Low tide at Strand-on-the-Green, before Oliver's Island and Kew Bridge

While Kew Bridge was replaced in 1903, the pipe tower in the distance still stands as the centre piece to the Kew Bridge Steam Museum. The Kew Bridge pumping station - originally opened in 1838 due to poor water quality - was still running right up to 1958, and still houses the world's largest working beam engine which (at over 40ft high) was described by Charles Dickens as a 'monster'.

Oliver's Island was named after Oliver Cromwell, who was said to have escaped to the island from the nearby Bull's Head pub.