[Loukas]

..London's River Thames Was The Coast. Which means it means it a seaside.

London - The Coastal City
The River Thames runs through the heart of London. But where does the coast stop and the River Thames begin?

The Ordinance Survey defines what counts as coast as everywhere that has a tidal range - so how far does that extend? Mark Horton takes a journey through London's maritime history from the arrival of the Romans to the vast complex of the Royal Albert Docks, to try and answer this question. He finds that even the House of Parliament are coastal.

London is here due to its great tideway. But why did the Romans choose to settle here? Over 2,000 years ago Roman sea captains discovered its incoming tide propelled their ships from the sea to London Bridge, the first place that the river is narrow enough to build a crossing point. Archaeological remains of the original Roman bridge have been found here. The city grew up around the conjunction of river and road.

The London Docks helped make it one of the busiest ports in the world. The Royal Albert dock was built in 1874 to help trap tidal waters of the Thames and accommodate bigger ships.

Mark meets up with Terry Bowden who comes from a long line of river men who worked on the docks as a Lighterman, driving barges.

Tower Bridge use to stand in the middle of a dock known as the Pool of London. It was here that London had is very own beach created in the 1930's. Mark joins Martha Snooks and Ted Lewis, who use to come to the beach as children, and reminisce over old times.

As the city expanded the river has been made narrower and the tides have moved further up stream, now they reach as far as Teddington lock. But if it wasn't for Teddington's lock gates it would be tidal for miles and miles.

Source - BBC.co.uk


I went there today, the sand is amazing and there is one beach about 100 meters in length. Loads of people catching some raise. One thing i hated tho.. The colour of the water. I didn't want to go paddling, nobody went paddling.



Did anyone know that?

[andyman]

Yeah knew that... But not really nice.

[Loukas]

Originally posted by andyman
Yeah knew that... But not really nice.

Some parts are really bad and polluted. . But some are really good. London could turn that into a tourism aspect if they clean up the Thames

[andyman]

Nah, people like the beach where the sea, seaside!

Only the locals would use the Thames.

[Loukas]

Originally posted by andyman
Nah, people like the beach where the sea, seaside!

Only the locals would use the Thames.

I really wish the Thames what, Blue insted of Brown :S

I hope they clean it up!

[John.]

You can't call London the coast. This is the coast,



And, as a matter of fact the view from furthest west inhabited place in the UK. (Where I live)

Next stop America only (3500 miles West.)

[Loukas]

Originally posted by JD.
You can't call London the coast. This is the coast,



And, as a matter of fact the view from furthest west inhabited place in the UK. (Where I live)

Next stop America only (3500 miles West.)

All i can say is WOW. That's beautiful.

But london is a coast too

[John.]

Originally posted by DoubleTrouble

All i can say is WOW. That's beautiful.

But london is a coast too

Meh, that's nothing!! : shrug:


The Castle, in Castlebay!



The plane landing on the beach! the only place in the world to have a scheduled beach landing!



And the beach near my house!

[Loukas]

Originally posted by JD.

Meh, that's nothing!! : shrug:


The Castle, in Castlebay!



The plane landing on the beach! the only place in the world to have a scheduled beach landing!



And the beach near my house!

I prefer the first picture.

A Castle. Meh. We have one too. Everyone does. Nothing special.

[John.]

Ahh but yours isn't in the middle of the sea in one of the most naturally sheltered harbours in the world is it?

IMO here's a better one than the first one!

[Loukas]

Originally posted by JD.
Ahh but yours isn't in the middle of the sea in one of the most naturally sheltered harbours in the world is it?

No. But not many people care. Including Me

[Hugo]

LOL.
duh?
don't go in tho. your legs'll dissolve.

[Princess]

My coast :P




Never knew that about the Thames though.

[John.]

Originally posted by Princess
My coast :P




Never knew that about the Thames though.

much better than the thames though!!

[Loukas]

Originally posted by Hugo
LOL.
duh?
don't go in tho. your legs'll dissolve.

LOL.

Probably True. I didn't trust it, but the sand felt like well sand..

[Princess]

Well we have 2 beaches and one is just stones so at least you had sand :P Though one of our beaches does have sand.

[Loukas]

Originally posted by JD.

much better than the thames though!!

Course it *******ing is. Look at it, Plus Laura lives there

[Princess]

Why thank you Loukas :P

[Firewire]

I never knew that.

Although it looks skanky.

[Harry!]

My beautiful coast in Portsmouth

[Ninastar]

All these pictures scare me

[Sophii3x]

^ Aw why? Do you not like the sea or something?

I never knew that about the Thames, the water must be gross though (just by looking at the colour of it).

My coast :P (Swansea Bay)


Then in the Gower (which is a part of Swansea) there's like 15 different beaches around. Here's a pic of a random one (Three Cliffs Bay);

[Hugo]

Everyone lives by the sea.

[Nicky.]

LOL - pretty cool!

My coast - Abersoch <3 (where our chalet is!)

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by Madonna
My beautiful coast in Portsmouth

I go to the Potrsmouth shops every now and then with my mates as i live about an hour away, and I always stop to look at the views, its just soo nice. We took a picture of a guy dressed up as that white big pointy Portsmouth thing.... i dont even know what it is. You know the one in your second and third picture.