Downstream
was darker and mistier, and running more into the sky every moment.’ It’s a peaceful interlude in Thomas ...
cellars and with shadowy weeds running and folding like the long hair of girls’. Thomas and his friends fling th ...
A water slide moored in the River Thames at Kingston in the 1920s, probably at Town End Pier. ...
10 Teddington ‘Miss Eileen Lee’s Remarkable ...
Effort. All Thames’ Records Eclipsed’ Surrey Comet, August 1915 Teddington Lock, a couple of miles downstream from Ki ...
beginning of the tidal river. It’s here that the Thames comes under the control of the Port of London Aut ...
moon, sun and the rotation of the earth, with tides highest around a full and new moon. The PLA provides tid ...
heavy rain in the Thames Valley can all affect tide times and heights. Arriving at the start of the tidal Tha ...
every day, so every six hours the tide changes. If you’re swimming from Teddington to London, it is impo ...
would jump in, and literally fly with the outgoing tide. Myself and Nick flew past buildings, quays, moored ...
that much. At Teddington Lock I did accelerate.’ In Victorian times the lock was the site of two significant ...
many years regarded as ‘the longest and most famous swim in England’ and the winner won the championship and ...
age from fifteen into their forties and ‘probably even older’, all wearing ‘slight bathing drawers’. One competitor f ...
The following year three races were staged from Teddington Lock as part of Britain’s first National Olymp ...
German Gymnastics Society. The idea was to have a national, multi-sport event of ‘manly exercises’, held over t ...
the lock, all for ‘gentlemen amateurs’. Heavy rain and wind meant some competitors dropped out; the three win ...
few major swims from Teddington in the following decades until, half a century later, Eileen Lee, whose father ...
the ‘right arm over stroke’, swam until half past three, covering twenty-one and three-quarter miles in ...
Hospital, which she ‘acknowledged with a wave of her arm’. Just before reaching Fulham Railway Bridge she ...
boxer and ‘an expert with the foils’, and intended to swim the Channel. ...
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