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109 reactions · 137 comments | We’re making progress on plans for a new reservoir in Oxfordshire, and we want to tell you all about them. Join us at one of our community information events that we’re hosting, where you’ll learn how we’ve used the feedback you’ve already given us to shape our work. | Thames Water | Facebook

1.6M views · 32K reactions | Remembering the music icon Freddie Mercury who was #bornonthisday in 1946. Sketch from a 1980 episode of the Kenny Everett show. #freddiemercury #kennyeverett #queen #thamestelevision #fremantlearchive | Thames TV Archive | Facebook

67K views · 1.1K reactions | Thames TV's 'TV Eye' looks at the appalling state of affairs eight months after Idi Amin was overthrown. This film catalogues a terrible tale of woe - murder and looting with no proper police force to control it, broken-down hospitals, flattened towns with no materials to rebuild them, and a ruinous black market and asks what the western aid givers are doing about it. | History of Uganda | Facebook

9.1K views · 163 reactions | To conclude Black History Month, the Thames TV documentary series This Week followed the build up to the Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazier fight in 1971 with interviews with the fighters, promotors and access to behind the scenes. Transmitted in 1971. | Thames TV Archive | Facebook

GPS is now ubiquitous in phones, cars, and smartwatches, a standard feature we take for granted. However, it was once a revolutionary technology, considered cutting-edge in the late 1980s and 1990s, when early in-car navigation systems first emerged. Credit: Thames TV Archive | History In Pictures