Downstream
Ware – or Cuckoo Weir – and South Hope remained in use. In 1856 Evans was granted a land lease w ...
from Evans and Selwyn, again improving Cuckoo Weir as well as two other swimming spots, Boveney and Athens. ...
drowning has occurred for many years; and this, at a place where everybody seeks the river as his natural ...
objection of the innumerable Mrs. Grundies of those days to the sight of youth disporting itself naked and u ...
noted The Badminton Library, with the event repeated once or twice a week during the summer term, with 20 ...
duumvirate was set up, the authors of The Eton Book of the River, L.S.R. Byrne and E.L. Churchill. Their first ...
of the Fifth Form, while Boveney Weir stream was confined to a ‘select few’. It was then decided to widen C ...
pupil, John Baker, was killed in a flying accident. The Commissioners for Crown Lands agreed to sell the lan ...
boyhood’. On one side of the stone is a sign outlining BATHING REGULATIONS AT ATHENS, as taken from the 1921 ...
Windsor Bank or to swim out to launches and barges or to hang onto, or interfere with, boats of any kin ...
rules restricting swimming to certain places at certain hours and to pass an exam, just as in other subjects ...
their blankets, swing them by their hands and feet and toss them into the river. Later in the day there ...
‘more prominent boys in the school’. But the days of swimming in the Thames came to an end, at least ...
warned to stay away from ponds and rivers. I stack the old swimming society books into a neat pile and h ...
the current is really strong, especially around Windsor Bridge.’ He’s right; standing on the bridge a few minutes ...
geese is deafening, the landscape busy with bridges, a viaduct and various channels. There are plenty of sign ...
bridge leads to the island, a wide stretch of grass deserted today but for a solitary man on a bike. It’s ...
in attendance and swimming taught. W.F. Taylor.’ Taylor had a shop opposite the parish church and was also k ...
moved to the other side of the railway bridge.’ The new site, between Jacobs Island and the riverbank, was known ...
The Windsor Swimming Club, founded in 1883, held annual competitions which included Walking the Slippery Pole, with the winner r ...
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