APPENDIX 6: EEL PIE CENTRE DISPLAYS
Local History – the river and
environment in this area
Water
circulation
Conversion of energy
Conservation of water and energy
Conservation
Policy
Wildlife
The living Thames -- history
Other
Displays
APPENDIX 6: EEL PIE CENTRE DISPLAYS
Many displays could be interactive,
and all are educational and fun.
Local History – the river and
environment in this area
- Historic buildings and
landscape; the purchase of Marble Hill, gift of Glover’s
Island (and loss of Cambridge Park) – a lesson in
public works
- Railways and the spread of
housing
- The growth of water leisure,
regattas, Venetian fêtes, listening to the band, Eel Pie
Hotel, the Stones, Phil Collins, Robert Wyatt
- Rowing, and how (and how not)
to do it
- audio and video with
authentic voices and reconstructions.
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Water
circulation
- Working models to show cycle
of rainfall – drinking water – Mogden sewage
works – diseases in water – keeping the river
clean. Practical work using microscopes.
- Flooding – effect of
building on floodplain – London sinking –
global warming – the Thames Barrier – the story
of Richmond Lock – Teddington Lock – purpose of
locks
- Tides – interactive
computer model to show moon, sun and equinoctial effects
– relating this to the tides at Twickenham,
demonstrations of flooding.
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Conversion
of energy
- Water mills, tidal barriers,
wave machines to generate electricity – energy in
Teddington weir (live video link) – solar energy
– water as heat store – effect on climate.
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Conservation of water and energy
- Importance of water
conservation/energy conservation – how this building
conserves energy/water – transparent and visible
systems or working models.
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Conservation
Policy
- Thames Landscape Strategy,
SSSIs, conservation areas, Thames Policy Area, etc.
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Wildlife
- Identification of birds, fish,
etc – different breeding and social habits of geese,
coots, swans, grebes, herons, mallards. Possible direct
video link – e.g. camera in bat box or hide.
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The living Thames -- history
- The ice age – compare
Twickenham then with now. Survivalist showing life as
hunter-gatherer
- The English Channel,
chronological settlement along the Thames, rain gauge,
tidal themes
- Transport – fords,
bridges, place names – going back in time
- River industry – moving
goods, canal barges, fishing (conflicts)
- Future – London sinking,
flood defences, Twickenham 100 years on
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Other
Displays
- By the Thames Landscape
Strategy – its origins, purpose, and subject matter;
current projects and meetings
- By local groups and societies
– sports and rowing clubs, amenity groups, local
history groups
- By national and regional
bodies – the National Trust, Historic Royal Palaces,
Thames Water, and other major riverside property owners
- By river-related
organisations – River Thames Society, London Rivers
Association, Watermen’s Company, the Great River
Race
- By local river businesses
– for job and training opportunities; for
advertising their products
- By the Council – to show
local issues, consultations, visitor attractions;
planning applications on issues relating to the river.
- By the Thames Landscape
Strategy partners: English heritage, the Environment
Agency, English Nature, etc, of their own work and
properties in the area.
- Possible sponsored displays
by companies – to be explored.
For research projects, the centre
could hold a database for river-related issues of history,
archaeology, wildlife, containing relevant information for
specialist organisations and academic courses useable at several
levels, for school projects, residents and degree level research.
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