Downstream
ways non-stop, in 1990. The press, always alert to a woman’s physical appearance, described her as ‘5ft 4in an ...
mental strength, she explained, and the remaining 10 per cent is physical. Freda says her daughter was not aware ...
Hawke was broken, so when Alison set a Thames record in 1985 she didn’t know about the women who had come befor ...
have worked on the river for 25 years,’ he told the press, ‘and I have seen a number of bodies pulled ...
place for the boys to swim. There were lots of weeds and an unpleasant beastly feel, and it was rather dang ...
he says, ‘but we thought if an American can do it surely we can too.’ So on a hot day he took the plunge. ...
Christmas Day swim, I wait until it’s hot.’ The furthest he’s swum is half a mile upstream and back: ...
Teddington lifeboat service, since 2002 they have only been ‘turned down twice’ when setting out to res ...
give us a wave’. He often swims with his wife, Christina, and a group of around ten friends at Richmond an ...
extremely drunk young ladies on board, one recognised me and asked if I was me and I said I was. I aske ...
“swimmer ahead!” and he stopped at once. It can be dangerous and we discourage people from swimming if they ...
different parts of the Thames and the headline in one of the newspapers was “Killer River”. A week later I w ...
‘Killer river’ or not, the Thames at Richmond has long been beloved of swimmers, from Dickens’ joyful head ...
way through my journey downstream, having travelled some 150 miles from the source in Gloucestershire to Richmond, ...
12 Kew– Chiswick ...
‘On the way to Kew, By the river old and gray, Where in the Long Ago We laughed and loitered so’ William Ernest He ...
Thames, a five-mile course to Putney which first ran from here in 1890 and, except for the interruption ...
read from 1882, when a woman and her two-year-old child were spotted here and when a passer-by comme ...
accidental, and Kew is no exception. It was incidents like these, and particularly the plight of unmarried mothers ...
the millstone of her shame around her neck’. After keeping herself and her child ‘in miserably paid drudgery’ she even ...
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