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Commons race’ because the cup was subscribed for by members of both Houses of Parliament. The original course was from ...
(ASA). In August 1890, ‘owing to the dirty state of the river’, the ASA decided to move it to Kew. The course r ...
1897 ‘colonials and foreigners’ were taking part; in 1899 the winner received a sixty-guinea challenge cup ...
Association’ had held their annual 1,000 yards swim from ‘Maynard’s Boat House to the Ibis Club House’. ...
‘Kew-bridge’ to the ‘Ibis Boat-house’. Kew was also the starting point for a memorable long- distance swim by ...
tiring but she ‘struggled on with the utmost gameness’, refusing to leave the water. However, after nearly fiv ...
woman I’ve yet found, and, as usual, further information is thin on the ground. Annie was born Hagar Ann Luker ...
she went on to become a famous high diver. In January 1894 she was appearing at the Royal Aquarium, diving ...
little figure, with ‘timid dark diving eyes; the sort of girl one would expect to scream at a black beetle’ ...
audience stood up to declare that a woman could do it. Annie Luker duly made her perilous plunge ...
waits for me at home.’ In 1895 she was described as Champion Lady Diver, still at the Royal Aquarium, whe ...
distance amateur championship from Kew was still going strong, and in 1905 The Times reported on ‘certainly ...
Hampstead Heath. Jarvis made a ‘plucky effort’, but was overtaken by both men, with Billington the eventual ...
born in Cardiff in 1886, had a glittering career, representing Great Britain in five Olympic Games, twice as c ...
by eighteen-year-old P. Scott from Cardiff. Twenty-two women took part and all completed the course. In 192 ...
them to teach her their novel stroke and then introduced the American crawl to the UK, making her a ‘pionee ...
baths. Although at first she hated her hand-knitted costume and didn’t fancy cold water, after dodging lessons b ...
at the Olympic Tests in 1919. This was despite having left school at thirteen to help her mother and sick b ...
world records, and unofficially, because of time- keeping problems, breaking many more. She was invited to the 1 ...
Women launch themselves off from a boat at the start of the long-distance race from Kew to Putney in The winner was Hilda James ...
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