Wednesday 23 July 2003 1.51pm
T.L.M.J.Jo
make you right there gel! the river is increasingly off limits to us peasants....as a child I used to lay in bed listening to the sounds of the river..foghorns etc., my childhood playground was Bankside and jumping on and off the barges as they bobbed up and down in the tide did not scare my witless then! God smiled on all us kids I think, especially when you hear the noise when the barges collide....
At New Cross near the Marquis of Granby you could look down and see all the docks...
A river without barges, boats, ships, sailing vessels is like a pub without beer.....or rather darling a Conran property without a little woman 'who does'
jan