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winning the long-distance championships from Putney to Charing Cross Railway Bridge in 1887. He also played water ...
such as the Highgate Men’s Pond on Hampstead Heath. He also kept in close contact with the Reading clu ...
The Reading Swimming and Lifesaving Club was founded in 1885, with its headquarters eventually at the King’s Meadow men’s pool. ...
By the end of 1893 the King’s Meadow pool had undergone ‘extensive alterations and enlargement’. The bath was now ...
with hat and coat hooks, nine large dressing boxes, a ticket office and toilets. Thames swimming at Readi ...
An iron fence was erected around the bath, high enough at the south end to ‘prevent the interior from bein ...
an area for learners and other amenities. But back in the 1890s this was seen as a civic responsibility, ...
ceremony at the King’s Meadow pool a 100 yards scratch race was held, when swimmers set off together with t ...
‘Moss’s Island’ – an area of Fry’s Island leased by local boat builder and water bailiff Bill Moss – ‘fo ...
upon natation as an art which the town ought to foster in every possible way’. He was also calling for ...
Thames swimming clubs its fortunes were mixed and ‘the attendance was decidedly meagre’. There was a Boys’ ...
At the club’s entertainment in 1897 swimming was ‘not so popular as a spectacle it ought to be, and there ...
stressed the ‘great importance in a town like Reading, situated, as it was, on the banks of the principa ...
1886 (although its history is complex and it’s often said to have been founded much earlier) and by 1892 ...
necessary that a boy should learn to swim as it was that he should learn to write’. Club members competed ...
Meadow pool in the presence of ‘many spectators’, but the following year was ‘a variable one, successful ...
However, the winner of the championship of Reading now received a ‘new and handsome challenge vase’ and th ...
bathing place, with the opening of a Ladies’ Swimming Bath at King’s Meadow. Women may have been allowed to ...
The Ladies’ Bath was a brick and tile building surrounding an open-air pool, smaller than the men’s at 120 fee ...
country’. A women’s section of the Reading Swimming Club was founded the following year, and by 1914 there was a ...
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