Downstream
midday sun, providing a glimpse of blue sky, Gothic spires and a distant flagpole. All I can hear is the s ...
yellow over the years, and while its focus is the evolution of boat racing there are two chapters on bathin ...
playing fields. By the 1770s the college had hired ‘watermen’ with boats and one pupil, writing to his father in 1796 ...
decade later: ‘Sooner or later all swam. Men were stationed at particular bathing places, to prevent accidents (to b ...
was followed by ‘great fun by land and water’. Some ‘little fellows’ had an unusual way of drying themselves, ‘ ...
are not able to swim are debarred from ablution except at particular places, where it is almost an utter ...
Cuckow Ware, Head Pile, Pope’s Hole, Cotton’s Hole, South Hope and Dickson’s Hole. ‘This use of the word H ...
societies. In 1828 the Philolutic Society was formed, with members from Cambridge, Windsor and Eton. It was divided ...
The Philolutic Society’s accounts book from 1829 to 1833 includes weekly fines for ‘non-bathing’ at a c ...
He was known to bathe every day, whatever the weather, in a creek of the Thames near Barn Elms where ...
are 183 members, some resident near Eton and others occasional visitors, but after a few pages it descends ...
columns, giving the name of the river or lake, which members bathed there and what, if any, were the rem ...
Small’, and the Clyde ‘uncomfortable’. Members swam in rivers abroad as well, including the Seine and the Rhine. ...
In the following decades swimming for Eton pupils became even more organised, thanks to William Evans and Ge ...
river above Windsor, and while ‘going down in a sinking boat’ standing up on his seat and taking ‘a dext ...
a result, Selwyn and Evans ‘prevailed’ upon the then headmaster, Dr Hawtrey, that all boys should pass an exami ...
A ‘pass’ in progress at Eton, a regular summer event that included diving, swimming and treading water. In the 1890s around 200 ...
The various tests, which became known as ‘passing’, or ‘the Eton pass’, included ‘a header’ (dive) from two ...
needed ‘a clear view all round him,’ explains The Eton Book of the River, ‘and this is in some circum ...
James Thomson, ‘This is the purest exercise of Health,/The kind refresher of the Summer heats’. The poet a ...
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