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The Thames, great site!

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Rambling

Rambling Report 4 May 2015 17:42

http://www.panoramaofthethames.com/

Well worth a look if you have relatives who lived or worked along the Thames...

Super photography accompanied by interesting info :-D

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Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 4 May 2015 20:48

RR

Thank you for this.
Absolutely fascinating and I can see myself getting 'lost' in the site for some time :-D

Chris

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Avatar...My darling Dad. 1931-2019 'Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule' Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. 'A brickwall is a problem that you haven't solved yet' Dave Annal http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/brick-walls-and-lost-ancestors/

Rambling

Rambling Report 4 May 2015 21:06

I got lost too Chris, I found it only because I had just been following up a gt gt uncle on the electoral roll and found him in the '30s in 'Hopkin Morris homes of rest' in Chiswick and google brought up the images on the site. Fascinating indeed :-)

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nameslessone

nameslessone Report 5 May 2015 12:16

OMG! Looks though the bankside site that was in the family 180 or so years later had the same purpose in 1829. Must try and find my maps as they haven't yet put on the modern version.

Now, if only it went as far as Greenwich and Woolwich.....

Edit: Oops - got a bit overexcited - I meant 80 years. I have a copy of a document where Gr Grandfather applied to the Thames Conservators for permission to repair the bank.