WATERMAN’S LIFE
FIFTY YEARS ON RIVER. LONDON. February 11. One of the best-known figures on the Lower Thames is . Mr. Herbert Fothergill, who will soon be celebrating 50 years as Gravesend’s river postman. Mr. Fothergill, who is over 70, has worked on the Thames for nearly 60 years. His family have been connected with it for over a century, and he has two sons who are Gravesend watermen. His father was a river pilot , for nearly 50 years, and bis uncle also a. pilot. As it was necessary to work with the tide. Mr. Fothergill and his fellow employees were sometimes on duty all night. They had a i’ttle room where; they rested ami played games until al ship was sighted coming up the river. I “Then." said Mr Fotregill. “we had to' go out in a. four-oared rowing boat to] deliver d< ek letters. In very bad weather wo were often nearly dead-1 heal, by tlie time we reached the ship; with the letters, and. having delivered! them, we bad tl;e task of rowinvi back." |
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1937, Page 10
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