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causes as well’.
On 23 July 1934 the beach
was officially opened with a
grand ceremony attended by
the Lord Mayor, the Bishop
of London and Lord
Wakefield. ‘Now,’ declared
the Fund in a report entitled
‘The Great Goal’, ‘on this
very spot where, in the
Middle Ages the penalty for
trespass was also death for
man, woman or child’ there
would be ‘a safe playground