LONDON HAS ITS BEACH.—It always surprises visitors to discover that London has a beach. True it is not a sea beach, but a river beach, yet it serves the same purpose. When the tide is out there is a Stretch of river beach just below the Tower of London where children paddle, and build sand castles whilst their elders loll in deck chairs. In hot weather the Tower Beach is the most popular resort with East End residents of the neighbourhood. Perhaps even more startling to the casual visitor is the pier an exact model of the normal seaside pier minus band-stand and pierrots, up the river at Chelsea. This is a relic of days when Thames steam boats plied regularly up and down London's waterway.

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1946, Page 7

LONDON HAS ITS BEACH.— It always surprises visitors to discover that London has a beach. True it is not a sea beach, but a river beach, yet it serves the same purpose. When the tide is out there is a Stretch of river beach just below the Tower of London where children paddle, and build sand castles whilst their elders loll in deck chairs. In hot weather the Tower Beach is the most popular resort with East End residents of the neighbourhood. Perhaps even more startling to the casual visitor is the pier an exact model of the normal seaside pier minus band-stand and pierrots, up the river at Chelsea. This is a relic of days when Thames steam boats plied regularly up and down London's waterway.