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Charlestown Bridge to Boston Light, competing against three professional male swimmers. She was the only one to fi ...
have been shot at Richmond. In one, titled ‘The Heat Wave, London children solve the problem of how to ...
the Thames during a route march. Three men are helped out of their kilts, then dive off a punt in shorts ...
with a large raft for bathers, both men and women, steps down to the water, a slide and a diving board ...
In 1929 a temporary lido was built on the Thames at Richmond with a raft, slide and diving board. ...
Some sixty years later Richmond was again the starting point for a memorable swim when Kevin Murphy co ...
Swimming & Piloting Federation and president of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. In 1970 ...
early in the season as training for the Channel. My plan was to do a three-way swim in July and we were ...
I was living in Harrow, and working on Fleet Street. I dreamed it up because I thought it was a good challenge. I ...
the time was Will Smith; he was a tugboat skipper at Gravesend and through him I met Don Able. Able was my pilot ...
it was a good idea to prove it. I don’t remember people saying the Thames was dirty, but I would have ...
picked up the tide and shot through central London, passing Big Ben at 7.40 a.m. He reached Gravesend, having swum ...
stop until you get out at the other, you don’t do it in stages wearing a wetsuit. A wetsuit is a rubber rin ...
then it was probably a biscuit and a cup of coffee’, and followed Channel rules that forbade him to touch a ...
the Thames again? ‘I’m a little past it now,’ says the sixty-five-year-old, ‘I have lots of injuries. M ...
who has swum the Channel forty-six times, more than anyone else in the world – did beat Kevin’s record, in ...
shoulders are ‘shot to pieces’), and won’t give interviews. But her mother, Freda Streeter, describes her Thames ...
waterman who knew every inch of the Thames. But there were difficulties, like the wind in the lower Tham ...
was so strong, and she caught her foot on a submerged trolley’. It was Freda who taught her daughter to swim. ‘ ...
swim and swimming kept the asthma at bay. She said one day she’d like to try the Channel and we just ...
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