Downstream

(Jeff_L) #1

150 deaths in the Thames that
year, four times the number
there are today: 25 were
suicides, 79 were accidentally
drowned, 4 were from
accidents. In the remaining
forty-two cases it wasn’t clear
how the person came to be in
the river and they were
therefore classed as ‘found
drowned’.
As I leave Battersea Bridge
and walk right along the river
I pass a series of moored

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