These photographs form part of the River Thames Image Collection and cover the Thames from the beautifully preserved stone village of Hambleden to Maidenhead. There are many travel pictures of motor boats and cruisers, narrowboats and other river traffic, and the locks along this stretch of the Thames. Image locations include: ruined Medmenham Abbey, Hurley Lock, Bisham Abbey, Marlow, Cookham, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's railway bridge outside Maidenhead and Bray Lock.
Stock images of Hambleden include: a pretty stone cottage with flower garden in bloom (and picturesque laundry!); some flint cottages at the heart of the village; and a bicycle (and church tea garden sign) at the entrance gate to St Mary the Virgin. Detail images from the church interior include a late Saxon font, finely sculpted 14c decoration (in clunch, or chalk) of sedilia, and a beautiful memorial incorporating a father and two sons in Royalist garb. There are also some picturesque views from above of the village and church nestled in the wooded valley.
Boating images include a variety of narrow boats (with a traditional style British Waterways working narrowboat), motor boats and cruisers, wooden hull boats, a house barge at Bray Lock, and a tour boat passing beneath Maidenhead Bridge. There are also stock photographs of Maidenhead Rowing Club and details of a rowing boat interior. Also find a series of pictures of differents boats on a particularly rural-looking section of the Thames near Medmenham - with rolling planted fields, round hay bales and lines of trees as a backdrop.
Stock pictures of Cookham include: people going to Holy Trinity Church on a Sunday morning; a crowd of ramblers; the black and white entrance to Churchgate house; and The Crown pub.
There are images around Marlow of River Thames moorings, leisure boating, swans and riverside views of nearby Bisham Abbey - a tudor building converted into a sailing school and sports complex. The memorial plaque in Marlow's All Saints Church depicts stars and stripes incorporated into the coat-of-arms, which has family associations with George Washington, and are thought to have inspired the American national flag.
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