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elitist’. He argued that the race was ‘a symbol of a lot of issues in Britain around class. Seventy per cent ...
swimming in the Thames’ because ‘like a naughty child he just did it to get attention’. ...
13 Putney ‘Swimming [is] the ...
best sport in the world for women’ Annette Kellerman , 1918 ...
Annette Kellerman is one of the few women champions still internationally known today. Here she demonstrates the breaststroke. P ...
in the history of Thames swimming for several reasons. It was here, for example, that in 1905 Australian Anne ...
high street from the station, where I can see the fifteenth- century tower of St Mary’s church just on the r ...
earned their names – Fulham and Putney. But this is no quaint river crossing and, as with Kew Bridge, tra ...
the banks, but it also feels like a river in a city; I’ve long left the countryside behind. At the Fulha ...
in the sculpture garden in front of a statue of two figures in stone. They seem to be embracing; perhaps it ...
Wollstonecraft, the feminist philosopher and writer best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, who in 1795 ...
from Putney Bridge – some reports say she rented a boat and rowed over to Putney after finding Battersea Bri ...
where there is the least chance of my being snatched from the death I seek.’ Wollstonecraft survived, returned ...
the story of the river, this was also the setting of joyful occasions and in the nineteenth century Putney was th ...
championship also began (or ended) at Putney, before the course was changed to Kew. In July 1877 the inaugur ...
he played an important role in the ASA and one of his later feats was swimming from Southsea in Portsmouth to ...
had recently won the mile championship in the Serpentine. Two years later Jones again raced the same Thames cour ...
and the ‘scene on the river was quite unprecedented’. In 1895 Professor G. Peat, ‘well-known high diver’, decided t ...
from the past still internationally known and honoured today. Born in 1886 in Sydney, New South Wales, her fa ...
of sixteen she was the 100 metres world record holder. She then set a women’s world record for the mile in thirty ...
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