mile to go when the tide
turned and his friends
persuaded him to stop.
‘Unless a man can swim 3¼
miles an hour with the tide
for six successive hours,’
noted the paper, ‘he has no
chance.’
Jonathan wheels in a trolley
with three old books of
council minutes, as well as a
huge cardboard box of
photographs labelled
‘Greenwich beach, pier and
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