Downstream

just in time to see Henry
VIII’s magnificent palace,
originally built for Cardinal
Wolsey. There’s a glint of
gold at the grand Tudor gates
and further on, beneath the
turrets, a hand-painted sign
that reads ‘No Mooring’. In
the summer of 1718 three
gentlemen arrived here from
London on horseback and ‘it
being excellent hot they went
to bath themselves in the
River of Thames. And not