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the Thames abounds,’ commented Dickens’s Dictionary of the Thames in ‘But it should always be remembered that a ...
500 Londoners killed themselves each year by jumping into the river. At the beginning of the twentieth century ...
– the most famous woman swimmer of the last century – swam thirteen miles from Putney to Blackwell in her ...
Teddington in 1916. Women didn’t have the vote, they were still seen as the weaker sex – physically and me ...
Annette Kellerman, the champion Australian swimmer, made her British debut in the River Thames in 1905. Here an illustration fro ...
demonstrating a dive. River racing was put on hold during the First World War, and then the growth of municipal ...
became a seaside resort for Londoners, with beaches at Putney, Tower Bridge, Greenwich and Grays. When the children ...
infrastructure, sewage was heading straight into the Thames again and in some stretches there was no oxygen and ...
swimming spots were closed down, and although by now Thames water quality was improving, this was a trend ...
nowhere near the scale it used to be, but it is back: from the Bridge to Bridge swim between Henley and Marlow ...
highway’. Despite the modern cult of Health & Safety, and signs specifically banning swimming, people continue ...
with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh’ – is as much a character as Mole, Ratty, Badger and Mr ...
Today the Thames is, after the sea, our second favourite open-water place to swim in, according to the charity ...
downstream from Putney any more. In 2012 a by-law was introduced preventing people from swimming between P ...
It is also the busiest inland waterway in the UK.’ There are passenger vessels ‘which carry over six million ...
pastime. And why, when the river is now generally seen as one of the world’s cleanest metropolitan waterway ...
race in 2012. When, in 2006, Lewis Pugh became the first person to swim the entire length of the Thames i ...
tidal Thames in 2005. It is why brothers Richard and Mark Walsh swam from Lechlade to Teddington in 2009, ...
that he is a celebrity and the enormous publicity that surrounded his swim for Sport Relief raised its pro ...
potentially catch the disease from water contaminated with the urine of infected rats, but leptospirosis is ...
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