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the Richmond Club’s president was now a JP – he was knighted a few years later – and another river race was ...
club’s ‘coming of age’, and the Wishart Challenge Cup started in 1907 for the quarter-mile at Walton. Club memb ...
reached the semi-finals of the 100 metres backstroke in the Olympic Games. But the number of people entering the rive ...
explaining there were no fixtures arranged for the current year and no handbook had been published. And whil ...
as privates, lieutenants, troopers and gunners. Church bells begin to chime ominously outside the attic room ...
But while there were no fixtures because of the war, the club began to promote races at local schools and ...
just as they did with other Thames clubs like those at Reading. Now there were a large number of j ...
still a ‘poor number of entries’ to the Thames races. The scrapbook ends in 1931, but the club still oper ...
snorkelling, synchronised swimming, water polo and water volleyball. It wasn’t just the Richmond Club that ...
Blackfriars in what became an ‘annual through London swimming contest’. This was not promoted by the ASA, but d ...
Lodewijk Ooms. Jarvis, then in his mid-thirties, had begun racing at sixteen, and had been the leading world mid ...
best’, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and his Richmond race was therefore ‘perhaps his mo ...
Competitors line up for the start of the inaugural Richmond to Blackfriars race in 1907, ‘the most important swimming race ever ...
in this race, and that was Lily Smith. The Mirror devoted its front page to a pictorial coverage of the e ...
when many of the Mirror’s pictorial features were now focused on suffragettes being released from Hollo ...
rally in London, while the following year the first hunger strikes started. The British women’s Olympic swimming team ...
to right: Bella Moore, Jennie Fletcher, Annie Spiers, Irene Steer. Chaperone Clara Jarvis, whose brother John Arthur Jarvis won ...
of the Kingston Ladies Club. Overall, fifty-seven people started the race, only eighteen finished (of which, it ...
photograph from around 1910 shows her next to Lee’s trainer, Walter Brickett. She won the ‘ladies half-mile cha ...
In 1912 ‘London’s best known lady swimmer’ Lily Smith set her sights on the Channel in order ‘to put a stop forever to all this ...
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