Downstream

strange to those who used the
beach before us. Now
banning swimming and
closing down old bathing
spots is seen as an easier
option than the effort required
to create safer places to swim.
COLAS have set up tables
on the grass on the other side
of the Thames Path, where I
meet Rose Baillie. ‘This
foreshore,’ she says with a
sweep of her hands, ‘was
always a place where children