Walking In London: London walk along the Thames at Kingston Riverside
This London walk takes place in Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey – a 30-minute train ride from Waterloo Station. This 17-minute walk takes you along the River Thames on a beautiful autumn day with Halloween just around the corner. The sky is blue, the trees are turning yellow and orange, and everyone is enjoying one of our final warm days to make the most of the sunny riverside before more ‘typical’ autumn weather takes hold.
The walk starts at Ravens Ait which is on Portsmouth Road just down from Harts Boatyard pub. I walk along Queens Promenade past all the river views, coffee shops and restaurants to Kingston Bridge. There is a Part 2 video which takes you into Kingston Town Centre via the ancient market place, Clattern Bridge and red telephone boxes to complete the walk.
All parts of the walk along the route I have taken are timestamped below.
Route timestamps:
0:25 Ravens Ait to Kingston Bridge along Queens Promenade 17:30
03:05 Riverside toilets (not always open)
05:15 Riverside coffee shop
05:45 Parrs Boats
08:25 Turks Launches (one of their boats was in the Karma Chameleon video for Culture Club)
10:15 Riverside restaurants, pubs and coffee shops 15:50
17:30 Kingston Bridge
The two combined walks – Kingston Riverside (Part 1) and Kingston Town Centre (Part 2) - work very well in reverse, starting at the telephone boxes and ending at Ravens Ait where a pub or two is around the corner for refreshment before the return walk. Or you could continue to Surbiton (around 20 minutes) and get a train to Waterloo from there (I can provide route information or a new walking video on this). From Surbiton you can also take a train to Hampton Court (King Henry VIII) and either walk back along the tow path to Kingston (a good 30-45 minutes, especially if you are tired by then!) or take the train again. In summer, boats also run along this stretch to Kingston and Richmond.
Music credits:
Tracks 1 and 3 (intro music and outro music over timelapse/photos, respectively:
Track 1 Take the Chance by Nicolai Heidlas
Track 3 Chase your Dreams by Nicolai Heidlas
Both tracks can be found on HookSounds:
Nicolai's YouTube channel is well worth checking out:
Track 2 (music used to cover music that was being played by others): As Leaves Fall by Ikson. Lovely music can be found on his YouTube channel here:
Ikson's music is available on SoundCloud:
My equipment:
Gimbal - DJI Osmo 2 Mobile, what a joy this has been to learn and balance;/
LG mobile phone - a bit on its last legs and overheating at all the hard work, but just about hanging in there.
I do the immersive first-person walks with these two items.
For vlogging to camera, I use my Canon G7X Mark ii. One day I hope to buy a proper camera gimbal so as to use the Canon for the actual filming, but this will take a bit of saving up for, and then a bit of learning!
Save Your Riverside on BBC London News
Children at Riverside Primary School protest against Thames Water's plans for Chambers Wharf and Sir Patrick Stewart speaks to BBC London News about the impact. See saveyourriverside.org for more information.
Introducing the new Mayor of Richmond
Cllr Nancy Baldwin was formally sworn in as the 55th Mayor of Richmond upon Thames on Tuesday 14 May 2019.
Cllr Baldwin, who won her council seat in the May 2018 election, has made Richmond her home since 1985 and represents North Richmond for the Liberal Democrats with a special interest in education, children and families.
She begins her Mayoral year after a varied career in which she has worked as a banker, teacher, entrepreneur and actor. Cllr Baldwin lives in Richmond with her husband Adrian and has two sons, Peter and Andrew, who attended local schools and live in London.
Cllr Baldwin will serve Richmond as Mayor for the next 12 months and has chosen to raise money for Home-Start and The Otakar Kraus Music Trust (OKMT). Cllr James Chard, a councillor for Twickenham Riverside, will serve as Deputy Mayor.
Home-Start provides assistance and support to young families who are in struggling with the demands and stresses of parenting young children. Parents with very young children may suffer from isolation and experience difficulties coping with their children’s needs. Home-Start volunteers support these families to develop coping and parenting skills which can help build happy resilient families.
OKMT provides music therapy and projects to children, young people and adults with physical, learning, neurological or psychological difficulties. A small local charity, OK Music Trust, allows these children and adults to express themselves and find community through music.
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Cadbury raises stink over sewage, Rugby World Cup and Heathrow.
At Westminster Ruth Cadbury MP attacks West London's air pollution – especially from Mogden sewage and Heathrow airport. Will the stink embarrass UK at Twickenham stadium during rugby world cup?
Mary II of England
Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) was joint Sovereign of England, Scotland, and Ireland with her husband (who was also her first cousin), William III and II, from 1689 until her death. William and Mary, both Protestants, became king and queen regnant, respectively, following the Glorious Revolution, which resulted in the deposition of her Roman Catholic father, James II and VII. William became sole ruler upon her death in 1694. Popular histories usually refer to their joint reign as that of William and Mary.
Mary wielded less power than William when he was in England, ceding most of her authority to him, though he heavily relied on her. She did, however, act alone when William was engaged in military campaigns abroad, proving herself to be a powerful, firm, and effective ruler.
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Prince Harry's life in Afghanistan
Prince Harry, or Captain Wales as he is known in the military, gives a first-hand tour of his day-to-day life during his 20-week deployment in Afghanistan as a soldier for the British Army.
Dancing for Dave 2017
Spring Grove Kingston Morris dancing for Dave Watmore who died in July 2016. Come All Ye by Fairport Convention and various musicians. A truly magical evening.
STATIONS : Waterloo : Mercury Payphones
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THAMES NEWS - 27.7.88 - MERCURY: INTRODUCTION OF THE
1930s Musicians of East Sheen, Mortlake and Barnes
Discover the homes and lives of 1930s musicians who lived and worked in and around East Sheen, Mortlake and Barnes. This film shows the houses they lived in and short biographies, from famous residents to more forgotten names. To read more about the musicians and buy the chapbook visit the Sampson Low website at
1. Herbert Clay (violin) - 22 Rothesay Avenue, TW10 5EA
2. Harold ‘Bert’ Heath (trumpet) - 12 Leinster Ave, East Sheen, SW14 7JP
3. Winifred Copperwheat (viola) - 4 Westhay Gardens, SW14 7RU
4. Aubrey Brain (French horn) - 22 Richmond Park Rd, East Sheen, SW14 8JT
5. Michael Graydon (French horn) - 7 Park Drive, SW14 8RB
6. Sheelah Field (harp) - 14 Sunbury Avenue, SW14 8RA
7. Arthur Bliss (composer/conductor) - Old Mortlake Burial Ground, SW14 8BP
8. The Bull’s Head - 373 Lonsdale Rd, SW13 9PY
9. Victor Moon (violin) - 38 Brookwood Ave, SW13 0LR
10. Eric James (piano/composer/arranger) - 23 Brookwood Avenue, SW13 0LR
11. Bobby Howell (musical director) - 29 The Crescent, SW13 0NN
12. Walter Harding (piano) - 42 Hillersdon Ave, SW13 0EF
13. Violet Pusey (violin) - 43 Glebe Rd, SW13 0EB
14. George Harlow (cornet) - 72 Elm Grove Rd, Barnes, SW13 0BX
15. Jimmy Mayers (trumpet) - 4 The Crescent, SW13 0NN
16. Frederick Thurston (clarinet) - 22 Lowther Rd, Barnes, SW13 9NX
17. David Andrews (piano) - 49 Castelnau, Barnes, SW13 9RT
18. Percy Whitaker (flute) - 33 Ullswater Rd, Barnes, SW13 9PL
19. George Alexander (piano) - The Coach House, 105 Castelnau, SW13 9EL
20. Joy Boughton (oboe) - 117 Lonsdale Rd, Barnes, SW13 9DA
21. Thomas Wightman (bassoon) - 49 Lonsdale Rd, Barnes, SW13 9JR
22. Mary Keel (oboe) and Frederick Keel (composer) - 207 Castelnau, Barnes, SW13 9EA
Music
Lou Selwyn and his Orch (Nat Star & his Orch) - A Great Big Bunch Of You (4 in 1 Records / No.10)
B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra (Horn Aubrey Brain) - Nocturne (Midsummer Night's Dream) (HMV / D.A. 1318)
Coleman Hawkins - Through For The Night (Esquire / EP 235)
Lou Preager - Hang On The Bell, Nellie (Columbia / F.B. 3486)
Sid Phillips And His Band - Black Cat Rag (HMV / B.D.6141)
Geraldo - Sooner Or Later (You're Gonna Be Comin' Around) (Parlophone / F. 2205)
Published by Sampson Low Ltd in 2019
A World in London Chapbook 6
sampsonlow.com
SLB0137
ISBN 978-1-912960-25-5
Alban Low is a London based artist who illustrates album artwork, publishes books, designs maps, and organises inclusive exhibitions. He is artist-in-residence on the radio programme A World in London with DJ Ritu.
The names and addresses of musicians in this book have been sourced from Musician’s Union handbooks from the 1930s. Every effort has been made to research and verify information and we are grateful to those experts who have helped in the making of this series. If you know any additional information or corrections then we would love to include them in future editions.
Thank you to Roy Cooke; Jack Low; M.G. Thomas; The National Jazz Archives;
The British Library; Melody Maker; NME; The British Newspaper
Archives; The National Archives; BBC; the team at A World In London (DJ Ritu, Sophie Darling, Norman Druker, Lucas Keen, Patrick Bernard); The Gramophone Record Store; and my wife Natalie.
Copyright - Alban Low
Other films in the series include
1930s Musicians of Richmond & Twickenham -
1930s Musicians of Twickenham and Whitton -
1930s Musicians of Tufnell Park -
1930s Musicians of East Sheen, Mortlake and Barnes -
1930s Musicians of Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush -
Sisters of Mercy
The Religious Sisters of Mercy are members of a religious institute of Catholic women founded in 1831, in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. In 2003, the institute had about 10,000 members worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations.
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MRRA 4+ Training for Henley Royal Regatta
Some clips from a Sunday starts workout (for the most part). Lots of start 5s/high 10s at 44-46 strokes per minute. This crew will be racing Henley Royal Regatta in the Britannia Challenge Cup in 2013.
George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 -- 29 November 2001), was an English musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Although John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the band's primary songwriters, most of their albums included at least one Harrison composition, including While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Here Comes the Sun and Something, which became the Beatles' second-most-covered song.
Harrison's earliest musical influences included Big Bill Broonzy, George Formby and Django Reinhardt; Chet Atkins, Chuck Berry and Ry Cooder were significant later influences. By 1965 he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest in the Byrds and Bob Dylan, and towards Indian classical music through his use of the sitar on Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown). He developed an interest in the Hare Krishna movement and became an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, introducing them to the other members of the Beatles and their Western audience by incorporating Indian instrumentation in their music. After the band's break-up in 1970, Harrison released the triple album All Things Must Pass, from which two hit singles originated. He also organized the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Ravi Shankar, a precursor for later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. Harrison was a music and film producer as well as a musician; he founded Dark Horse Records in 1974 and co-founded HandMade Films in 1978.
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The War of the Worlds Audiobook by H.G. Wells | Audiobook with subtitles
The War of the Worlds (Version 3) H. G. WELLS
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gulf of space. With infinite complacency, humanity went about its little affairs, serene in its assurance of its empire over matter. It is possible that the micro-organisms we watch under a microscope, do the same. Few people gave thought to the idea of life on other planets, and none imagined that it could be so vastly superior in intellect to ourselves. No one considered the possibility of extra-terrestrial danger. Yet the eyes that regarded our planet were envious and unsympathetic, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. (Cori Samuel, adapted from Chapter One.)
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Chapters:
0:44 | Chapter 1.The Eve of the War
16:57 |Chapter 2.The Falling Star
26:10 | Chapter 3.On Horsell Common
33:03 |Chapter 4.The Cylinder Opens
41:28 |Chapter 5.The Heat-ray
52:22 |Chapter 6.The Heat-ray in the Chobham Road
58:19 |Chapter 7.How I Reached Home
1:07:44 |Chapter 8.Friday Night
1:14:27 |Chapter 9.The Fighting Begins
1:27:47 |Chapter 10.In the Storm
1:42:39 |Chapter 11.At the Window
1:56:15 |Chapter 12.What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
2:22:02 |Chapter 13.How I Fell In with the Curate
2:34:26 |Chapter 14.In London Audio Book Audiobooks All Rights Reserved. This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer visit librivox.org.
Gothic architecture | Wikipedia audio article
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Gothic architecture
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Gothic architecture is a style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. Originating in 12th-century France, it was widely used, especially for cathedrals and churches, until the 16th century.
Its most prominent features included the use of the rib vault and the flying buttress, which allowed the weight of the roof to be counterbalanced by buttresses outside the building, giving greater height and more space for windows. Another important feature was the extensive use of stained glass, and the rose window, to bring light and color to the interior. Another feature was the use of realistic statuary on the exterior, particularly over the portals, to illustrate biblical stories for the largely illiterate parishioners. These technologies had all existed in Romanesque architecture, but they were used in more innovative ways and more extensively in Gothic architecture to make buildings taller, lighter and stronger.
The first notable example is generally considered to be the Abbey of Saint-Denis, near Paris, whose choir and facade were reconstructed with Gothic features. The choir was completed in 1144. The style also appeared in some civic architecture in northern Europe, notably in town halls and university buildings. A Gothic revival began in mid-18th-century England, spread through 19th century Europe and continued, largely for ecclesiastical and university structures, into the 20th century.