absolutely filthy and full of
oil, we all had boils. It was
polluted, no doubt about it.
There was a lot of glass and
you cut your feet. The older
lads went to the Thames with
air guns to shoot the rats.
You’d see a cow going up
and then the tide changed and
you saw it come back again
. . . twice the size! You also
saw dogs, cats, trees, horses
. . . and boats chucked
everything, all the waste,