Plans to build up to 500 homes next to the Thames Barrier could be approved by Greenwich councillors next week – seven years after proposals were first submitted. The Flint Glass Wharf development, on the site of an old glassworks, would replace a go-kart track, a paintball and laser-tag centre, two churches and a waste […]
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Thames Barrier marks 40 years of protecting London from floods
It took eight years to build and was inspired by the taps on its designer’s gas cooker. Now staff at the Thames Barrier are marking 40 years of protecting London from devastating floods. Queen Elizabeth II performed the opening ceremony on May 8, 1984, and since then the barrier’s ten giant steel gates have closed […]
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Take a step into the future: Support proposals for a Thames Barrier Bridge
Twenty years ago, the Golden Jubilee Bridge helped transform the South Bank. Now the team who came up with that idea want to do the same for Charlton and Woolwich, connecting them with communities and transport links north of the Thames. ALEX LIFSCHUTZ of the architecture firm Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands explains why you should support […]
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Team spirit boosts life in lockdown at the Thames Barrier
Steve East has worked at the Thames Barrier for 34 years. In all his time there he’s never experienced a period quite like this. “I always tell people I started when I was 12, but that’s not quite true,” he says over the phone from his office, which overlooks the barrier. He was actually 27 […]
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If the Thames Barrier hadn’t been there last week…
In case you hadn’t seen this already, this image issued by the Environment Agency shows what could have happened to our part of London if the Thames Barrier hadn’t been raised on Thursday to deal with the biggest tide in 60 years. That’s my old house in Greenwich, right at the edge of that wave […]
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