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Description: | This photograph shows a part of the process of Swan Upping. Swan Upping is an annual census of the swan population of the Thames, from Windsor to Abingdon. Legally all swans belong to the Crown, although by ancient custom, the Worshipful Company of Vintners and the Worshipful Company of Dyers are allowed to share in this ownership. During the ceremony, the Queen's (or King's) Swan Marker and the Vintners' and Dyers' Swan Uppers travel upstream from Windsor to Abingdon by boat, marking swans if they are owned by the Companies, or leaving them unmarked if they are owned by the Crown. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | London and Middlesex Archaeological Society | Subjects: | Power and Politics | Temporal: | c1920 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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