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Author archives: Patricia Stoughton

Cargoes

Gone are the boom days of the early 1960s when the section of the tidal Thames upstream from Tower Bridge to Teddington lock used to be crowded with boats delivering all kinds of cargo. Vic Clarke remembers “The dry cargo tramp steamers tied up daily had to be seen to be believed, all unloaded and …

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Posted byPatricia Stoughton24th January 202127th March 2021Posted inEbb & Flow

Cleaning the river

Since the much quoted judgement by the Natural History Museum in 1957 that the Thames was “biologically dead” and incapable of supporting life, a lot has happened. The first changes began soon after that as a result of much discussion and soul-searching. In a long, wordy, and complex debate in the House of Lords on …

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Posted byPatricia Stoughton10th January 20219th January 2021Posted inEbb & Flow

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