The photographs in this section of the website were taken as a single exercise in the summers of 1976 and 1977. The objective was to capture on film all surface road, railway and footbridge crossings of the River.

Only bridges that crossed the full width of the River were included; those only providing access to islands were omitted. There were a few anomalies at cuts and locks where only the navigable sections were included. Some bridges provided a challenge to find an acceptable vantage point and so some views were taken looking upstream and some downstream. It should be noted that several additional crossings have been built since this expedition.

At the London end, photography commenced early in the morning to avoid as much road traffic as possible. As such the lighting was not ideal for the slow, high definition Kodachrome 25 (ISO25) transparency film used throughout. Kodachrome was a processing pre-paid colour film that had to go back to Kodak for developing and mounting. Unfortunately, at the western end Kodak ruined one roll and duplicates were made from similar images shot at the same time by a friend. Inevitably those lost some quality.

Film photography did not offer the instant review we now enjoy from digital cameras and, as such, where some results were deemed unsatisfactory they were re-taken at a later date, a very few in 1978. Dates are appended to each photograph.

The photographs have been arranged travelling upstream from Tower Bridge to the source in Gloucestershire.