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Boxing Day Walk<\/strong>: Most years this century we have walked from Staines to Old Windsor for a family lunch, at first at my sister’s house, but more recently at a pub in Old Windsor where we have been joined by other members of the family. We are hoping to do the same today, though perhaps we might need to take a bus, a few of which are rumoured to be running, though I think likely to be cancelled at zero notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Swanmaster statue had been moved earlier in 2014 to the riverside garden in Staines<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s not a great distance, though in earlier years we often added a few miles to the more direct five or so to develop more of an appetite, and sometimes we had too when the path beside the River Thames was flooded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Offices on a small riverside dock on the Surrey bank in Staines<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On My London Diary you can read more about some of these walks, and in particular about our walk on Friday 26th December 2014<\/a>, ten years ago, when I wrote about it in rather more detail than usual. Here I’ll just post a few of the pictures from that walk with some captions, mainly those I wrote back in 2014. The pictures follow the order of our walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The annual Boxing Day Challenge (if river flow allows) between Staines Boat Club and Burway Rowing Club<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The more recent of the two bridges taking the M25 and A30 Staines Bypass across the river<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A floating crane moored by the weir at Bell Weir Lock in water undisturbed by boats<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The 1910 water intake to the Staines aqueduct takes water to reservoirs and treatment works.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rosehearty has been moored here for years. The name is a town on the Moray Firth.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dock at Bell Weir Boats in Runnymede<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Houses on The Island in Wraysbury – many here were flooded in February 2014<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Thames at Runnymede, where we crazily swum in the buff when young after an evening in the Angler’s Rest Hotel. Then there was a diving board here too.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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R G Bargee – most boat owners seem unable to resist a pun. We were almost there.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another family at our destination.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Boxing Day Walk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flickr<\/a> – Facebook<\/a> – My London Diary<\/a> – Hull Photos<\/a> – Lea Valley<\/a> – Paris<\/a>
London’s Industrial Heritage<\/a> – London Photos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All photographs on this page are copyright \u00a9 Peter Marshall.
Contact me to buy prints or licence to reproduce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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