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length serge and stockings. But this certainly didn’t stop the Kingston Ladies and they were one of several clu ...
to the railway bridge at Kingston, just over two miles. One added a further half a mile by carrying on ...
Hampton Court Bridge to Richmond Railway Bridge in five hours. The following year she set another record, swimming ...
old Claire Parlett, along with twelve others, left Sunbury Lock at 11 a.m. The ‘wonderful girl swimmer’ di ...
ending at Kingston Railway Bridge looking ‘quite fresh and well’. Kingston was a focal point for women swimmers ...
Kingston Ladies fielded both national and international stars; Violet Morgan won the Southern Counties ASA Girls ...
race in the Thames in twenty minutes forty-eight seconds. The fact that 50 per cent of Thames lightermen could ...
special exhibition at Holborn Baths, where competitors were supplied with Bovril, which, the programme promised, ...
Rhythmic Swimming Team which performed water ballet routines, and continued as a successful competitive club u ...
Daisy Littlewood in 1908 and a lifebuoy is now the club’s logo. Another women’s club, the Surrey Ladies, was for ...
service. As with the Kingston Ladies, they also swam in the Thames and the Surrey Ladies may well be the ...
started the race; just nine reached Teddington Lock. In 1931 a mother and daughter took part in a Surrey ...
Women dive off a barge at the start of the Surrey Ladies’ annual river swim in The winner was fourteen-year-old Ivy Hawke. Jus ...
who braved the often freezing Thames, who swam for hours, mile after mile, setting new records for speed and end ...
with a sepia image of eight beaming Surrey Ladies competing for the 1917 long- distance swim from Raven ...
shows nine women in the process of jumping from a big barge, watched by uniformed soldiers. A big banner re ...
the male spectators are wearing coats, hats and scarves. Hawke was clearly an important member of the club; ...
Young, who donated the images, might be related to one of the swimmers, but it turns out she’s a collector who boug ...
she quickly became fascinated by Ivy Hawke. A swimmer herself, Rebecca had never imagined ‘that women were swimm ...
She stopped swimming competitively when she left school but a couple of years ago, and now living in England, s ...
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