Downstream
hours a day, ‘and though the journey is a very favourite one for boating parties, the idea of accomplish ...
water-weeds, the shores flat and meadow-like and the water ‘clean and pure’. Boat trips from Folly Bridge to Lon ...
Victorian times.’ By then, Easton was already a well-known swimmer (in 1898 he came up with the idea of laun ...
following year he got as far as Westminster Bridge where he ‘seemed to become weak’ and left the water after co ...
and the press expected he would be ‘fully qualified to wrestle with his arduous task’, noting that he was th ...
seven hours later, he reached Abingdon Lock and then stopped at Culham Lock after nine miles and five f ...
Oxford already had a basic sewage system in place by the early nineteenth century, with the drains emptying i ...
The following day he resumed swimming and ‘by means of a steady breaststroke’ continued until 10 a.m. ‘when ...
o’clock this morning’. But at some point things went wrong, and after several attacks of cramp, and ‘a strained ...
believe, a milkman by trade – this perhaps explains his partiality for water!’ Although today no one seems ...
no one, apparently, had ever thought of doing it before. It would be more than a hundred years before anyone ...
I find it strange that an event so widely reported at the time has now been forgotten; it’s as if each ...
need to flash back to the past in order to make sense of the way we use and view the river today. I ...
paper announcing that as from 5 May ‘this Bathing Place will be OPEN, Free of Charge, for FEMALE BATHERS ...
centre and across a field and I can hear the place before I see it, with a loud rushing sound coming from ...
eighty-six-year-old grandma swam here. It’s really packed in the summer. Some people say we shouldn’t because of ...
perch, which he’s fished for in the past. As the boys leave I walk around the pool; the bottom looks shallo ...
with a wet flannel,’ Bob Hounslow told the Oxford Mail. ‘The thought of immersing my whole body in col ...
strokes they had learned lying on straw mats in the school playground. Eventually they managed the width and then t ...
in the Oxford area is further downstream at Sandford Lock. ‘The pools of Sandford Lasher, in the backwater by ...
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