[SunkenCiv]

Thames River foreshore at Putney at low tide, looking downstream

N. Arthur

[BenLurkin]

Moriarty is behind this Watson, it’s certain.

[Red Badger]

People have been drowning in rivers for eons.............

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Those Canada Geese sure get around. Are they fleeing the Trump Tariffs?

[Alas Babylon!]

People used to go to the beach on the bank of the Thames in London.

Tower Bridge Beach, circa 1930s.

Digging kids say, "Hey Mum, this looks like a skeleton!"

[wildcard_redneck]

Putting dead people into the very waters that you drink from is the height of stupidity.

[Ezekiel]

"There really was something significant going on in the Bronze and Iron Ages."

It was the best of Thames, it was the worst of Thames.

[Verginius Rufus]

So the Iron Age ended in Britain in A.D. 43? Very clever of Claudius to invade that year, knowing that the Brits wouldn’t have any iron for their weapons.

[Bon of Babble]

Drinking water certainly came from the Thames - before the origins of cholera were understood:

"John Snow used a dot map to illustrate the cluster of cholera cases around the pump. He also used statistics to illustrate the connection between the quality of the water source and cholera cases. He showed that homes supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company, which was taking water from sewage-polluted sections of the Thames, had a cholera rate fourteen times that of those supplied by Lambeth Waterworks Company, which obtained water from the upriver, cleaner Seething Wells. Snow's study was a major event in the history of public health and geography. It is regarded as the founding event of the science of epidemiology.

A replica of the pump without a handle stands outside the John Snow pub on Broadwick Street in Soho, London, commemorating Snow's discovery.