Visit London Blog » the thames http://blog.visitlondon.com Enjoy the very best of London Thu, 23 May 2013 09:27:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 London Video of the Week: LONDON – By Natural Light by FramE FramFilm http://blog.visitlondon.com/2012/08/london-video-of-the-week-london-by-natural-light-by-frame-framfilm/ http://blog.visitlondon.com/2012/08/london-video-of-the-week-london-by-natural-light-by-frame-framfilm/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:45:51 +0000 Zoe Craig http://blog.visitlondon.com/?p=28161

Each Friday, we like to highlight a particularly great London video we’ve found online.

This week top video is by  on Vimeo, and shows London looking gorgeous in natural light. Look out for some top London attractions including Piccadilly Circus, Big Ben, The Shard, Oxford Street, Tower Bridge, the London Eye and St Paul’s Cathedral.

Check out more London videos on our YouTube channel

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We love Past London‘s photo of old and new foundations in London. The new is The Shard in the background which is due to be completed in 2012 but is already making a striking impression on the London skyline.

The Shard will be home to viewing galleries, restaurants and a hotel, as well as offices and residential homes.

Don’t forget to add your photos to the Visit London Flickr group – we could be featuring your picture next week!

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The sailors hanging on to the rigging at the top of this tall ship have an excellent view of London, although not quite as high as the viewing platform of The Monument in the background. The ship, photographed by Baynes Media, has passed under Tower Bridge into the upper Pool of London, next to HMS Belfast and the Tower of London.

Have you seen the sights in London this week? Don’t forget to add your photo to the Visit London Flickr group.

You can watch ships passing under Tower Bridge on our Tower Bridge Live webcam.

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This cover picture from The Royal Thames, a guide to London published in 1937 was shared with the Visit London Flickr group by mikeyashworth.

The photo is in two Flickr groups which gather nostalgic images from books about London, London Books and Maps and London Books and Their Illustrations.

Do you collect old London guidebooks? Have you got a favourite online archive of vintage London images? Tell us about it!

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Pete Riches has entered our Only in London Flickr Photo competition with this lovely photo of Canada Geese grazing on the banks of the Thames.

Add your photos to the Visit London Flickr Pool with the tag onlyinlondon2010 and you could win top price tickets to Jersey Boys and a night at the Thistle Marble Arch Hotel.

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With the recent warm weather, I decided there was no better time to see London by speedboat along the Thames!

We headed off to Embankment Pier in Central London for the Thames RIB Experience which offers a thrilling guided boat tour of the Thames with a dash of James Bond to indulge the thrill seekers out there.

Equipped with life jackets we boarded the boat and it sped by popular London sights including the London Eye, the Houses of Parliament, the Tower of London and Canary Wharf. Our hilarious guide Dean provided useful and funny facts about London.  

The real action began as the RIB tore up the Thames providing screams, laughter and an exhilarating experience for all!

Tours depart daily in rain or shine taking groups of up to 12 people.  Book tickets 

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Take a trip back in time in London, to when colour film was pretty exciting!

As Sonia Genaitay explains:

This film is tricky to describe: is it a boat study, a film-poem, an experiment, a picture postcard? One thing is certain: it’s a rare colour snapshot of the Thames and London in the 1930s – and it looks quite magical.

Colour film was still a novelty for audiences in 1935, and the photography (using the new Gasparcolor system) succeeds in accentuating the sharp contrast between the vivid green banks of the countryside and the drab tones of the industrial landscape.

Look out for the fantastic old images of Tower Bridge and Docklands: beyond that, we hardly recognised any other landmarks, particularly as it goes further down river and “out to sea”. Could you spot any more familiar areas of the Thames?

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