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of a large carrying capacity, as well as a wide staircase at each end. There is also a bigger tunnel for vehicular traffic, with a narrow foot path, and a ferry on the river as well.
The wharves are on the pontoon principle and one can see where with the recent flooded state it had been over fifteen feet higher than it then was at high tide.
I had a look at a church which had suffered in a raid, but the whole of the end wall had been rebuilt in a day, as also a whole house rebuilt in a few days. Men are always at work doing repairs work, on the morning after a raid
All over the commons around Woolwich are small cottages for the munition workers looking just like a big camp, and also the Garden City, a little town on the principle of Bournville or Port Sunlight.
I left the house at about 10.30