Downstream

grassy banks, although now
it’s snowing so hard I can
barely see a thing. Back in the
1890s this was the busiest
lock on the Thames where
visitors couldn’t even see the
water for all the ‘bright
blazers, and gay caps, and
saucy hats, and many-
coloured parasols’. On a fine
Sunday, ‘all the inhabitants of
Hampton and Molesey ‘dress
themselves up in boating
costume,’ wrote Jerome K.