Downstream

the navigable part of the
river’. At 8 a.m. a tug called
Queen arrived on the scene
and its crew tried to moor on
to the bath. The Borough
Surveyor, with plenty of
assistants, stopped them. An
hour and a half later
conservancy officials arrived
and one of their
representatives, a Captain
Little, was allowed on to the
bath. There was then a
dispute over who was in