Thames 21 regularly hold clean up days along the Thames foreshore.
This spectacular sequence of photos shows the mammoth amount of effort volunteers put in, as well as the organising team, to clear up the phenomenal amount of rubbish.
To find out dates of further clean ups visit Thames21
- Gathering together for the start
- A marquee for the volunteers
- Supplies for the day
- Andrew
- Getting the gloves on
- Doug and Ruk
- Doug and Ruk
- Ruk showing off the extra strong rubber gloves and wellies
- A rare photo of the back of the BRAG T-shirt
- Lots Ait at low tide
- Setting off down Smith’s Steps
- The Thames bed with Lots Ait to the right
- A chain
- A crab
- Andrew and his bag of rubbish
- Andrew and Doug with Watermans balcony behind
- Andrew and Doug collecting timber
- Collecting bigger bits
- Filling up the skip
- The view from the middle of the waterbed
- Starting on the collection of ropes and cables
- Discovering canvases
- Bigger junk
- Supermarket trolley
- A dead flatflish
- Cables
- Untangling cables
- Pull…
- Muddy but happy
- It takes four to heave