A lot of the houses around here seem to have either cherry or magnolia trees in their small front gardens.
Back at the riverside and this nice little drinking fountain.
This is now Strand-on-the -Green, with lots of 18th century houses lining the riverside.
The City Barge pub.
Note the doors below - designed to cater for flooding at high tide.
The house with the blue and whiteboards below is the Dutch House, named because of its Dutch Gables
This is Zoffany House, so named because the portrait painter Johann Zoffany lived here.
Prospect House
To the left below is Zachary House which is reputed to be where Bob Geldof and Midge Ure penned "Do they Know its Christmas?", Midge Ure once owning the house.
The Bell & Crown pub is one of several in London that can claim to go back centuries, although the actual building is much more recent. The pub was licensed in 1787, but this was rebuilt in 1907
The Steam Packet Pub - named after the steam launches that arrived at Kew Pier in the Victorian era
And finally, Kew Bridge
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