Downstream
and 1970s – as was Wallingford where, at the turn of the century, children had been taught to swim wearing sa ...
massive amount of people doing it, there was an open- air pool nearby that people went to and originally it ...
brought up her children, now fourteen and seventeen, to swim in the Thames, and the only experience of any illne ...
seventeen. He would run and jump in anywhere he could. He swam twice a day around Abingdon.’ Tami has tak ...
mind, the rowers aren’t a problem, and the fish like me, I know because I have pike nibble marks on m ...
while children may now be urged to swim indoors and many of the old bathing places have gone, the art of ri ...
keen to learn the new art; now we plunge into cold water in wetsuits. Here we are again, returning to the ...
4 Reading ‘It [is] as necessary that a boy ...
should learn to swim as it [is] that he should learn to write’ Reading Swimming Club, 1897 Reading has two lo ...
has one of the longest continuous traditions of Thames swimming. Regattas were held here in Victorian times, al ...
arrived in Reading he declared ‘the river is dirty and dismal here’. But that didn’t stop bathers, althou ...
As in Oxford, there would be several official swimming areas at Reading, but this time there would also ...
the towpath on horseback where bathers were ‘a great nuisance’ during hay-making time, running through the hay and t ...
deep water ‘where the older boys bathed at the foot of the lock. This did not wholly prevent bathing but man ...
Bathers enjoy the King’s Meadow men’s pool in It was opened in 1834, situated in an inland cut and filled directly from the riv ...
open air swimming baths in the country’. In 1834 the King’s Meadow swimming baths were officially opened, situated ...
‘near the pound-keeper’s lodge’ in 1843 and a further renovation fifty years later. There were also three ...
headquarters at the King’s Meadow pool. A founding member was Harry John Isaacs who received a bronze medal ...
Club organised annual entertainments, just like its counterpart in Lechlade, with its 1892 event held at ...
first being explained by a Mr W. Henry, and then demonstrated by club members. Spectators were ‘very numero ...
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