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New Kingston men’s club and the Surrey Ladies in This meant that Rebecca had another strong link to Ivy Hawke, ...
Raven’s Ait and in which the finish line varied, depending on who swam the furthest. ...
Members of the Surrey Ladies Swimming Club, the Thames’ first club for women. Ivy Hawke, nicknamed the ‘Smiling Swimmer’, is sec ...
She won a number of races from Raven’s Ait to Kew Bridge, to Chiswick church and to Albert Bridge at Chelsea. ...
Lane, amateur champion of Australia, made his first public appearance in England during a half-mile race agains ...
team. Raven’s Ait has changed over the years; it’s been home to the Kingston Rowing College, and the Navy Le ...
set her sights on the Channel. The river was seen as an ideal place – perhaps the only place – to train for ...
minutes, becoming the fifth woman and the third British woman ever to successfully swim the Channel. ‘Miss ...
visible is her white hat, and at the end she’s surrounded by cheering supporters, clearly shattered but wearing he ...
after that I shall continue to help my mother at home.’ In 1929 she tried to swim from England to F ...
She donned both when she took part in the Hampton Court to Kingston race, the first time she’d ever ...
‘definitely be back to do it again’. Rebecca came across Ivy Hawke quite by chance. But Ivy’s story spoke to ...
the Kingston Ladies can at last take their rightful place in the history of British swimming. During the earl ...
few yards out in the stream’, with an impressive 250 dressing cubicles on the bank. The site was for both m ...
‘wordy battles’ were fought through the pages of the local press. Some mocked that Emms had bought a white ...
idea being that it enabled people to arrive by car, park their vehicle then enjoy a boat trip or a ...
they did for recreation, like kids would go to an indoor pool now.’ Jack has photographs of three of his ...
the Thames, probably at Town End Pier where Queen’s Promenade begins, ‘where there is a slight kink in the ri ...
Phyllis Broom’s siblings sitting on a diving board at Kingston’s bathing place, known as Boats and Cars, in 1924. The late no ...
Thomas also enjoyed swimming near Kingston. He was born in 1931 and, after being orphaned at twelve, ...
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