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Charlie Wittmack had a similar experience during his world triathlon in 2010: ‘when you swim your head is i ...
One day I stopped and popped my head up out of the water and looked over and I was right outside of Windsor Ca ...
9 Hampton Court– ...
Molesey Lock– Sunbury– Kingston ‘Should you fall into the water, you will find swimming of more use than math ...
Spurgeon, Baptist preacher, 1834–92 It’s a bitter April morning as I approach Hampton Court, on board the Richmo ...
the sides are lined with red leather seats, the floor covered in patterned carpet like an old-fashioned pub. ...
around 8 p.m. on a hot day: ‘we saw a man in the middle of the river, with his mates outside a pub cheering ...
just in time to see Henry VIII’s magnificent palace, originally built for Cardinal Wolsey. There’s a glint of go ...
being skilled in Swimming, they were all drowned.’ But others found it a perfect spot. ‘If there be a situ ...
sleeping, like a pond. This keeps the waters always clear and clean, the bottom in view, the fish playing and ...
it was illegal to shoot them and that ‘porpoise meat, though doubtless nourishing and perhaps toothsome, has long ...
Bran, ‘swimmer, waterman and ferryman at Hampton’, escorted the American Davis Dalton in his attempt to swim th ...
Dalton was in the Thames, this time swimming all the way from Blackwall to Gravesend on his back. Today thi ...
end points are in different places and we have to move people’s kit,’ explains John Lunt, ‘but for spectato ...
rower Toby Garbett (who also swims the Henley Classic), and the race raised £10,000 for WaterAid. In 2011 it ...
the weather. Victorian holidaymakers enjoyed regattas at Hampton Court, while in the 1920s there was a resort for swimmers known ...
In 2012 the race was postponed from July to October after heavy rainfall and flooding, and in a survey c ...
river event, and those over the age of forty, were less likely to get ill. It recommended cleaning wetsuits af ...
the modern world precautions are always being improved and refined. I cross the handsome three- arched Hampton Bri ...
Gloucestershire, to a winding waterway through the city of Oxford, to the rowers’ delight that is Henley, the g ...
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