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St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England: exterior view showing scaffolding on the building and the River Thames in the foreground. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
Windsley, H.Date: 1972Reference: 577196i- Books
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Report on the effects of sewage contamination upon the River Thames / by William Odling.
Odling, William, 1829-1921.Date: 1858- Books
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Reprint of report of the committee appointed to take into consideration Mr. Martin's plan for rescuing the River Thames from every species of pollution.
Date: 1836- Books
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The glory of old England.
Date: 1739-40- Books
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Great-Britain's coasting pilot: In two parts. Being a new and exact survey of the sea-coast of England and Scotland, from the River of Thames to the Westward and Northward; with the islands of Scilly, and from thence to Carlisle: likewise the islands of Orkney and Shetland, describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place; the setting and flowing of the tides; with directions for the knowing of any place, and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety. With directions for coming into the channel between England and France. By Captain Greenvile Collins; hydrographer in ordinary to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
Collins, Greenvile, active 1669-1698.Date: M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]- Books
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The new seaman's guide, and coaster's companion, Containing complete sailing directions for ships, both outward and homeward bound, through the River Thames, and all its entrances, the British and Bristol Channels, on both coasts, including all the harbours; the coast of Wales; West Coasts of England and Scotland; the South coasts of Ireland; and the islands of Man, Scilly, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, &c. Also the East Coast of Great Britain, with the Orkney, Shetland, and Western Islands; the Coasts of Flanders, Holland, and Germany; the North Sea, Cattegat, Sound, Baltic, gulf of Finland, and northern navigation to the White Sea. And all the useful tables, viz. tables of the magnetic courses, and distances from place to place, for all the Coasts of Europe, and many of Africa and Asia: with the variations. A table of the distances by water, in miles, from London to the principal ports in Great Britain, Ireland, part of France, Flanders, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, throughout the Baltic and the Mediterrean. Copious tables of latitudes and longitudes, from the best and latest observations: and improved and corrected tide tables; to which are subjoined, easy methods of sinding the Epagt, the moon's age, and the day of new moon. A new and correct edition: improved and augmented by many important additions and observations from new surveys. By John Diston, M. Downie, master in the Royal Navy, and Alexander Ingram,teacher of Navigation and mathematics in Leith, and author of the newly much improved and corrected edition of Simson's Euclid; as also of the principles of geography, and of the corrected and enlarged edition of Hutton's arithmetic and key.
Diston, John.Date: 1800- Books
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A true account of the voyage of the Nottingham-Galley of London, John Dean commander, from the River Thames to New-England, Near which Place she was cast away on Boon-Island, December 11, 1710. by the Captain's Obstinacy, who endeavour'd to betray her to the French, or run her ashore; with an Account of the Falsehoods in the Captain's Narrative. And a faithful Relation of the Extremities the Company was reduc'd to for Twenty-Four Days on that desolate Rock, where they were forc'd to eat one of their Companions who died, but were at last wonderfully deliver'd. The whole attested upon oath, by Christopher Langman, Mate; Nicholas Mellen, Boatswain; and George White, Sailor in the said Ship.
Date: [1711]- Pictures
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The Thames river, Pangbourne, England: boats by a jetty on the river. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 575030i- Books
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Town excreta, its utilization : London sewage, shall it be wasted? or economised? : being a plan for the collection and treatment of the faecal matter of towns, for purifying the sewers and rivers, and removing the chief impurities which render them dangerous to the health of communities : with especial and immediate reference to the metropolis, the River Thames, and the Board of Works' main drainage scheme / by Charles F.O. Glassford.
Glassford, Charles F.O.Date: 1858- Pictures
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St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth: from the north bank of the river Thames, in front of New Scotland Yard, traffic on Westminster Bridge in the foreground. Wood engraving, 1871.
Date: 1871Reference: 25049i- Books
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Report on the Wey valley floods in relation to public health / by the Consulting Medical Officer.
Surrey (England). County Council.Date: 1913- Books
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'Our water supply' : a discussion for and against the fitness of Thames and river water for domestic use.
Date: 1880- Books
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Outline of a comprehensive plan for diverting the sewage of London and Westminster from the Thames and applying it to agricultural purposes, for improving the navigation of the river, and for establishing a supply of pure water to the metropolis / by John Martin.
Martin, John, 1789-1854.Date: 1850- Books
Dam the Thames : a matter of sanitation, comfort and economy : a plan for a tideless river in London.
Date: 1936- Books
Providing the essential service at the heart of daily life, health and enjoyment / Thames Water.
Thames Water (Firm)Date: [2013]- Books
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A dissertation on rivers and tides. Intended to demonstrate in general the effect of bridges, cuttings, removing of shoals and imbankments; and to investigate in particular the consequences of such works on the river Thames Respectfully Addressed to the Right Honourable William Beckford, Esq; Lord Mayor of London, Conservator of the River Thames. By Robert Erskine, engineer, &c.
Erskine, Robert, 1735-1780.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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Report of the commissioners appointed to examine into plans for embanking the Surrey side of the River Thames within the metropolis with plan and appendices : presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.
Great Britain. Thames Embankment Commission (Surrey Side)Date: 1862- Pictures
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The Thames river, London: a cross-section of the first tunnel under the river, shipping in the river, and Rotherhithe beyond. Engraving by Silvester & Co., ca. 1830.
Date: [1830?]Reference: 36473i- Books
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Register of tides in the River Thames : taken at Deptford, London Bridge, & Battersea, from 19th June to 19th July, 1849.
London (England). Metropolitan Commission of Sewers.Date: [1849]- Books
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Report on a survey of the River Thames from Boulter's lock to the city stone near Staines and on the best method of improving the navigation of the said River, and making it into as compleat a state of perfection as it is capable of. By Robert Mylne, F. R. S. Engineer
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: 24th August 1793- Books
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Rules, orders, and constitutions made by the rulers, auditors, and assistants of the watermen and lightermen of the river of Thames, ...
Company of Watermen and Lightermen (London, England)Date: 1732]- Pictures
Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: a white house with green shutters next to the river. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1968.
Lewis, Muriel, active approximately 1966-1968.Date: 23.3.68 [23 March 1968]Reference: 2998166iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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A voyage up the Thames.
Weddell, active 1737-1742.Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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An history of the principal rivers of Great Britain. ...
Combe, William, 1742-1823.Date: 1794-96- Books
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The naturalist on the Thames / by C. J. Cornish.
Cornish, C. J. (Charles John), 1858-1906.Date: 1902