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Chloe Dewe Mathews
of glass towers – semi-occupied luxury flats. That is
a pretty huge change that I’ve noticed during the last
decade. It’s hard to know, given everything that has
happened over the past year, how the pandemic will
affect the city and, as a result, places outside the city,
because so many people seem to be leaving cities.
There was one photograph you weren’t able to
get for Thames Log, but there was a happy
ending. Can you tell us about that?
Yes, the extraordinary story of the Doves Type. It
was something I’d read about in a piece in one of
the Sunday supplements, talking about some lead
type that had been discovered in the Thames after
100 years lying on the river bed. [Following a fall-out
with the co-founder of his type foundry, Doves Press,
T J Cobden-Sanderson threw a ton of lead type
over Hammersmith Bridge in 1917.]
After reading about it, I immediately contacted
Robert Green, the type historian and graphic
designer who had discovered a few pieces of the type
and had commissioned divers to go and find more. ©^
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