The Diver
The Diver is a sculpture by John Kaufman located in the River Thames at Rainham, east London. The Diver is made of galvanised steel bands on a steel frame and is 15 feet tall and approximately 6 feet wide and is partly submerged every high tide and totally submerged by spring tides.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: andrew j w, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Description: sculpture by John Kaufman
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Erith railway station and Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve.
Erith railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Erith station serves Erith in the London Borough of Bexley, southeast London. It is 14 miles 18 chains measured from London Charing Cross. The station stands between Belvedere and Slade Green on the North Kent line and is served by Greenwich line trains… Erith railway station is situated 1¼ miles south of The Diver.
Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rainham Marshes is an RSPB nature reserve in the east of London, adjacent to the Thames Estuary in Purfleet, Thurrock and the London Borough of Havering.
Parish Church of St John the Baptist
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parish Church of St John the Baptist is situated 1 mile southwest of The Diver.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Frog Island and Erith.
Frog Island
Locality
Frog Island is a peninsula on the north bank of the River Thames in Rainham, London at grid reference TQ515805. It is used for vehicle storage in Ferry Lane Industrial Estate and for the mechanical biological treatment works building of the East London Waste Authority.
Erith
Town
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Erith is an area in south-east London, England, 13.3 miles east of Charing Cross. Before the creation of Greater London in 1965, it was in the historical county of Kent.
Belvedere
Suburb
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belvedere is a town in south east London, England, within the London Borough of Bexley. It lies close to the River Thames, with Erith to the east, Bexleyheath to the south, and Abbey Wood and Thamesmead to the west.
The Diver
- Categories: sculpture and tourism
- Location: Havering, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.49742° or 51° 29′ 51″ northLongitude
0.18237° or 0° 10′ 57″ eastOpen location code
9F32F5WJ+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 519952302OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata ID
Q7730396
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