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and especially the tidal Thames because it’s a challenge’. A lot of people come from the Serpentine Swimming Cl ...
extended to a full mile to include a clockwise circumnavigation of Chiswick Eyot. In 2012, sixty people ...
of his aunt who’d won the race from Richmond Lock to Blackfriars in 1911.’ Steve is also part of a ...
hour, or you take in the scenery and it takes twenty- five minutes.’ Again many come from the Serpentine ...
part, explains, ‘it is a very scenic and historic part of the Thames’. Steve says the PLA seem ‘unconc ...
upstream river belongs to them. They’ve done well, in the Olympics and everything, and they feel they ow ...
triathlon boom, ‘insurance companies are now better able to judge the risks and costs have started to fall ...
‘drunk one too many’ and was struggling against the high tide. ‘This kind of thing can be dangerous,’ said a ...
and seem to have increased in the past forty years, initially as we were first encouraged to move away ...
years and it is only since the Chiswick swimming baths closed that children have been coming here i ...
to the river’s worst pollution incident in twenty years, with blocked sewerage pipes and Thames Water pumping u ...
but also warns of the dangers of swimming. The Trust work with around 18,000 schoolchildren a year, taking t ...
and think it’s the sea. A lot of our work is really helping people realise how wonderful the Thames is. It is ...
people think: ‘at Chiswick it’s 144 metres wide but when we ask visiting school groups how wide they think ...
ever did when the river was “natural”.’ Chiswick is the location of the Great River Swim, which began in 2002 and is hel ...
He says it’s no wonder that two of the busiest RNLI stations are on the Thames, at Embankment and Chiswick, and a ...
you could be hit by a boat!’, whether they be rowers around Chiswick, river ferries and taxis in central and e ...
were to go back historically in many places it was an amazingly busy place. Really the foreshore has only ...
between Oxford and Cambridge. Footage filmed from the riverbank shows both boats heading towards Chiswick Pier, ...
to loud applause, and is jeered as he’s arrested and led away. Trenton had apparently entered the water about ...
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