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costume with capped sleeves and a Union Jack on the front. It’s a hundred years old, faded to a dull ...
Bridge and Kew, struggling against a strong headwind, dodging pieces of floating boxes, her eyes so inflamed by t ...
suit with capped sleeves, buttons and legs that went down the thigh a bit just boggles the mind.’ While t ...
continue to swim in Canada, but she set about teaching others as well, at the school she founded in Hamilton ...
child. With her father being a naval officer and diver, I’m sure swimming had something to do with that ...
considered it bragging, which appalled her. If she started bragging I’m sure all her siblings would have ...
about her great feats,’ says Cathy, ‘in our family the deed was/is always more important than the glory. The Brit ...
era that didn’t have the same, but it still wouldn’t make me want to ever swim in the Thames! If she ...
11 Richmond ‘Glide gently, thus for ever glide, ...
O Thames! that other bards may see, As lovely visions by thy side As now, fair river! come to me’ Willia ...
most attractive borough, at least according to the town’s website, and is among the wealthiest areas in th ...
founded in 1883, and covering nearly fifty years of the history of Thames swimming. The collection is housed in ...
that inspired Wordsworth’s 1790 poem, where ‘in thy waters may be seen/The image of a poet’s heart’. It’s ...
your Danube . . . The ferry- boat was turned round by the current, and carried to Isleworth.’ Charles Dicken ...
Bridge have been achieved before breakfast, I myself have risen at 6 and plunged head foremost into ...
natured announcements on boards, that I must be taken into custody . . . if I attempted it before so l ...
Ward, 16th Sept. 1871, Swimming Match Richmond to Kew’. Unfortunately, explains curator Sue Barber, there ar ...
Archivist Felix Lancashire has the scrapbook ready for me, a large blue hardbound document including handbooks ...
the Richmond Baths. This was the headquarters of the club, and its president was the MP Thomas Skewes-Cox. A few y ...
fixtures included a half-mile handicap held in June, with the club using the ‘dressing barge’ belonging ...
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