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Brakspears also have a new range of walking trails from their pubs in and around Henley. Further information can be found on Pub Trails website. For more information please contact Peter Stone — petercstone99 aol. The network has expanded rapidly and there are now over locations across the UK that have joined this innovative community-led scheme to benefit from WaW accreditation.

Discover more at www. The River Thames is at its most elegant as it flows under the towns beautiful 18th century stone bridge. To enjoy it in all its glory with its stunning backdrop of Chiltern Hills and teeming bird life join one of the regular summer public cruises offered by Hobbs of Henley or Salters Steamers , or pilot yourself in a small motor or rowing boat from Hobbs or Hoopers boat yards. Acknowledged by The Times as one of the best 50 museums in the world and with lots to do for families, including an immersive Wind in the Willows experience much loved by children of all ages.

As an old market town Henley is blessed with a plethora of small, quirky and independent shops. Within 3 years, he'd taught himself lots about electricity and magnetism, optics, chemistry, mechanics and the laws of motion, as well as having become something of a handyman.

One of Henley's best customers was Mr J. Gassiot, Chairman of the London and Westminster Bank and a keen amateur scientist. Henley was the 'intelligent mechanic' whom Wheatstone recommended to William Henry Fox Talbot the Photography pioneer and with whom Henley worked for a while. Henley was now seeing his electrical apparatus business soar and soon moved to new premises in Whitechapel, taking on his first employee to help.

Now Henley had begun to manufacture electrical apparatus for a Chemist who owned a shop in East London and who also allowed him to display things in his shop window.

Business began to boom and although popular with his colleagues Henley wanted to be his own boss and so left the docks to pursue manufacturing full time. By now the year was probably Today, we live in a World that where we take Mobile Phones, Satellite Television and Electricity at the flick of a switch for granted. Wire covered with Silk and Cotton was increasingly in demand for electromagnetic apparatus and Henley in order to capitalise on the increasing demand converted his old lathe into a Wire Covering machine - this machine can still be seen today at the London Science Museum.

Despite the somewhat crude nature of this 'machine' it was actually a stroke of genius and contributed much to Henley's initial success. By the mid 's, substantial land telegraph links existed in many Countries and future growth depended to a large degree on linking the land networks by Submarine Telegraph Cable.

Thus, the scene was set for an explosion in the cable making industry. Henley set up as a submarine cable maker in and by ; he had his own factory beside the Thames at North Woolwich. He went on to manufacture the shore ends of the Trans-Atlantic cable in and generally helped lay the foundations of modern communication, as we know it today. The business, which we now know as WT Henley, was originally developed as the Engineering department for the then neighbouring Cable Company. This was where our early cable accessories were first developed.

Shopping is a popular pastime and there are Thames boat trips available. There are many Georgian frontages covering older buildings making Henley a quintessential English market town. Henley is on the bank of the River Thames to the west of London. As Henley is so close to London you could easily come for a day trip, or stay longer and see more of the beautiful countryside outside of the town.

I also had a tour of the winery and brewery too. And no trip to an affluent region would be complete without trying my favourite meal of the day so I had afternoon tea at Danesfield House Hotel. At just an hour on the train from London Paddington via Twyford you can breakfast in London and still spend a full day in Henley. And the standard of railway-side housing improved dramatically after we changed trains at Twyford.

While this downloadable street map makes Henley look quite large, the town centre is only a small section of the map.

This modern museum is popular with families during the school holidays, and probably throughout the year too, due to the permanent Wind in the Willows gallery.

Admission tickets are valid for a year so you have every excuse to come back again. You can see Olympics exhibits, the first ever boat used to win the Oxford Cambridge boat race, try rowing machines and even discover blazer history.