These photographs form part of the River Thames Image Collection and cover the Thames from Hambleden to Maidenhead.
The yellow and blue narrowboat is a traditional style British Waterways working boat moored at Marlow. There is a photograph of a lone live-aboard barge moored beneath the hanging forests of Cliveden Reach above Boulter's Lock. There are some photographs of a motor barge arriving at the beautifully landscaped Bray Lock and various vessels captured before Bisham Abbey – formerly an Augustinian priory, dating from the 12th century, and now a National Sports Centre.
The images featuring the white arched building are of Medmenham Abbey, which stands upstream of Hurley Lock. The Abbey was founded by the Cistercian Order in 1204. The blue 'inspection' launch in one of these images is a patrol vessel belonging to the Environment Agency – the navigation authority for the River Thames
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