newspaper cutting
Object Detail
Object Name
document
Description
"Do Cleaner Rivers Mean the Swan Song of a British Ritual?"
Front page of newspaper (The Wall Street Journal, 22 July 1982) with article on the decline in swan numbers on the Thames, due to lead poisoning from fishing weights (as a result of increased fishing due to higher fish numbers in the cleaner Thames)
Front page of newspaper (The Wall Street Journal, 22 July 1982) with article on the decline in swan numbers on the Thames, due to lead poisoning from fishing weights (as a result of increased fishing due to higher fish numbers in the cleaner Thames)
Accession No
2010.27.44
Collection
River Thames
Associated Person
Associated Date
22 Jul 1982
Associated Period
20th century
Associated Event
Swan Upping
Date
1982