The new super sewer system is just a couple of bolts away from being ready to carry millions of tonnes of Londoners’ waste.

Many people have no idea that a £4.5 billion tunnel the width of three London buses runs across the capital city - and plays ...

Vessels: Is the third edition of the large-scale contemporary arts festival celebrating the stories, places and people of the ...

REVERTING to my letter of December 19, 1883, inserted in NATURE for January 10, 1884, I append an abstract of salient exceptional tides of last year similar to that accompanying my former letter ...

referring to Charles Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend" (1865), which begins with a body being hauled from the Thames one night. But most of the deaths are accidental: people caught by the rising tide ...

City Hall has issued a warning over Sadiq Khan's ambitions to make the River Thames 'swimmable' by 2034. A spokesperson for the Mayor of London has said that the tidal portion of the river will ...

For the first time, all masters responsible for a vessel on the tidal Thames have to undertake a minimum level of training every year. The CPD programme, regulated by the PLA, allows masters and mates ...

In 18th- and 19th-Century London, mudlarks were impoverished citizens (often children) who scraped a meagre living by scavenging for sellable items in the stinking mud of the Thames at low tide.

Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 4 (1837 - 1843), pp. 329-331 (3 pages) ...