During the second week in December 1992 legions of lapwings again descended on the tideway. |
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These elegant northern birds are a Maytime feature on this stretch of tideway. |
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We were after roach and bream, and bream fishing has become excellent in the tideway in recent years. |
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However, there is still concern over the salmon stocks, which were in decline until 1987, when new by-laws were introduced to reduce illegal exploitation in the tideway. |
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In moving to the tideway course, there has also been fear that the female rowers will be seen as the warm-up act to the men's race, due to the prevailing weight of this old Oxbridge tradition. |
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Previous to their descent, I caught in all, not far from the tideway, about half-a-dozen finnocks, on two or three different occasions. |
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The dumping of raw sewage into the Thames was formerly only common in the City of London, making its tideway a harbour for many harmful bacteria. |
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An earlier highspot of the sporting calendar is the spring boat race between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, rowed up the turbulent waters of the tideway from Putney to Mortlake. |
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Owen added that rowing has made good headway in contrast to other sports, but that the change to the tideway in 2015 wouldn't be making much impact elsewhere anytime soon. |
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She is, however, realistic about the challenges ahead in their reception on the tideway and the need to now train for the 7km rather than the 2km distance raced at Henley. |
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That was enough to win the match as Tideway could not respond in the second half despite some close calls. |
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This book includes Tideway, a set of poems arising during a period spent with Thames watermen. |
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It was not deemed feasible to run bumps racing on the Tideway, so a timed format was adopted and soon caught on. |
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There is no absolute speed limit on most of the Tideway downstream of Wandsworth Bridge, although boats are not allowed to create undue wash. |
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The lower reaches of the river are called the Tideway, derived from its long tidal reach up to Teddington Lock. |
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