Downstream

young man in shorts seems to
be towelling himself dry and
it suddenly strikes me that so
far no one is actually
swimming in any of these
pictures.
Another postcard of
Greenwich Beach shows the
same landscape – the beach,
the steps, the boats – only this
time it’s Edwardian, judging
by people’s clothes. There’s a
similar Edwardian bathing
scene at low tide in the pages