Friday Island, River Thames

Friday Island is an island in the River Thames in England at Old Windsor, Berkshire. It is on the reach above Bell Weir Lock, just short of Old Windsor Lock.

Friday Island from Old Windsor Lock
Map showing the location of Friday Island within Berkshire.

Secluded

The small island, whose shape is said to resemble the footprint of Man Friday in Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, contains a two-bedroom cottage with a well, almost hidden by willow trees.[1] For thirty years this was the home of Dr Julius Grant, the forensic scientist, from 1966 until his death in 1991. He was noted, among other detection, for proving in 1984 that the Hitler Diaries published in the Sunday Times were forgeries, despite an endorsement of their authenticity from the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper.[2] The lock keeper recalled Dr Grant saying that when he went to the island, he felt it was like going a million miles away. It was like owning half of Australia, it was so secluded.[3]

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gollark: After several hours training on Google GPUs that they let random people use for some reason, the model generates grammatically correct but nonsensical sentences.
gollark: It's very easy because someone else already did basically all the work and I just had to write a script to dump my Discord data package into a CSV file with pings and DMs scrubbed out.

See also

References
  1. Leigh Hatts: The Thames Path Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  2. Christopher Winn: I Never Knew That about the Thames (London: Ebury Press, 2010), p. 128.
  3. Paul Goldsack River Thames: In the footsteps of the famous English Heritage/Bradt 2003
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