Cross from Wandsworth into Lambeth and, staying on the south bank, make a short detour into Lambeth Palace, the London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Here, you’ll find Mother and Child by Lesley Pover. You may also find some geese. When making the original clay version of the sculpture, Pover found herself remaking the toes every morning, after the geese snacked on them during the night. We hope your toes won’t come under similar threat.

Back onto the north bank, and the next sculpture on our tour is a bit less innocent than a mother and child. Victoria Embankment in the borough of Westminster is home to a numerous sculptures commemorating various wars and the men or regiments that fought in them. One of these is to Major-General Charles George Gordon, maybe better known as Gordon of Khartoum and a prominent figure in British imperial history.

The tight curves of the river around the Isle of Dogs lead us on to our final few boroughs, starting with Lewisham. Deptford in Lewisham was where the Golden Hind – the ship in which Sir Frances Drake sailed around the world and which this sculpture commemorates – was exhibited after Drake’s return. Although described at the time (and often remembered since) as a voyage of discovery, it was essentially conceived as a long-range raiding party targeting Spanish colonies on the western coasts of the Americas. Nonetheless, Drake’s achievement in circumnavigating the globe remains a remarkable one.