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annual competitions; with the winner of the 50 yards Novice Race being awarded a silver pencil case, and the ...
number of spectators assembled in the Eton Brocas to witness the event’. The course was from the Great Western Rail ...
spectators present’ and Mayor Mr J. Lundy said he was ‘surprised and pleased to find ladies present’. Sometime ...
one of many Thames-side clubs for women in the period. The press reported that within just a few months ‘its ...
was a significant one for women: they were allowed for the first time to compete in Olympic swimming and divi ...
The object of the Windsor Club was ‘the encouragement of the art of swimming and life saving,’ explained it ...
yearbook reminds members that at meetings of ‘both sexes’ and in all Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) champi ...
costumes were being manufactured, but it applied only to men – the first ASA championships for women weren’t ...
presumably because these were less transparent when wet. Men who didn’t wear the regulation costume when ‘ladies ...
to wear ‘on leaving the dressing room, a long coat or bath gown before entering and immediately after ...
bodies shielded from view until they got in the water and covered up again the moment they got out. By 193 ...
save someone ‘by one release method and carry her 30 yards by one rescue method’. The women swam from Boveney Lo ...
mixed bathing had been introduced and diving boards installed, but the baths, like those at Reading, appear to have ...
of Health & Safety; the council said we had to do the place up and we couldn’t afford it.’ Windsor Swimming ...
reputation.’ Their focus is ‘competitive development’, with training no longer held in the Thames but at va ...
Human Race chose Windsor as the location for one of its annual swims, with the background of the iconic Windsor Castle. But if ...
today, as at Henley, Marlow and Maidenhead, it’s a popular place for mass- participation events. ‘Windsor is such ...
would have been in a lake, but as the River Thames goes through the town it was perfect’. Places for the t ...
arriving here in 2006, having swum from Lechlade, it was definitely a high point. ‘The Thames graduall ...
sensory deprivation in the Thames, the water was mud- brown so I saw little underneath me and when I took a br ...
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