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‘Long Swim’ got in touch. The three men then decided to organise it as an official event, but first they ...
covered through their insurance.” The council have been great.’ Ben has also been doing triathlons since 2009 – ‘o ...
got in touch and people remembered it fondly; it was a significant community event and we wanted to retain that ...
Swim in 1967 and 1968. Cynthia Lockie (née Brooke), who won the women’s race in 1950, brought her family along ...
Today the distance is 2.8 kilometres and there are three categories: Open, Masters 49+ and Junior 15–18. ‘Lots of ...
swim. But I used to work for the EA; we know the river is cleaner because of the wildlife.’ As for wetsuits, ...
kit, so it becomes exclusive,’ he says. ‘I’d love to see open- water swims more accessible. Lots of co ...
with the full backing of the council. But what puzzles me is not so much how we lost the tradition of swi ...
certificates. Champions were created, records were broken. How could all of this have been so easily forgot ...
been spotted in an antiques shop, would hundreds of people now be swimming the very same course that ...
8 Windsor and Eton ...
‘Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths ...
Thames swimming because, unlike other riverside towns, the tradition of bathing, among royalty and privileged Eton ...
compensation. By the 1500s pupils at Eton, founded in 1440 by Henry VI, were bathing at numerous places along ...
a public bathing place on the Thames as early as the 1850s, followed by local swimming clubs for both men ...
to the castle, the Queen’s official residence. The Thames is a short walk from the station and the water looks i ...
A newspaper illustration from the 1880s showing Eton boys at Athens and Boveney, two of the college’s swimming spots ...
on the Thames. In theory bathing drawers were compulsory. I reach the porter’s lodge at Eton College where I’m ask ...
all sides by ancient buildings, making it feel a bit like an exclusive barracks. There is, as Henry Skrine ...
I produce my passport and driving licence (getting into the archives is no easy matter) and the archivist, Penny H ...
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