When the Thames was a working river nu 3

It is just one of those simple things that as you get older there are more and more things you can use as a bench mark marking the passage of time.

And this is one of them for while the painting dates from 1913 I can still remember the river as a working highway where all manner of ships and boats plied their business.

As a child in the 1950s crossing London Bridge there was plenty to see from the cranes and warehouses to tramps steamers and lightermen.

Picture; River Thames from Tower Bridge, 1913, from the series LONDON SERIES 1 Tuck and Sons, courtesy of Tuck DB, https://tuckdb.org/