Downstream
very common around Wargrave and people don’t bat an eyelid. ‘There are river families who have been here for ...
turned gastro. Sunday drivers come and sit and look at the river, they are not engaging with it and old people ...
of the way quickly. Demelza wouldn’t swim in central London: ‘it’s too dangerous and there are all the currents. ...
swimming.’ Demelza is doing what people have always done: engaged with the Thames as swimmers. For her it is ...
the footsteps of those eighteen men who, in the summer of 1888, plunged into the water from a houseboat a ...
6 Henley-on- Thames ...
‘O, COME down to Henley, for London is horrid’ J. Ashby-Sterry, ‘Henley in July’, 1886 It’s a sunny morning in ...
rowers just pulling off near the town’s famous five- arched bridge. Henley Reach, north of the bridge, is the longes ...
for hire, and a weather-beaten boat called the Aquaholic is up for sale for £2,000. The water looks quite in ...
boat, and then another. I head along the river towards Mill Meadows where large boats rest at a line ...
and sizes, a clear indication of the town’s glorious boating tradition. Henley dates back to medieval settlem ...
became a holiday destination where wealthy city folk moored their weekend houseboats. The town was only an hou ...
famous and the event ranked with Ascot as ‘among the favourite fashionable meetings of the season’. The regat ...
‘so inconveniently crowded with steam launches, house boats, skiffs, gigs, punts, dinghys, canoes and every other ...
the two days’ aquatic amusements were ‘rather dull’ and ‘No steam-boats were this year allowed on the river’. ...
there, in the silence and the solitude, strangle it.’ After the Second World War Henley was still a place of pla ...
Today the introduction to the town’s website resembles Victorian descriptions of the place: ‘Henley-on-Thames is ...
trains the journey means a change at Twyford, so it still takes around an hour. Such is Henley’s renown for ...
the world. The River and Rowing Museum is a large, bright riverside building with famous boats, tales of sport ...
handful of photos and artefacts related to bathing. ‘Swimming is a bit of a side mention, our focus is rowing, ...
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