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Boxing Day Stroll – 2014


Boxing Day Stroll: Most years this century we now have walked from Staines to Outdated Windsor for a household lunch, at first at my sister’s home, however extra lately at a pub in Outdated Windsor the place we now have been joined by different family members. We hope to do the identical at the moment, although maybe we would must take a bus, a couple of of that are rumoured to be working, although I feel more likely to be cancelled at zero discover.

The Swanmaster statue had been moved earlier in 2014 to the riverside backyard in Staines

It’s not an incredible distance, although in earlier years we frequently added a couple of miles to the extra direct 5 or so to develop extra of an urge for food, and generally we had too when the trail beside the River Thames was flooded.

Boxing Day Walk - 2014
Workplaces on a small riverside dock on the Surrey financial institution in Staines

On My London Diary you possibly can learn extra about a few of these walks, and particularly about our stroll on Friday twenty sixth December 2014, ten years in the past, once I wrote about it in slightly extra element than normal. Right here I’ll simply submit a couple of of the images from that stroll with some captions, primarily these I wrote again in 2014. The images observe the order of our stroll.

Boxing Day Walk - 2014
The annual Boxing Day Problem (if river movement permits) between Staines Boat Membership and Burway Rowing Membership
Boxing Day Walk - 2014
The newer of the 2 bridges taking the M25 and A30 Staines Bypass throughout the river
Boxing Day Walk - 2014
A floating crane moored by the weir at Bell Weir Lock in water undisturbed by boats
The 1910 water consumption to the Staines aqueduct takes water to reservoirs and therapy works.
Rosehearty has been moored right here for years. The identify is a city on the Moray Firth.
Dock at Bell Weir Boats in Runnymede
Homes on The Island in Wraysbury – many right here had been flooded in February 2014
The Thames at Runnymede, the place we crazily swum within the buff when younger after a night within the Angler’s Relaxation Lodge. Then there was a diving board right here too.
R G Bargee – most boat homeowners appear unable to withstand a pun. We had been nearly there.
One other household at our vacation spot.

Boxing Day Stroll


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