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editor — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:36:00 +0000

“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” (Speech in the House of Commons, 4 June 1940) “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed

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Greenwich Map London

editor — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 01:12:00 +0000

Thames: Sacred River “In the reaches before Lechlade the water makes its way through isolated pastures; at Wapping and Rotherhithe the dwellings seem to drop into it, as if overwhelmed by numbers. The elements of rusticity and urbanity are nourished equally by the Thames. That is why parts of the river induce calm and forgetfulness, and others provoke anxiety and despair. It is the river of dreams, but it is also the river of suicide. It has been called liquid history because within itself it dissolves and carries all epochs and generations. They ebb and flow like water.” Peter Ackroyd,

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Google Maps Greenwich

editor — Wed, 02 May 2018 06:52:00 +0000

Reflections on the Thames Barrier: A Conundrum The Thames Barrier at Woolwich was completed in 1983, 30 years after the Great Flood of 1953 caused the loss of 300 lives, the displacement of 100,000 residents from 24,000 inundated houses and flats, and immense agricultural damage on the East Coast and in the Thames Estuary. Some 200 miles of railway, 12 gasworks and two large power-stations were put out of action. Central London had escaped by a whisker with only minor flooding and water levels in the River just inches below the parapet walls on either bank. Calculations of the scale

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Greenwich Uk Map

editor — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 23:18:00 +0000

The Sewage Problem Our third priority is the pressing problem of sewage. When, in October 2011, David Walliams completed his 215-mile charity swim from the source of the Thames to Westminster, it was reported that over 110 million imperial gallons (500,000 cubic metres) of raw sewage had entered the River in that short period of several days. Each year, say Thames Water, 40 million tons of raw sewage spills into the River untreated. At least this is better than the Great Stench or Stink of 1858 when sittings in Parliament had to be suspended on account of the strong smells

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