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for little ones’. King George V had been petitioned for permission to create the beach and, in a letter r ...
Children rushed down to the beach, where free ‘buns and chocolate and unlimited lemonade’ were set out on ...
estimated 70,000 children visited in the first year; in 1935 there were 100,000 children and adults. Most cam ...
public school boys would be taught to swim in the river at Eton and Westminster. The ladder was lowered for u ...
distributed, and a duty waterman was posted 30 yards downstream with a lifebuoy and pole grapnel to rescue ...
The quality of the water itself, however, didn’t seem to cause concern: ‘we today are very conscious of the hea ...
In 1936 deckchairs were introduced, as well as 200 cubic yards of ‘clean Essex sand’, which meant the beach ...
Children were rescued when they got into difficulties swimming in water that was 12 feet deep, and at ...
holidaying by the Thames, even within the City. In July 1946 it reopened with new ladders, taken from ...
a close call; the PLA had wanted to remove the sand, saying it interfered with shipping. There was also a sandc ...
of the summer season. ‘It was pure joy,’ remembers one visitor, ‘it was freedom, it was a day out, it was o ...
bombing of the Docks in the war. In the 1950s Tower Beach was very popular and was packed at weekends if the ...
sandwiches and bottles of pop’. Yet the beach never quite regained its former glory; the boatmen had gone although ...
safety fears, and it stayed shut as ‘an anti-terrorist measure’. Then in 1990 a committee was formed to campaig ...
Thames was probably at least as good as most British beaches, and better than some’. However, the plans wer ...
the Thames that we’ve found new ways to use the foreshore. ‘Londoners appear to have forgotten that they ha ...
Historic Royal Palaces, COLAS and Thames 21. The event began in July 1998, with access by Irongate Stairs, ...
during two hours or so of low tide, the only time of the year the public is allowed access. On the last wee ...
mudlarks were nineteenth- century children and adults who scavenged the banks of the Thames at low tide, looking ...
objects of historical and archaeological interest and are more likely to use metal detectors – but they are st ...
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