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chair, and ducked in the river Thames, under Kingston bridge, in the presence of 2,000 or 3,000 people’. When t ...
and trim villas. As with elsewhere on the Thames, it had become popular with city day trippers and boating enthusi ...
Others, filmed by passers-by, show people jumping off the 23-foot bridge to roars of ‘go on, mate!’ and ‘hurry up!’ ...
table with boxes of card catalogues, on top of which is a small brown stuffed mouse. It appears to be watch ...
obtained a seven-year lease and put up a canvas screen to shield passers-by from nude bathers, just as at ...
burgesses over whether the town should be allowed to drain all its sewage into the Thames. The Thames Conservanc ...
Thames had been ‘used from all time’ for drinking water and fishing, although when it came to bathing it ...
the Court of Chancery was that ‘everybody has a right to employ the water of a large public river as he ...
accessed by steps near Kingston Bridge, but the Thames Conservators objected to its location so it was towed ...
‘miniature war’ broke out, reported the Surrey Mirror on 19 August 1882: ‘An unseemly squabble, ending in s ...
the navigable part of the river’. At 8 a.m. a tug called Queen arrived on the scene and its crew tried to ...
charge, resulting in a ‘scrimmage’. The Borough Surveyor won. By now a large crowd had come to watch, as w ...
Gould ‘showed resistance’. In the resulting dispute ‘boat hooks were freely used’, one of which tore Gould’s ...
outcome, reporting that as the tug turned ‘her head down the river, and as she steamed away cheers . ...
week later David Pamplin, former teacher and examiner of swimming at Wellington College, and now at the Kingsto ...
importance of life saving, he ended with a quotation from the Revd C.H. Spurgeon: ‘Should you fall into ...
‘bathing place’ noted on the Hampton Wick side of the river. People clearly liked a swim in Kingston, th ...
had fancied a bathe at 2 a.m. He had ‘got to the Middlesex side’ but was not able to get out, so he was ‘ ...
women on the Thames, was formed. They held their first meeting in May 1898 with twenty-four members and a few mon ...
club swimsuit instead. This was a knee-length garment in brown serge, with frilled sleeves, high neck, ...
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