Downstream

doesn’t feel too cold; I’d like
to get in and swim. The only
thing that puts me off, aside
from not having a costume, is
what might be underfoot after
all the stories I’ve read of
children getting injured.
Apart from this beach and
the one at the Tower, there
was another beach on the
Thames, some twenty miles
downstream in the town of
Grays. It officially opened far
earlier, in July 1906, with