who is educational officer at
the City of Westminster
Archives. Daniel’s family
worked on the Thames in one
form or another for many
generations. ‘We loved
everything about the river . . .
it was our playground, our
life.’ In 1953, at the age of
fifteen, Daniel left school and
got a job on a Thames sludge
boat; he was then apprenticed
as a Thames lighterman with
Humphrey and Grey Ltd,
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