Downstream

in, she ran down the bank, got
stuck in the mud and couldn’t
move.
In the early twentieth
century, with the closure of
the canal, trade through the
town dried up and Lechlade
soon became a popular place
for retirement. The
broadcaster Piers Plowright
used to come here in the
1940s, after the war, for
family holidays: ‘It was
where I played and imagined