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WALK – do not run. The beach is very rocky in parts – be careful how you move. There may be sharp obje ...
really be to go down to a beach? – but presumably an event like this can’t be run without them. Even ...
strange to those who used the beach before us. Now banning swimming and closing down old bathing spots is seen ...
played.’ She points behind to the green spire of All Hallows church, one of the oldest in the City of London, wh ...
found this.’ She pulls a small cannonball out of her pocket. Her father died recently and she seems to have ...
before the tide recedes and we’re allowed down. More mudlarks arrive, skilfully managing to join the front o ...
sharply if I have gloves and if so why I haven’t put them on. The stairs are steep and wet but I manage not t ...
the 1930s at the city’s Riviera, with deckchairs and sandcastle competitions, toffee apples and unlimited lemonade. ...
Today the old children’s beach at the Tower of London is open for two days a year. Children no longer swim, but it’s an opportun ...
Then I seea man wearing a bright yellow jacket and, assuming he’s a volunteer, I go up to ask for tips. ...
says Graham, ‘even after thirteen years.’ I ask him what people normally find: ‘clay tiles, pottery going ...
realise they are getting cut off at the steps, because they don’t want to leave.’ Graham says people particularly ...
home to the Royal Mint for 500 years until 1812. ‘There is a sense of the people who were up there,’ G ...
past, signs of industry and battle, even of England’s old place in the world. And now at last, after near ...
a Roman tile, you can tell by the ridge that it was an end- of-roof tile.’ So far all I’ve found is a cho ...
people scraping in the sand, kids filling up buckets with stones and bones. Volunteers have set up a table wi ...
the sixteenth or seventeenth century, and would have been used for cooking or storing food. By now my arms ...
one weekend a year, has been a great success, giving us free access to an area we want to explore. Oth ...
Artist Amy Sharrocks also has a dream for Tower Beach. She has been ‘making work about people and water’ for aro ...
London; it’s a conceptual art piece, a dream. I’m not doing it for charity. It’s an artwork. It’s crucial t ...
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