became a seaside resort for
Londoners, with beaches at
Putney, Tower Bridge,
Greenwich and Grays. When
the children’s beach at the
Tower of London opened in
1934 King George V declared
that children would ‘have this
tidal playground as their own
for ever’.
In 1957 the river was
declared biologically dead,
bombing during the Second
World War had damaged
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