Downstream

waterway it used to be.’ He
compares the estuary to
places like the Maldives,
‘which is seen as paradise,
but while one side is, on the
other they dump their
sewage’. As for the tradition
of swimming, he points out of
a row of small, partly frosted
windows in the direction of
the Westcliff-on-Sea casino:
‘there used to be swimming
baths there, there was an inlet
that was tidal-fed, and people