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An occasional look at the ebb and flow of the Thames

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Month: December 2013

Is this Phil McCarthy? Standing to the right of this photo of the victorious Viola FC is the man known to the team as 'Captain Mac' . Pat Chimes (third from left in the middle row) wondered if this was Dinah Ballantyne's dad
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Search goes on for news of Home Guard member

19/12/201329/05/2015Mort SmithComment(0)

A couple of weeks back I wrote about Phil McCarthy, the father of a lady called Dinah Ballantyne, who was a member of the Home Guard given the responsibility for protecting Penton Hook Lock during the dark days of the Second World War.

Mort Smith and his brother, Alan, stand beside Terra Nova - are they all too old for another adventure?
Recent developments Terra Nova

Don’t bank on pontoons

12/12/201329/05/2015Mort SmithComment(0)

Sometimes people come up with brilliant ideas out of the blue – an innovative way of attacking a problem that suddenly reveals the obvious solution from a fog of uncertainty.

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To contact Mort, email him at mortsmith32@gmail.com or call him on 01787 226974. He’s always pleased to hear from old friends who provided such a wealth of information and great stories for Riverwatch.

These columns appeared in the Surrey Herald.

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