Phoenix Assurance Company Limited insurance policy for one boatman and one man filling balloons, £1 1s 6d. Dated 22nd July 1925. Associated with Sonning Regatta.
Receipt from Mr Witchels [sic] for policies from Pheonix Assurance Company Limited, totalling £4 1s 6d. Dated 22nd July 1925. Associated with Sonning Regatta.
An annotated photocopy of a blueprint relating to engineering works of the Thames Barrier - '61m Rising Sector Gate Cylinder + Cylinder Details'. The photocopy is annotated in red.
"Do Cleaner Rivers Mean the Swan Song of a British Ritual?"
Front page of newspaper (The Wall Street Journal, 22 July 1982) with article on the decline in swan numbers on the Thames, due to lead poisoning from fishing weights (as a result of increased fishing due to higher fish numbers in the cleaner Thames)
"Where swans and tourists don't mix"
Newspaper cutting (The Guardian, 22 April 1980) with article on swan numbers on the River Thames being affected by the increase in tourism, including interview with Capt. John Turk, Queen's Swankeeper.
"Ascot 'curtain' of carnival afloat"
Photocopy of newspaper cutting (Sunday Pictorial, 22 June 1924) with article on the expected boating parties on the Thames after Ascot weekend. Includes comment from Mr. Richard Turk, of Turk's Boatyard at Kingston.