Downstream

waterman who knew every
inch of the Thames. But there
were difficulties, like the
wind in the lower Thames
before Gravesend. I was on
the big boat and a friend was
on a dinghy that was at the
mercy of the wind, it blew
him away from her and under
a pier. The tide was so fast he
was in danger of being swept
away.’ Alison also ‘fell over
a shopping trolley, she was in
the shallows because the tide