Downstream

of a guide to Greenwich,
issued by the council in the
mid-1920s, and now there are
two naked boys in the
foreground who appear to be
getting dressed after a swim.
The beach ‘is at the eastern
end of the Pier’, a long stretch
of ‘shingle which at low tide
and, of course at the proper
season, affords facilities for
bathing, paddling, etc., of
which the juvenile population
eagerly avail themselves’.