River Thames – Battersea Riverside 2012

River Thames – Battersea Riverside: Tuesday 14th August 2012 was a pleasant day with blue sky and a few attention-grabbing clouds within the sky and I had an hour or two to spare.

So I took a stroll from Battersea Bridge to Wandsworth alongside the Thames Path.

Battersea Bridge crosses the river to Chelsea and I photographed the views over the river in the direction of Tons Highway Energy Station and Chelsea Harbour.

This can be a stretch of the river I’ve walked fairly a number of occasions through the years. It’s a straightforward journey for me to get there however it is usually one of many extra attention-grabbing and various to stroll.

After I first walked this manner within the Seventies this was an industrial space, with factories and wharves and restricted entry to the river. Now the Thames Path takes you alongside the riverside with just a few brief diversions.

Many of the riverside is now lined with blocks of costly flats fairly than the flour mills, oil depots and an influence station at Fulham I photographed again then.

There are nonetheless a number of traces of that industrial previous, although some had been being demolished on either side of the river again in 2012.

The sand and gravel works immediated upstream from Wandsworth Bridge was nonetheless there and nonetheless working after I final visited the world a number of months in the past, though I anticipate earlier than lengthy it’s going to even be one other luxurious block of flats.

I believe one of the best photos I made that day earlier than catching a practice at Wandsworth City had been in all probability some panoramic photos I’ve not included on this submit as they don’t match properly in its format. You’ll be able to see these and others from the stroll on My London Diary at Battersea Riverside.

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