Left – the flotilla moored at Limehouse [by Simon Judge].  Below – Junior members of Strawberry Island Boat Club [by Linda Neech]

Photos on the main way to the Palace of Westminster, and returning afterwards.

Left – Approaching Blackfriars Bridge [by Simon Judge].  Below – Through the Thames Barrier, on 6th May [by Hazel Owen]

Left – Approaching Tower Bridge [by Simon Judge].  Below – Fuel boats Tadworth and Bordesley near the London Eye [by Mel Hyde]

[Both photos by Simon Judge]

Left  and below – boats outside the Palace of Westminster [by Frances Phasey and Rachel Eglinton respectively]

[Photos by Simon Judge – left – and Rachel Eglinton – below]

Left – Uma Kumaran MP and guests on the terrace of the Palace of Westminster [photo by Uma Kumaran MP’s assistant].  Left to Right: Ros Daniels (Canal & River Trust Regional Director London & South East), Mike Wills (IWA National Chair and Chair of FBW), Uma Kumaran (MP for Stratford and Bow and Waterways All Party Parliamentary Group for the Waterways Co-Chair), Mel Hide (Royal Yachting Association Director of External Affairs), Sue O’Hare (IWA Deputy Chair and Member of FBW Steering Group), Richard Parry (Canal & River Trust CEO).  Below – Mark Garnier MP, on the terrace [by Sue O’Hare].

Left – MPs on the terrace [by Simon Judge].  The parliamentarians who turned out on the day were:

• Uma Kumaran MP (Labour, Stratford and Bow)
• Stuart Andrew MP (Conservative, Daventry and Shadow Secretary of State, DCMS)
• Aphra Brandreth MP (Conservative, Chester South and Eddisbury)
• Mary Creagh MP (Labour, Coventry East and Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Defra)
• Mark Garnier MP (Conservative, Wyre Forest and Shadow Economic Secretary, Treasury)
• Nigel Huddleston MP (Conservative, Droitwich and Evesham and Co-Chair, Conservative Party)
• Rachael Maskell MP (Labour, York Central)
• Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green)
• Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Conservative)

Here is a video link of boats stationary outside the Palace of Westminster with horns blaring.

Left – bridge marshals [by Liz Rayner].  Below – photo from the Thames [by Simon Judge]

[Photos by Simon Judge]