English: A multi-segment panoramic image of the London skyline from the Bermondsey banks of The River Thames, in which Tower Bridge and 30 St Mary Axe are visible.
Čeština: Podvečerní panorama Londýna.
Français: Image panoramique de Londres
depuis les rives de la Tamise.
Photo: 18 February 2008.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Author: Diliff
(Wikimedia Commons)
“Sweet Thames Flow Softly”.
Sung by: Maddy Prior and The Girls.
Available on YouTube
Deutsch: Maddy Prior als Sängerin von Steeleye Span
bei der Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2016.
Photo: 12 August 2016.
Source: flickr
Author: Rob Glover
(Wikimedia Commons)
The River Thames, London. The London Eye and its pier
to the left, the PS Tattershall Castle to the right. In the centre, upstream, Westminster Bridge and Big Ben.
Photo: 1 June 2009.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Author: Diliff
(Wikimedia Commons)
“Boating on the Thames”.
Artist: John Lavery (1856–1941).
Date: 1890.
Source/Photographer: The Athenaeum
(Wikimedia Commons)
Madelaine Edith Prior MBE (born 14 August 1947)
is an English folk rock singer, best known as the
lead vocalist of Steeleye Span.[1]
She was born in Blackpool and moved to St Albans in her teens. Her father, Allan Prior, was co-creator of the police drama Z-Cars. She was married to Steeleye bass guitarist Rick Kemp, and their daughter, Rose Kemp, is also a singer. Their son, Alex Kemp, is, like his father, a guitarist and has deputised for his father, playing bass guitar for Steeleye Span.
This File: 27 July 2005.
Source: Own work.
Author: Zxb
(Wikimedia Commons)
She was part of the singing duo “Mac & Maddy” with Mac MacLeod. She then performed with Tim Hart and recorded two albums with him, before they helped to found the group Steeleye Span, in 1969.
She left Steeleye Span in 1997, but returned in 2002, and has toured with them since. With June Tabor, she was the singing duo Silly Sisters. She toured with the Carnival Band, in 2007, and with Giles Lewin and Hannah James, in 2012 and 2013. She has released singles and albums as a solo artist, with these bands and in several collaborations.
She runs an Arts Centre called Stones Barn, in Bewcastle,
in Cumbria, which offers residential courses.
The new Lambeth Bridge on The River Thames
in the early 1930s.
Illustration: FLICKR/Leonard Bentley
