Chuck

And it was also a time when the Thames was shallower and was it narrower or wider?

Wider, wider and shallower.

Wider and shallower.

So all of this sort of added up to because of a strange weather phenomenon that Josh is going to describe a time when the Thames would actually freeze over.

That's right.

And that happened in 1564 when it froze over and people in London were like, hey, that's pretty cool.

Let's go out and get drunk and walk around and play on that thing.

She packed up her corgis and slipped around on the ice for a little while.

It froze again in 1607-08.

And this time they were like, hey, blimey, this thing's frozen again.

Let's get drunk and sell some things.

Oh, man.

Or Frozen Friar or whatever the heck.

Yeah, I mean, that was a couple of months of frozen Thames.

And this time it was like a real, like a Christmas market, basically.

Everybody is selling their wares.

Like you said, people that normally sold stuff on the side of the river were all set up down there.

They had so many rows of booths that they formed a literal avenue down the middle of the Thames.

And you could do everything.

You could have a sit-down restaurant meal under a huge tent down,