London Planner MAGAZINES - LP SEPTEMBER 15

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THE RIVER THAMES A VIEW OF THE THAMES London’s liquid lifeline has become its biggest playground, with landmark buildings, restaurants and bars, says Adrian Evans, Director of Totally Thames Festival London was born on the banks of the River Thames. To walk along the Thames is to gaze on 2,000 years of liquid history. This majestic gateway to the sea is the reason why the Romans first chose this spot on which to found Londinium. The Magna Carta was signed on an island in the Thames at Runnymede, near Windsor, in 1215. The Tower of London imprisoned the great and the good (and the not so good), from William ‘Braveheart’ Wallace in 1305 to Guy Fawkes exactly 300 years later, the doomed men being ferried from their sentencing in Westminster to the forbidding walls of the Tower with their executioner standing guard on a boat behind them. The Thames became a great trading route plied by hundreds of ships and barges, a symbol of the British Empire’s sea-faring power. For a long time it had only the one crossing, London Bridge (a later version of which was sold to an American oil corporation in 1968 and now spans the Colorado River), so that residents had to be rowed across by ferrymen, as they still do in Venice. Most of the bridges you see now were added in Victorian times, notably Tower Bridge, whose bascule design allows it to be raised to let through tall ships. FUN FAIRS AND A BIG STINK Between the 16th and 19th centuries, the Thames sometimes froze over, and Londoners threw Frost Fairs on the ice. The last one, in 1814, had an elephant dancing under Blackfriars Bridge. Gradually the Thames became a dirty, busy, chaotic artery through the heart of London – but like a smoker’s, it became hopelessly polluted and clogged. Its waters smelled so much of rotten egg THAMES © THINKSTOCK; ADRIAN EVANS COURTESY OF TOTALLY THAMES 8 | LONDON PLANNER
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