Our local port takes us along the Thames Estuary

This view of Gravesend shows a disused quayside railway station and the Pocahontas church.

In about an hour we had left our homes in a taxi, with our luggage, and arrived at Tilbury, a delightful small Thames port, where passengers from the Windrush disembarked for a new life in Britain, and the "Ten pound Poms" embarked to start a new life in Australia.
   Our embarkation was admirably quick and we started to explore our home on the ship for seven days, before Ambience left port, and we started on our voyage.
   For me, this was a major adventure. My left leg had been in plaster for nearly two weeks and in a moon boot for eight weeks. I was walking on crutches. It felt like a major achievement to have boarded the ship for a week.


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