Downstream
Thames books, many of which are hundreds of years old. But even among these, Lindsay warns, there is litt ...
pamphlets of the time a good deal of space is taken up with the correct actions of the hands and feet, an ...
swims were frowned upon – ‘the hair is not perfectly dried, and coryza [a head cold] is sometimes the con ...
mention is made of what women should wear, because in 1847 they were not expected to be able to swi ...
‘this art . . . has made little if any progress from the earliest records that we possess of it’. Next ...
established on the Thames in the early 1870s next to Wargrave Road, on an area of land known as Solomon ...
Angler’s Map cited ‘good bathing at all hours at Solomon’s Hatch’ as did George Leslie in his 1881 book Our Ri ...
the hours of 11 and 1 in the morning it is reserved for ladies only, and I am glad to say a good many ...
came to women swimming outdoors: ‘there are not many lady swimmers who bathe in open fresh water,’ explain ...
deckchairs and a series of steps into the water. The postcard dates from around 1910 and it shows swimme ...
punt. In the early days the Henley Swimming Club, formed in 1894 ‘to encourage the most necessary accomplish ...
weekly magazine, Lock-to- Lock Times: The Journal of the Thames, was launched. It included profiles and sporting ...
a report on Madame Darnley Mitchell, ‘accomplished swimming mistress of Kingston baths’ who on 14 June ‘too ...
eating and drinking underwater, sinking to the bottom and passing through a hoop. Despite the continuing need for privac ...
Madame Mitchell, if she had swum any distance over twenty miles she would have set a new world record for wo ...
While swimming races were mainly held in indoor baths, in 1891 the Ilex Swimming Club’s annual handicap ...
Lambeth Baths in London and the position of club captain was annually swum for in the Thames. ...
The Henley Swimming Baths were established in the early 1870s on an area of land known as Solomon’s Hatch where there was ‘good ...
Solomon’s Hatch was still well used, this time by the boys of Henley Royal Grammar School. The school magaz ...
Phyllis Cup and a House Competition. But senior boys had proved themselves ‘not very keen’, and the school authoriti ...
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