Downstream
Buckinghamshire market town.’ Samples of river water had been ‘analyzed and found to be POLLUTED’. The Education A ...
taught to swim in the Thames – at Tumbling Bay in Oxford, King’s Meadow in Reading and Solomon’s Hatch in He ...
swim organised by Human Race, the largest mass participation events company in the UK, who promise that ‘taking to ...
because of a whole raft of reasons,’ explains John Lunt, who founded the company in 1990, including the fact ...
had been seen, and there is less industry now, and we thought, let’s go for it . . . And now we’ve ...
users had learnt to swim in the Thames when people couldn’t afford pools, and they weren’t surprised by ou ...
swimmers who want a new challenge, as well as novice open-water people. Human Race’s official charity is Canc ...
because ‘if people are not happy then they don’t start’. Ten to 20 per cent are no- show, usually because they ...
conditioned and possibly less prepared’. At Marlow there are three events, 750 metres, 1,500 metres and three kilometr ...
chance that participants may contract illness from competing in such water’. They need to be ‘aware of ...
range of safety cover levels.’ F3 Events also run mass swims at Marlow. The company was established in 2006 and ...
the water’. In 2012, when the Thames was ‘red boarded’ (with warning signs placed on locks to advise boat u ...
shortened the course on safety grounds’. F33 hold swims at Henley-on-Thames and Windsor and on average 350–500 people ...
another favourite spot for swimmers. This was ‘earthly paradise’ for artist Stanley Spencer who painted numerous ...
the river. She used to go canoeing on the Thames, but as a child she was told it was a dirty place and d ...
came from a desire to raise money for charity. ‘I did a Race for Life run and hated it. I thought ther ...
security to get out! So then I really started looking for other ways to swim.’ ...
‘Swimming in the Thames was a thrilling experience’: Ella Foote pictured at Pinewood Studios during her 30 Memorable Swims Proje ...
About two years ago Ella joined the OSS and took part in a swim upstream on the Thames at Sonning. ‘I tho ...
long narrow boat is coming at you, they don’t know you’re there.’ But over all she found it ‘a thrillin ...
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