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...after a two-year restoration, more than 250,000 people turned up to celebrate the rebirth of a British icon. The spring cleaning of the RFH, the postwar centerpiece of the 1951 Festival of Britain, represents the final piece of the puzzle in establishing the south bank of the Thames???from the London Eye big wheel down to the Design Museum at Shad Thames???as one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in the capital. Multiple bridges make it accessible to more than 15 million Londoners and visitors, and the Southbank Centre boasts 10 restaurants on its 21-acre (8 hectare...
...spawn in the now pristine waters. The prize was solemnly taken to the Natural History Museum, which declared it a genuine dead salmon, and scientists from the Ministry of Agriculture dutifully lent their own support to the finding. The discovery of the salmon?and its encouraging implications for the Thames???was announced recently at a huge press conference...
When F. V. Morley, brother of thunderer upon the left Christopher Morley, set sail with two friends down the Thames??? in their converted ship's lifeboat Wife of Bath he naturally found many such bits of rare Anglicana as the Martyr's epitaph above. Young Morley, like his columnist-novelist brother, is one of those for whom any river will wimple with apt allusion. Half the poets of England creep into Mr. Morley's book, a pat line or stanza from each. And he can himself do such sure telling bits as: "The first lock, by Inglesham Round House, holds...
...RIVER THAMES???F. V. Morley-Harper...
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