Is this what we want? I’ve nothing against watermen, but isn’t Bugsby’s Reach a curious, quaint and harmless survival that we should try to keep in an increasingly dull and grey age, and at a time when we’re slowly losing ancient sea marks?
Have your say on the PLA’s consultation.
leave it be !
That’s what I think. Instead, why not give the watermen a nice sculptural monument with some educational stuff explaining who they are, give them another celebratory event, lets have them re-enacting working as ferrymen, or singing songs about ferrying (there’s at least one I know of).
It will always be Bugsby’s as far as I’m concerned.
Doesn’t this just typify the age we live in? Another little bit of old England vanishes for no good reason!