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place for those who couldn’t
afford to get to seaside
resorts. Children went
beachcombing, collecting
pieces of chalk and selling
them, while families spread
out on the sand to have tea.
I’ve also been told by Dr
Pieter van der Merwe,
General Editor and
Greenwich Curator at the
National Maritime Museum,
that in the hot summer of
1933, in the depths of the