Downstream
presented with a silver medallion, which he still has today, and to have his photograph in the local paper ...
John Humphries, a member of the Outdoor Swimming Society, remembers ‘hundreds of people used to swim in the ...
used the various lidos into the early 1970s. At Scours Lane, situated in a sandy bay where the river was ...
meeting the same sorry fate of many of the country’s lidos. Some twenty years earlier the King’s Meadow men’s ...
reopened. It was then leased to a sub-aqua diving club but after the lease expired it fell into disrepai ...
partial roof gained Grade II listed status. Campaigners successfully blocked further development plans, clearing rubb ...
urged the council to bid for Lottery funding, along with the King’s Meadow Campaign, to keep the baths under pu ...
while there are enough rich people to use it but when they move on, the pool as it has been proposed, wi ...
Reading to swim here,’ wrote one woman, while another commented, ‘On the River Thames our Heritage [sic]! Beautiful ...
and lidos, galas and clubs, where a group of winter bathers could send a telegram to the King and fully e ...
Campaigners have fought a determined battle to save King’s Meadow women’s pool, pictured today. It opened in 1903 and appears to ...
When Gillian sends me photos of the old King’s Meadow women’s pool today I’m taken aback by the way it’s both ...
changing rooms are missing doors; there are rubbish bins on the side and weeds around the edge. Yet there is s ...
5 Shiplake and Wargrave ...
‘There is probably more than one Otter who harbours the idea of returning to the tideway for a repeat of ...
annual ‘Up-River race’ on the Thames. This was a quarter- mile course with eighteen entrants, and for many ...
Carmichael A. Young, with ‘fellowship and camaraderie’ cementing the members together. It’s not the oldest club – ...
survivors of the dozens of clubs that once raced in the Thames, and still swims there today. I’m meeting curr ...
definitely no leggings – and only when the ambient air temperature exceeds 24 degrees C are gentlemen allowed to ...
A busy Edwardian scene at Shiplake Lock, near where the Otter Swimming Club held its first annual ‘Up- River race’ in the summer ...
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