass penguin had been spotted in the Thames, and readers were treated to a close-up of the creature jogging on the beach. A clubber died after being stabbed in Kingston upon Thames, south west London. He amazes with his close-up magic and with his huge stunts such as walking across the Thames and levitating above The Shard. They love his levitating tricks and when he walked on water across the Thames last year. I want Labour to reach out to people like Richard Hawkins, a lockkeeper on The Thames. Find more words! 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