There are 45 non-tidal locks along the River Thames, including Henley's A trade union has said River Thames lock and weir keepers are set to be balloted for industrial action over safety concerns.

However, those washed down river "tend to pool at the great U-bend of the Isle of Dogs", said Boyd. "At this time of year, the Thames is very fast flowing, very wide and full of lots of snags ...

The average Londoner might be shocked to hear that, over the past two hundred years, hundreds of human bones have been discovered in the River Thames. As new research shows, a sizable portion of ...