bombing of the Docks in the
war. In the 1950s Tower
Beach was very popular and
was packed at weekends if
the sun was out, or even if it
wasn’t.’ The Thames might
have been declared
biologically dead, but the
shore was still a social place
to meet for lunch and have a
singsong, and parents were
still taking their children
there in the late 1960s with
‘bucket and spade and
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