Not too surprising the London Boat Show is to be no more. It used to be a childhood highlight when it was at Earls Court. The Excel site, right by Royal Victoria Dock, seemed to offer such possibilities and should have been brimming with boats. But the show has not had vessels moored in the dock since 2013, when I took this picture of second-hand boats for sale, which was part of the exhibition, and attendance in January this year was thin. With the houseboats at Chelsea and the boatyards at Brentford and Greenland Dock threatened, and the hideous developments around Trinity Wharf, we can only conclude that London has treated its marine inheritance abysmally. The end of the Boat Show is just one more bit of London's culturural life to die.
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