Downstream

the towpath on horseback
where bathers were ‘a great
nuisance’ during hay-making
time, running through the hay
and throwing it at each other.
When the boys were chased,
they ‘pitched into the Thames
and mixed with those who
had not trespassed,’ explained
W.S. Darter in his
Reminiscences of Reading
1888 . So Tanner decided to
have ‘several cartloads of
broken bottles’ thrown into