'In Sweet Thames Run Softly Robert Gibbings describes how in 1939
he saw a window of Blackwell's Bookshop in Broad Street, Oxford
full of books on the Thames. He was daunted by this as he was just
engaged in writing and illustrating his own lovely book. There were
histories of the river, and of the villages beside it. Bridges
spanning the river were the subject of several books, also the
natural history of it, besides how to fish and row. But there were
no books on crossing the Thames by ford and ferry before the advent
of bridges. Gibbings himself does not mention them, nor have any
been written since.'Joan Tucker's first history of the Thames
ferries covered the London reaches, from Staines to the sea. This
second book starts at the source in Gloucestershire and follows the
river down past Oxford and Windsor to complete the journey. The
richness of the documentary history from old deeds and Acts is
paralled by the stories and accounts of earlier travels. All the
sites have been visited and are described as they survive. The
author's earlier Ferries of Gloucestershire was the Railway &
Canal Historical Society's 'Road Transport Book of the Year' in
2010.
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