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Astoria houseboat from Hurst Park. Astoria is a grand houseboat, built in 1911 for impresario Fred Karno [1] and adapted as a recording studio in the 1980s by its new owner, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. It is moored on the River Thames at Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Gilmour purchased the boat in 1986, because ...
A houseboat on Lake Union in Seattle, Washington, US Houseboat Cornelia in Ystad, Sweden, 2018. A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily for regular dwelling. Most houseboats are not motorized, as they are usually moored or kept stationary, fixed at a berth, and often tethered to land to provide utilities ...
The London County Council obtained the pier from the Thames Conservancy Board and repaired it in 1905. In 1996 it was bought by Cadogan Pier Limited from the Port of London Authority. [2] The pier was extended in 2004 to designs by Beckett Rankine. In 2010 a boat moored there was put up for sale for £1 million.
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It has appeared in numerous publication's lists of the best bookshops in the UK including The Washington Post and The Guardian. [1] [2] The bookshop's home is a Dutch canal boat called Dianti dating back to the 1920s. [3] As well as working as a bookshop, it regularly acts as a venue, hosting live music and poetry events.
The park area remained intact as a private estate until 1902 when the house and land went up for sale. [5] A group of local businessmen saved the park when it went up for auction and eventually the London County Council took over responsibility for the park and it opened to the public on 5 August 1905. [5]
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Isleworth (/ ˈ aɪ z əl w ər θ / ⓘ EYE-zəl-wərth) is a suburban town in the London Borough of Hounslow, West London, England. It lies immediately east of Hounslow and west of the River Thames and its tributary the River Crane .