Downstream

sit on the stone steps; children
and dogs play on the sand.
The background is heavily
industrial, full of building and
boats, for the southern side of
the Thames from Rotherhithe
to Woolwich had long been a
place of shipbuilding,
although the naval dockyards
at Deptford and Woolwich
had closed in 1869. Postcards
were produced of the beach;
one also appears to be from
the 1920s, in the foreground a