Downstream

me, was I was stuck at the
sewage works, which was
probably why I got ill.’
Lewis Pugh’s Thames swim
around a quarter of a century
later, to raise environmental
awareness, was rather
different. When he reached
the barrier he had no problem
getting through, but was
shocked at what he saw: ‘the
Thames Barrier is supposed
to save us from climate
change and a storm surge, but