tidal playground for ever.’
Here families enjoy
‘London’s Riviera’ in 1952.The 1930s children’s beach
was the brainchild of the
Revd Phillip Thomas Byard
Clayton, explains Rose
Baillie, chair of the City of
London Archaeological
Society (COLAS), who has
written a booklet on its
history. Popularly known as
‘Tubby’, the Revd Clayton
was a man of ‘radiant