Downstream

based at Hays Wharf and at
one point employing more
than 200 men, with seven
tugs and 400 barges. As the
weeks progressed Daniel
learned the skills of a
waterman, using the natural
currents of the Thames. The
river then was ‘completely
different. There were so many
craft afloat, so many barges
that you could almost walk
across some of the docks by
stepping from one to