the Thames

Over a hundred years ago people in London were surprised to see a very unusual boat come sailing up the Thames River .

In January 2006, a bottle-nosed whale died in the Thames after it was lifted on to a pontoon ready to be taken back out to sea.

But a Labour member of the London Assembly, John Biggs, argued the cable car was "no substitute" for a bridge across the Thames.

In the UK, the Thames barrier, designed to be raised once every six years, is now being raised six times a year.

The sea reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.

He contemplated washing himself in the Thames, but the river appeared to be dirtier than he was.

It turned up the morning of June 10 in a lobster trap at the mouth of the Thames River in London, England.

This platform is buoyant enough to remain a few inches under the surface, so never seen, and the same color as the Thames.

The shorter length of the Thames whale plus postmortem findings led the scientists to conclude it was a young animal.

He looked across the Thames, and asked his father what was on the other side of the river.

The Thames did not always flow through London.

Besides them, there was a cruise on the Thames River, a visit to the Tower of London as well as a walk through Piccadilly Circus.

In 1599, the company built a worldwide theater beside the Thames in London.

Nonetheless, he ended up in a charge of pirate and being hung by the Thames River.

He is a lazy devil and keeps his talent in a napkin, with his ability and a little energy he could set the Thames on fire.

Immense rivers that dwarf the Thames have been found at the bottom of the ocean by British scientists.

When my entourage and I came across her, she was at the Thames farmer's market, selling fruit and roasted chestnuts.

He often promenades his wife along the Thames Embankment.

It was pleasant to take a photo by the side of the Thames in Wandsworth, London.

It was unveiled over the Thames River outside the ExCel Centre in London.

The Boat Bus, a british bus capable of surfing the Thames.

In the river on the left are some barges remind us that this port of the Thames is still an important waterway and port.

Yet such modest alternatives might still leave the Thames down in the dumps.

The Thames, which is now clean enough to swim in, was polluted for over a hundred years.

The tower in Westminster is sinking into the banks of the Thames, partly as a result of decades of underground excavation.

At the bank of the Thames locates the Big Ben, which is the largest clock in Britain.

Initial examination suggests the humpback, the first to have been found in the Thames, may have died of starvation.

Huibers hopes to sail down the Thames River and dock in London for the 2012 Olympics.

A cycle hire docking station beside the Thames in London.

Many of these narrow streets run down to the Thames, and at the end of many of them warehouses can be seen.

One stood in the southeastern corner of London, near an old Roman wall on the north bank of the Thames River.

He married an English girl and found himself with a great reputation, being employed to design and build the first tunnel under the Thames.

THE Thames Valley provides two contrasting examples of what happens when foreign companies buy British ones.

It faces the Thames blooms, all from the sea back into the London ships, will first saw tower bridge soaring.

Its commanding position, on a hill overlooking the Thames, seems the natural place for the principal building in the area.

The Thames River stank, The air was filled with a "disease odor" , as Londoners called it, and soot clung to ladies' dresses.

Li It must be fun to tour along the Thames in a car instead of a boat.

The fine, old bridge that used to span the Thames near Somerset House was designed by John Rennie.

A juvenile male humpback whale has been found dead in the Thames near Dartford Bridge, Kent, the first ever to be stranded in the river.

This would be cheaper and would allay the worst of the problem in the most-used stretch of the Thames.

That's Ian Fyfe, marketing director of Bateaux London, talking to us on a catamaran cruiser on the Thames. I'm Lily.

A network of ski-resort style cable cars over the Thames was today being considered by London mayor Boris Johnson.

The headquarters of one of Europe's largest accountancy firms overlooks the Thames.

The capital and largest city of the United Kingdom, on the Thames River in southeast England.

Frank Bolter, German artist, was seen sailing down the Thames in a paper boat.

London, the capital of the United Kingdom, is situated on the Thames River near its mouth.

Important rivers flowing into the North Sea are the Thames, Humber, Tees, and Tyne.

At 7m across, the Thames Tunnel would be the width of three buses.

Location - Right on the Thames river at the Battersea heliport overlooking the Thames & Chelsea.

The newly-weds shared a romantic moment aboard a boat on the Thames en route to the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.

As they passed in the penny-steamer, they had swift pictures of groups of naked boys wallowing in the Thames mud.

In Olympic-ready London a new landmark (City Hall) meets old (Tower Bridge) along the Thames.

London, capital of Great Britain, SE England, on both sides of the Thames River.

I've been planning to drive along the road by the Thames some day.

Nature is the river, not a particular river, whether the Ganga, the Thames or the Mississippi.

Then they found they were recruiting people from companies based in the Thames Valley.

The Grand Surrey Canal, completed in 1811, was intended to link the Thames at Rotherhithe with Surrey, but only made it as far as Peckham.

The UK project, being developed on the former Shell Haven oil refinery site in the Thames Estuary includes a business park.

As a result, on a bend in the Thames, one of Europe's greatest regeneration stories took place.

Mary may set the Thames on fire with her piano playing.

Afterwards, the Thames and Scheldt flowed through the gap into the English Channel, but the Meuse and Rhine still flowed northwards.

Climatologists have warned that the Norfolk Broads and the Thames Estuary could be destroyed within 100 years.

Besides, the Tweed, the Tyne, the Tees and the Thames Rivers on the east coast all face the North Sea ports on the European continent.

The river, which flows through London, is called the Thames.

In 1858, raw sewage flowing into the Thames prompted a crisis that nearly resulted in the relocation of Parliament to Hampton Court.

London is the most famous tower bridge over the Thames river, is also the most spectacular Bridges.

We travelled from north to south, with events in Scotland, East of England, London, the Thames Valley.

All the bridges over the Thames afford fine views.

and for father I had Mr Ibbs, who kept the locksmith's shop, at Lant Street, in the Borough, near to the Thames.

Think about the Thames bank. Such edifices will only contribute towards improving the dirty river bank.

Excellent. A view of the Thames. South Bank, somewhere between Southwark Bridge and Waterloo.

THE international diplomatic caravan moves from the Thames to the Rhine.

A municipal borough of south-central England on the Thames River southwest of London.

But the Thames Tunnel is ahistorical milestone in tunnel engineering .

Oxford: A borough of south-central England on the Thames River west-northwest of London.

They go for a sail down the Thames .

Even the blitz didn't stop London's buses, some lamented; how would today's Britons have fared in winters of yore, when the Thames froze?

A better example than the Thames is the Rhine which flows through many countries and passes the largest petrochemical industries of Europe.

John lives in London which is on the Thames.

Leaving Shepperton, B crossed the Thames to the nearby town of Walton.

A municipal borough of southeast England on the Thames River east of London.

The Thames River runs through the city from west to east.

The Thames, which flows through London, is a beautiful river.

We houseboated along the Thames yesterday.

london shall mourn the death of twenty thousand , and the thames will be turned into blood.

standing on the London Tower Bridge, I look at the Thames, with the bell of big ben comes into my ear from time to time.

The housed of Parliament just built, the Thames Embankment newly reclaimed from 32 acres of mud.

Hillary and I went to dinner with Tony and Cherie Blair at a restaurant in a restored warehouse district on the Thames.

Many great cities are built on rivers. Paris is on the Seine, London is on the Thames and Rome is on the Tiber.

30 miles of new developments along both banks of the Thames.

It's not far from here to the Thames.

They invited us to go for a row on the Thames.

This poster sells the virtues of travel and trips on the Thames.

The whole wonderful thing did happen, a long time ago, on the Mersey, on the Elbe, by the Thames and the Hudson River.

He went boating on the Thames, he visited the museums, the parks.

She looked away from me and gazed into the Thames.

London eyes. The London Tower. The Thames.

They are sailing up the Thames.

We boated down the Thames .

The Thames by twilight was beautiful.

He works hard, but he'll never set the Thames on fire.

The Thames rises in the Cotswold Hills.

In the 1970s Britain toyed with the idea of building a big new airport in the Thames estuary to the east of London.

The shore between Blackstable and the mouth of the Thames was very wild.

It's on the north bank of the Thames.

Sunday afternoon, we moored our boat after the Sunbury lock, went to the Magpie pub on the Thames.

Where is the source of the Thames?

if we take a boat trip , we can enjoy the magnificent sights along the thames.

The right bank of the Thames River is on the south side because the river flows east.

They're drilling a new tunnel under the Thames.

Mr Chu jokes that Hong Kong's former rulers, perhaps homesick for the Thames, set out to turn Victoria Harbour into Victoria river.

Because the Thames is tidal, it can take four weeks for the muck to reach the sea.

More water flowed down through Lynmouth that night than normally flows down the Thames in 3 months.

The second largest and most important river in Britain is the Thames River (336km).

London is on the Thames.

The second and most important river is the Thames River, which is very favorable for transportation.

a proposal for a tunnel under the thames between the house of commons and fullers brewery was laughed out of court

Watershed discovery: The river - with 350 times the flow of the Thames - has channels, rapids and waterfalls

The Thames Television Restoration with Stereophonic Orchestral Score by Composer Carl Davis

He swam up the Thames and out through the plughole,

Fallen leaves lie on a path by the Thames opposite Canary Wharf Picture: PA

Generally speaking, the Northern Dialect extends as far south as Humber and the Thames;

'Wally', the whale that died in the Thames in 2006, was badly affected by sonar booms used by the oil industry

The Old London Bridge was built across the Thames in 1209

past the Thames River, glistening like gold

An offshore wind farm in the Thames Estuary

Pm Flood Risk in the Thames Gateway

A. tap water from the Thames River

A Whale in the Thames River

Set the Thames on fire,