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Life Saving Society, had
started work on Greenwich
Beach on August bank
holiday to ‘prevent loss of
life’. As with Tower Beach,
children may have always
played here but by the 1930s
there was more emphasis on
safety. A bell tent had been
erected for guards to use in an
emergency and the ‘latest
apparatus in resuscitators’
was kept at Greenwich Pier.
The guards were drawn from