Contribute your visions for London's rivers and influence London river policy in the future.

We will gather your visions and send them to the Mayor of London.

Click here to have your say

You can download this questionnaire, print it and bring it back at the exhibition or send it to Fluid, 100 De Beauvoir Road, London N1 4EN.

Matthew Caldwell

Too many to go into in any detail; they (the Thames, primarily, of course, but other waterways too, including the Fleet) have been a constant presence in my life for decades.
I remember walking along the Embankment at 3 o'clock in the morning, with the tide so high the river was only inches below my feet. I have found love and seen magic by these waters.

Punt from Kentish Town to the Thames, of course. Live, and love, and probably even, in the end, die.

The people that I love. And your earlier respondent Penelope Cloutte, whose stories trump mine.

A long-time fan of London's lost rivers, who lives virtually on top of the Fleet grille you folks have helpfully marked with blue :)

James Goold

I am a keen cyclist and have made several trips along the Regents Canal, Thames, Fleet & New River. Have started building a digital database of all three and publish on the web

A more permanent "trail" to show the Fleet RIver's course would be a great idea, in particular with the CTRL Dev in King's Cross/St Pancras, it is an opportunity to make a permanent Historical memorial taking in all the important places along the way

Along the way (St Pancras Church)

A marker in Hampstead Heath to show the source of the Fleet - happy to elaborate

Gary Evans

Playing in the Hogs Mill river as a youngster, wading along the stream and following the fish. Boating on the Thames in summer, away from the hot city and the dust. Feeling the warm breeze as the sailing boats slip past in the flickering light.

To live and work on the water, in contact and harmony with the natural environment as it flows through centre of London.

Along the River Thames from the tideway to the sea.

Those who care about life on the water and who want to live it.

Environmentalist and believer in our ability to make a difference.

Chris Constantine

Before it was opened, the jubilee line was called the Fleet Line but the name was changed due to the 1976 opening .Crossing the Woolwich Ferry as a kid. 20years later I treated my own kids to the same experience and ended up buying a house in North Woolwich!

Enjoy more access to the riverside. The Thames Path is on the south side and I live on the north bank.

From South end to Oxford shire

anyone

Nicolas laurent

My old neighbor tells me a lot about the one in the back of our courtyard but when I tried to follow its course I kept losing it. Sometimes I find its path again but it is always more clever and lose it again.

Enjoy the wildlife on its banks, and sink my feet in its clam mud on a hot sunny day-Ice skate into town in winter

At the back of my house and where ever it can take me

My family and friends

Fishing in 1983 with a friend caught a jam jar but on fish, bloody cold too!

Walk no fishing!

Lea Engfield

My family and friends

Diana Clements

I am too young for the Lost rivers but it is fun trying to find them. The Thames gives London its focus

Love the beach by the Thames. Beach + looking for the crabs

On the South Bank also enjoying the boat ride.

Anyone interested in joining me

A geologist with a particular interest into Lost Rivers. I would be interested in being involved with any future project. Also I would love to see your exhibition as a permanent feature about the Fleet but with a spy-hole to the Railway below.

Buenaventura Ranamante

My earliest memory, so far back it was so small it was that I suspect it was a surreptitious gift from a fanciful grin-who was pushing me over Putney bridge on a sunny lunchtime. I slipped off my shoes and slung them into the turgid flood down below. I never saw the shoes again and my effect haven't stop growing since.

I would build a hundred timber skiffs, each armed with a dozen cardboard cannons to fire confetti colored fish food from bank to bank. And watch the carp swim and the salmons. So many fish the Thames would bubble like it was boiling.

From Shadwell dock to nine mile reach and up again where the smog & heath are so thick that everything chokes. In the shallows, in the deeps. Against the current with the wind behind us. Sublime, Airborne and all places between.

Walter Raleigh Warren Mitchell Blake Paris Hilton Poseidon O'Brian Humphrey Bogart Bob Bowel Winston Rodney Don FranciscoDel Leon Gigganesh Wilkins Doctor Who Morissmey Chesty Morgan Uncle Monty Izaak Walton Penelope Pittstop Boris Johnson Sheik Yunomi Prince Assbinduh Children under 10 the Carlow tanners the humours of Whiskey Phillippa Gutbucket!

Laura Barrie

When I went on the London eye

Dive

Off a Bridge

Caspar my brother and Mum/Dad

Caspar Barrie

I went from the Tate to Westminster by boat on the river

To clear up the rubbish in the water

On the Thames

My dad and uncle

Becky

I remember standing over the river

Swim

In the middle

My dad and mum

Ann Boennec

Flooding of the river brent in 1976/or 77! First time I'd seen sandbags

Picnics, cycling, canoeing I would like to see more serious community services

From Twickenham right through to the east (the dome etc)

Neighbors, church, family, friends

Londoner, recently moved from the West to the South (Battersea) who enjoys cycling and conservation.

Margaret Sheehy

Apprentice barge race

Travel by barge along the fleet

The Fleet

Anyone who wants to come

Wilsor

Going to Greenwich on a ferry

Swim, sunbathe, sail.

My family

An Aussie

Olivier Boennec

I would like the rivers to be uncovered-Drink cafe and eat at restaurant terraces by the rivers

Battersea (Falcon Road)

Family, Friends

31 year old French, 9 year living in London new married to an Londoner. Work in abuilding engineering pratice.

Nicky

The best place to lose yourself on a hard day - walk the bridges

Sunbathe, Party, better access to the water , need some lovely bars

Anywhere so long it is pretty

Best friends

Dying to swim

Leon Yates

I remember fishing in the canal

I love watching the water + sitting beside it

By water bodies

Friends + the one I love !

A Urban Designer with a very Australian way of life.

Orlando Olivier

Fell off bike on a bridge on Thames

Live by the Thames/working by, Run a zodiac forum

By parliament

Architect to be...

Anne Wolfe

Changing from black dirty to a river where fish and other wildlife

More direct access and encouragement for more people to visit and understand its importance (past, present, future)

Young people

Architect to be...

Allan R.Suttie

More than often, filthy, deteriorating and with no structured future. Very Sad.

Jet Set are actively working to bring the river Waddle back to past glory. The world is watching us. Are you?

We are doing it already with the children and community of the waddle Valley, in spite of Local Borough Resistance -Croyondon especially.

The river flows through 4 London Boroughs, i.e. Wands worth - Merton - Corydon and Sutton Approx, 1000 000 population. David Bellany, Angela Rumbold and adam hart Davis are our President head of Trustees and History President

Alan Suttie Chief Exec Jet Set. Working successfully against many odds to rehabilitate the River Wandle (Someone Ken, you need to talk to!)

Roland Karthans

Walking to work

Swimming

The Fleet

Work colleague

DJW

Boat trip down to Kew on very sunny day

Catch fish, have beer in non-vile pub watch birds

Wherever

Nice woman if possible!

Antonio

Nice walks during a beautiful lighting during the summer!

By the embankment area

Ok by myself or friends

Architect to be...

Zainab

Wishing to swim in the Thames

In/by the Thames

my friends and family

Gary Miller

A large bloated leached white rat floating past me

Under tower bridge

The whole Krazee! Fluid Gang!

Abnormally tall with strange facial hair and a slighlty bent nose.

Richard Basset

The scale of the river in the city

On the beach in the Thames

Friends/Family

Eugenia Baldi

Thames

Friends

Antoine Buchet

Just stay for hours chatting in front of the Thames at South bank

On the Thames, South Bank I guess

Girlfriend, Friends

An other bloody Froggy in the city!

Julio Aredes

Watching Ducks doing their stuff

It would be good to do it in the Thames

Friends

Down to Earth, ambitious, friendly

Lorraine Tovey

Trying to sail in a small boat with tiny engine + having to paddle back when broke down crossing bridges everyday

Right in the centre of the city Near Black Friars

Anyone- preferably a strong swimmer

At present: Hot & Bothered!

Mari Motomura

Waterloo Sunset

South Bank

With Tetsu

Maja

Exchanged my first kiss on River Thames with my husband

South Bank, anywhere

People

Happy!

Steve McAdam

The London Eye, King's Bench Steps, Shad Thames and Old waves and wave houses before London Bridge City - the Thames as a place of change and great "reclaim the beach" event.

Any where I can get to - It is a great escape from known aspect of London to be on the rivers edge at low tide.

Friends, family and Christina

Kim Trogal

One day, there was a tube strike, so I took a boat from waterloo to Black Friars pier to get to work. It was lovely and sunny and the driver (or captain?) gave us a little history tour, like on sightseeing buses. Best journey to work ever! Did you know Waterloo Bridge is also called "Ladies Bridge" as it was built primarily by Ladies during WWI. Cool

Outside the Royal festival Hall in the Thames

Some People who could teach us to swim/dance in the water with swimming caps to funky musicÉeveryone joins in!

George

I walked pass river Thames with my family

By the river Thames or a clean river

Family, pets, Mum, Dad and sister

Kaaundra

I have been to the river Thames and it is quit alright. I saw a swan and duck swimming in it

At river Thames

Mum, sister or family

Christian

There were people in the river Thames in a boat and he had a net. Every time he pulled it out many fish

On the river Thames

My family and one of my friends

Pegah

I went on a boat trip on the Thames

The river Thames

Mum and my 3 sisters and my brother

Denise

I saw a dead duck in the river

The river Thames

My family

Pembe

Seeing it, I like the idea of watching water swish about

Near the Fleet

My family of course!

Emma

I went on a boat trip on the Thames

On the "tropical" beach on the Thames

My mates, family

Lucy Warrel

I've been on HMS Belfast. I was in a joined up design group witch included the Thames and water in every way

On the river

Classmates & family

Penelope Cloutte

So many - I have been a londoner for nerly 40 years, since coming here in my late teens. I have particularly fond memories of the stretch of the Thames outside the Festival Hall - this would be where I would first feel the freedom and excitement of being in London, and grown up, (as opposed to living in my parents' house in Haslemere, Surrey) as I emerged from Waterloo station and walked over the old Hungerford Bridge. My memories include -

* watching the new Hungerford Bridges being built, and walking over them for the first time. * working as a tourist guide in the early seventies, and having to learn all the bridges of London for the tour we called the "Banana boat tour". This outing involved a coach tour of the City and then a trip by launch down the river to Chelsea for a coach tour of the West end. The tour ran in the opposite direction on certain days, so we guides had to know the bridges, with their names, histories and associations, in order from East to West and from West to East. The tour was not popular with us, but the tourists loved it! I was called on to do it only once. The most challenging bit was when the boat passed under Waterloo bridge, with all the South Bank, Somerset House etc to tell the punters about. I was in full flow when a drunken tramp jumped off Waterloo Bridge right in front of us! Needless to say this was a great hit with the tourists. Our launch was low enough in the water for the body to be hooked out of the water straight into our boat when it floated to the surface. Fortunately the man was alive, and there was a doctor among our tourists. The police launched a boat immediately from their permanent station under the bridge and took him away to be dried and warmed. Our captain gave me lots of stories of similar incidents to regale my little flock with, so a great time was had by all, and I didn't have to test my memory of the rest of the bridges. I wonder if that police station is still there?

* Another memory is of the community musical, "Flo of the Fleet", sponsored by the GLC of blessed memory and performed at the Shaw theatre in January 1986. It told the history of the river Fleet, from open river to polluted sewer, with some wonderful magical theatrical imagery. Most impressive was a scene where the lost rivers of London - the Fleet, the Westbourne, the Wandle, the Beversbrook, and so on, were invoked by pubescent girls carrying candles and dressed in white. It sent shivers down my spine. I remember thinking - "Whoever devised this has invoked a powerful energy - but do they know what they are doing?" 6 months later a major watermain burst under the road just to the west of the Shaw theatre, flooding the car park in Euston station! Co-incidence?

Ever since seeing that production I have been interested in all the places where you can hear rushing water under the streets, even in dry weather. There are lots of them around Holborn. I have also got interested in thelost rivers and holy wells of our city.

*Do the Highgate ponds count as rivers? They are among the sources of the Fleet. I have so many happy memories of the Ladies' Pond, which is my idea of earthly paradise. A most beautiful, peaceful, women-only spot - guarded by dragons, as Paradise should be. What would summer be without it?

* Thames days - also innovated by the GLC of blessed memory. What fun to be allowed down to the foreshore, with my daughter who was then a child, and enjoy looking for treasures, to picnic and to watch the races etc. I am so glad that now the foreshore is more or less permanently open for these pleasures, but they used to be rare. And of course it was at one of those days that we marked the end of the GLC, with chorusses of "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner..." You must remember, Ken! *Shakespeare's Globe - and the ritual blessing of the theatre after the "Spearshaker talks" on St George's day/Shakespeare's birthday, when Mark Rylance leads a group of us down to the foreshore outside the Globe to gather cups of river water to splash about the theatre to bring luck and blessing for the coming season.

I should like to be able to swim between the Festival Hall and the Globe, without feeling that I was risking my health. It would be nice to have small pleasure boats on the Thames to mess about it, at low cost - rowboats, canoes, punts - from outside the Festival Hall or somewhere along that central stretch, without having to travel out to the West for that sort of thing.

And how about a Temple to the Goddess Isis, for whom the Thames is named? It could be on the North bank of the Thames, in the City, with an approach properly opened up down to the embankment so that worshippers could approach by water? (Well, we can dream.... ) There could be healing and meditation sessions for City workers in the lunchtime, so that pagans as well as Christians could have our spiritual needs met...

My friends and daughter.

I am an ageing feminist, counsellor and trainer of counsellors. I am a step-grandchild of the City, in that my father was educated by Christ's Hospital, the City charity school, and never got over it. I have loved London ever since I came here for the second time in the fifties, as a child. I love earth-based spiritual traditions, and am very involved both professionally and personally with bringing into free flow suppressed energies of body and spirit...