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played.’ She points behind to
the green spire of All Hallows
church, one of the oldest in
the City of London, where
Revd ‘Tubby’ used to preach.
‘He saw kiddies nearly
drown,’ she says, ‘but instead
of saying “let’s ban it”, he
said “let’s make it safer”.’
And he did. I rejoin the queue
and chat with a woman from
Yorkshire. ‘My dad worked
here in the sixties for a
construction company and he