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training for a Channel relay swim in 2012. The following year she completed thirty swims to celebrate her t ...
don’t know. But it’s comforting; it’s a community of swimmers.’ A couple of miles downriver is Maidenhead, whic ...
kitchen from which go forth those demons of the river – steam-launches’. Boulter’s Lock, just east of Mai ...
up in the river when their canoes capsized or were ‘run into’ by a steam launch. The artist Edward Grego ...
As for swimmers, during a ‘Volunteer Encampment’ in 1863, 500 men pitched their tents at Maidenhead and ‘owing to t ...
with boats’. But far more organised was the ‘River Race’ or ‘Long Swim’, run by the Maidenhead Amateur Swimming ...
raise funds, where 1,200 spectators watched a one-mile handicap and a ‘consolation race’. Then in 1897 the ...
later the club held its annual event, called the Swimming Competition, Carnival, and Cycle Gymkhana, in the ...
and many different styles of swimming’. This was followed by dancing and an open-air concert on the riverfront ...
evening in late summer to mark the end of the season. The original course for the men’s race, up until 1914, ...
during segregated hours at official bathing spots – they were racing against each other, too, with competi ...
wealthy local resident and former president of Maidenhead Football Club. After the war it was the turn of Badcoc ...
women’s event, having first taken part when she was eleven. She was a member of the Hammersmith Ladies Swimming ...
at both county and national level and was presented with Maidenhead’s ‘Woman of the Year’ award. River traffic ...
over to the side, but they were sucked back by the current right into the path of the steamer, which ...
came for the baby. I can remember grabbing hold of him and I can remember him saying, “I can’t take y ...
the day. By 1966, however, increasing costs meant there were only a couple of safety boats for the entire ...
other than being in the swimming pool all summer with friends and playing water polo.’ But as with Readin ...
by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. The idea came from three members of Maidenhead Rowing Club, Tom ...
on, I think it used to be a regular thing’, explaining she’d spotted an old trophy for a swim from Boulter’ ...
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