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In August 1915, nineteen- year-old Eileen Lee (right) covered nearly twenty-two miles between Tower Bridge and Richmond and went ...
Eileen Lee’s plan was to swim to Richmond and then return with the tide to Putney, but at Richmond the ...
her return journey. The Thames Valley Times reported that she was ‘frequently cheered by different groups on the ri ...
object of going down river’. She also experienced a strong headwind and had to dodge bits of floating box ...
Lee had only started swimming at the age of fifteen and the paper noted that, while many had completed long-di ...
The Daily Mirror printed photographs of Brickett feeding her during the swim, at one point spooning food into her ...
furiously waving his arms to urge her on. Moments later she can be seen swimming equally fast in the other dire ...
posing with Brickett, still talking animatedly, next to whom is her father, Teddington lock keeper Patrick Lee. ...
by showing ‘wonderful endurance’ and swimming a staggering thirty-six and a quarter miles from Teddington in ten hour ...
ready to attest to the authenticity of the swim. Lee caught the ebb tide, reached Wapping Pier after six hour ...
even twenty-six strokes per minute’. Described as ‘invariably cheerful’ and regarded by Brickett as ‘the most ...
pulverized. The swimmer herself was in the happiest of mood.’ She had beaten the previous record holder, ‘an Austrian ...
become the first woman to ‘attempt to rival Webb’ by swimming the Channel. She was then thirty, of medium ...
this young woman who had only started swimming at the age of fifteen and a few years later covered more th ...
never heard of, Jill Morrison. The message window was blank and I was about to add it to the spam folder wh ...
Barbara Allan and Cathy Stroud who live in Hamilton, Ontario, and have researched the family’s history, becau ...
Her father, Patrick, was a naval officer who was awarded several medals during the course of his career, including a ...
his fifteenth birthday, retiring after twenty-three years as chief petty officer. He qualified as a naval ...
Royal Navy uniform, a row of medals on his jacket; in the second he appears decades older, a pipe in his ...
studio, wearing his rain gear, the photographer yelled “DON’T MOVE” and took the photo of Patrick Lee. This photo ...
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