Downstream
a very good place to drown yourself in,’ comments the narrator of Three Men in a Boat, while Dick ...
lasher is described on modern maps as a treacherous weir pool with a very strong undercurrent, while t ...
the river to learn to swim, a basic skill that everyone needed to know, but according to the media today ...
bridges’, and the Environment Agency (EA) estimates that ‘between 50 and 100 children a day can be found playi ...
authority on the Thames, operating under legislation that goes back to Magna Carta, and owns the forty-one ...
river or of the water. The riparian landowners have rights to the banks and bed where their land adjoins the ...
‘softer’ with the introduction of indoor pools, there has also been a growth in mass- participation events ...
cleansed and played in it. The perception is it’s getting cleaner, which it is. I grew up in southeast L ...
Yet while the EA monitors ecological and biological quality, there are no official bathing waters on the Thames, so ...
have warmer summers and people are attracted to riverbanks. It’s a free activity and it’s more popular now, ...
the place with at least one incident every year. The annual May Day tradition of jumping off Magdalen Bridg ...
it’s also hazardous and I never considered that people just chuck stuff in.’ He cites stolen laptops a ...
and Recover divers remove hazardous materials by Whitchurch Bridge. In previous years divers had pulled out shoppin ...
The EA cites numerous possible risks associated with swimming and diving in the Thames, including falling on met ...
wonder people are put off and some Oxford residents, like Christopher Gray, think the idea of river swimming ...
and Clifton Hampden. To him this was ‘Barking mad . . . River swimming is a new faddish activity. Like m ...
‘Oxford was really grotty. I ended up in hospital there, although we didn’t mention it to the press at the time ...
which people in the third world get from dirty water, and it makes you very ill with diarrhoea. It lays eg ...
hospital he says ‘people swim here all the time and they are fine’. Indeed they are, and despite warnings ...
Times. ‘After all, the weather is getting hotter and the rivers cleaner.’ Swimming teacher Dee Keane has lived i ...
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