These photographs form part of the River Thames Image Collection and cover the pretty market town of Lechlade, which marks the head of navigation on the Thames (Isis), nearby St John's Lock with recumbant statue of Father Thames, and Kelmscott - a beautiful village of flowery stone cottages and home to William Morris's 16-17c country manor of the same name.
Pictures of Lechlade include views of the small town's high street with stone, pink and whitewashed shops, galleries, businesses, restaurants and pubs, and the hump-backed Ha' penny Bridge (with various people crossing it). Also find images of a poem plaque beside St Lawrence Church marking Shelley's Walk and a grim, early 15c carved figure of St Agatha (associated today with masectomy). Just outside of town, where the Thames winds slowly, there are images of the colourful narrowboat Jemima and views of Lechlade punctuated by the spire of its Perpendicular St Lawrence Church across the meadows.
There are three images of Father Thames at St John's Lock (the statue originally commissioned in 1854 for the Crystal Palace, and which sat at Thames Head between 1959 and 1974), a picture of the lock gates with Lechlade in the distance, and a photo of the splendid Trout Inn (c. 1220) nearby.
The Kelmscott photographs show: William Morris's manor house in the early Spring from different angles (front and rear); the tomb of William, Jane, May and Jane Alice Morris in St George's Church graveyard; visitors to Kelmscott village having lunch under the umbrellas of The Plough Inn (built 1631); and an ornate carved stone panel of 'Morris musing in the Hume Meadow' on the Memorial Cottages in Kelmscott.
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