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'The Changing Thames'
A poem by Ray Maynard, a former Thames lighterman. After an accident, Ray was confined to a wheelchair for 33 years and died in 1995.
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Ted Driscoll - living conditions.
Ted Driscoll recalls his childhood memories of living in a derelict block of flats and of always feeling cold.
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'Dirty Father Thames'.
A poem published in the satirical magazine 'Punch', describing how filthy the river Thames had become by 1848.
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