By 1905 when the book of their journey from Westminster to the Nore was published Marion, Mrs Wyllie, explains how Erith, the once quiet village “in the midst of green fields and gardens” had been transformed, and that “No-one in the present day would call Erith pretty or rural.” She goes on to explain why: …
Author archives: Patricia Stoughton
Thames
John Challis the Thames turns inwardly to find a space… and burrows through the mud and claywhere every London intersects, to get its nose beneath the grave, … Anglo-Saxon ornaments,unexploded payloads, bone dice and oyster shells,wedding rings and number plates, and all thoseyou might have been had your time started early: gong farmers and costermongers, …