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Just beyond is Hammersmith Bridge, built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette in 1887 to replace the first suspension bridge over the Thames, erected some 60 years earlier.Bazalgette's bridge is being repaired and repainted and the towpath beyond it is badly churned in parts by construction lorries. On your left is a bright display of daffodils in front of flats, soon giving way to St Paul's School. On the opposite bank are the backs of Hammersmith's pleasant riverside pubs and beyond them Chiswick Eyot, a boat race landmark,whose weeping willows are just starting to yellow.Big barges and other river boats are moored at Church Wharf, beyond the Eyot. It is placed exactly a mile from the start of the University Boat Race.An overgrown and long-abandoned wharf stands in front of the depository, left over from the days when furniture would arrive there by water.

Where the metalled road runs out keep on the wide towpath, fringed with poplars, with the tall floodlights of Fulham football ground prominent across the river. After about 15 minutes, as the Harrods Furniture Depository looms ahead, you come to a memorial to Steve Fairbairn (1862-1938), "oarsman and coach", who founded the Head of the River Race. for boat race weekend, here is a walk that follows the Surrey side of the infamous first bend in the river, then cuts back through the pretty village of Barnes. From the south side of Putney Bridge, walk north-west along the Embankment, passing the boathouses that are a hive of activity not just on Boat Race day but on almost any day at this time of the year, as sculling crews of varying sizes and abilities throng the river. If she won't fetch eight quid, though, you can catch the godlike Frischmann and her mates on tomorrow night's The White Room (10pm C4), because Fate is bounteous 6 Apr, Shepherd's Bush Empire, W12 (081-740 7474).