Downstream

place for the boys to swim.
There were lots of weeds and
an unpleasant beastly feel,
and it was rather dangerous,
two boys got polio so it
wasn’t done after that.’
Bamber moved to Richmond
about thirty years ago and one
day he saw Fred Hauptfuhrer,
London bureau chief for
People magazine, ‘who lives
in a magnificent house by the
river’, swimming. ‘The
Thames was still pretty dirty,’