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the lock and which apparently belonged to someone else. ...
Eileen’s father Patrick Lee, pictured here in his Royal Naval uniform, was the lock keeper at Teddington. His daughter Eileen ...
meanwhile, appears to have won her first race in 1912 and Barbara sends me a letter dated September 1913 ...
Offer, honorary secretary, sent with best wishes for Eileen’s future success, noting that ‘if the distance ...
risky for all involved for her to be in the Channel for the length of time the swim would have taken when ...
she left England and after several moves settled in Hamilton, Ontario. She was still famous enough to have been ...
from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m., so maybe a bit late for a mother?’ suggests Jill. But she continued her swimm ...
where one of her students, Frank Augustine, went on to become a principal dancer with the Canadian National ...
to the house to deliver the baby being drunk and the cord was wrapped around the neck, cutting off the oxygen s ...
graduate of Sandhurst, had been a victim of mustard gas during the war: ‘the pain was excruciating for ...
seven children, eighteen grandchildren and four great- grandchildren. She died on 20 April 1976. Her grandchildr ...
famous of the Lee children as it set a world record,’ says Barbara. ‘She certainly could have taken go ...
examining children for the Red Cross and Royal Life Saving Society swimming programmes. Barbara sends me a photo ...
holes from where it’s been proudly pinned to Cathy’s bulletin board for forty years. In 1967 Barbara went ...
from their house. I was eleven years old, and the thought of turning that big wheel to open the lock ...
lock. I really didn’t want to, it looked so heavy, but the gentleman encouraged me and actually helped me ge ...
the River Thames? ‘I thought it was very small at Teddington, as we had already seen it up in London, and I w ...
into a highway!’ The family have certainly treasured Eileen Lee’s memory and sporting legacy. While they ar ...
below Molesey Lock or below Kingston Bridge for long distance swimming’. There’s a list of names, dates a ...
Crystal Palace fête in 1915), a set of their grandmother’s dumbbells and a carved statue of Eileen Lee in wood ...
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