Downstream
Members of Oxford University’s 1936 water polo team dive in at Parson’s Pleasure on the River Cherwell, one of Oxford’s most fam ...
If ever there was a city famous for its enjoyment of river swimming it’s Oxford, from skinny dipping dons ...
along the city’s waterways, most have been closed down since the 1990s, leaving only remnants behind. The mos ...
the 1970s. ‘I remember having to sink low in a punt, hat over face,’ recalls Heather Armitage, Tourism Officer a ...
children were given their own area on the Cherwell, with the opening of Dames’ Delight. But bathers had to ...
bathing place. ‘A lady told me the elderly lifeguard was a friend at Long Bridges and he used to pour a ke ...
which traces its history back to the nineteenth century. It’s no wonder then that many adults in Oxford spent ...
the passing of the River Bathing Places that gave us such simple pleasures for so many years, and helped us ...
matches at Oxford’. The races were divided into five heats of four competitors, and the banks and towpath ...
organised river racing than those at Lechlade, the impetus for learning to swim, at least among university st ...
some drowned while bathing, others were carried over a sluice in a boat and some perished after reckless ...
was agreed Oxford needed ‘a tepid swimming-bath’ and a rule that no one who ‘did not possess a swimming certif ...
world’. However, the following year the Penny Illustrated Paper was ‘glad to note that the Oxford University B ...
distance diving race, a hurdle race and a 50-yard race open only to the ‘pupils of Harvey, the University ...
1920s there would be a women’s club as well. An Oxford Regatta held during the First World War also include ...
or archives. Why is the history of Thames swimming so hard to find and why are documents so scarce? Why aren’t ...
Steedman in 1867. A Londoner by birth, Steedman learned to swim at thirteen and six years later became a ch ...
swimming for Tudor gentlemen in Latin, De arte natandi, with woodcut illustrations. He argued that ‘man swim ...
Steedman’s manual is said to be the first text on competitive swimming and its emphasis is on what would ...
move for people offering tours – walking tours, bus tours, ghost tours – the pavements before the grand sands ...
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