Downstream
above the springs at Seven Springs with the inscription: ‘HIC TUUS O TAMESINE PATER SEPTEMGEMINUS FONS’ – ‘H ...
Coln that it becomes a navigable river. ‘Where Lechlade sees thy current strong,/First waft the unlaboring ...
travel to the river’s source, but they failed to ‘draw our boat up to the very spring of the Thames,’ wrote ...
drink, while at Inglesham Weir, remembered Peacock, ‘a solitary sluice was hanging by a chain, swinging in t ...
obscurest glen’. The path through the graveyard today bears his name – Shelley’s Walk. Perhaps it was this Thames ...
flourishing port, shipping goods to London, and it continued as an important inland trade route with the introd ...
filthy; at Lechlade there were navigation problems. In the coming decade leisure traffic replaced the barges, and ro ...
Hope, who was ‘in the service of the Vicar of Lechlade’, drowned while bathing with some friends. He got ‘put ...
August bank holiday, and the following year the Lechlade Swimming Club took control of events. It’s not ...
including a ‘mirth-provoking’ tub race, and a 300 yards team swimming handicap in which five teams compe ...
canal and lock keeper’s house. In 1907 a Diving Championship was also launched at Lechlade, and although ...
Thames swimming and diving events, including a ‘50 Yards Ladies’ race. The town continued to host diving gal ...
temporary platform erected for a gala at which she was to give an exhibition. During her dive she struck a ...
clothes. They then walked along the bank in the direction of Inglesham where the man dived in, immediately ...
in, she ran down the bank, got stuck in the mud and couldn’t move. In the early twentieth century, with the clo ...
and began to write.’ In a recent radio programme Piers retraced the course of his beloved river along with ...
Till the water gathers from out of the hills Where childhood ends and history spills. London children were als ...
so beautiful and everyone so kind. I remember swimming in the Thames and there being a bridge. It was a wo ...
organised displays of entertainment and sporting prowess, particularly diving. This then gave way to a ...
with cruisers, narrowboats and small boats’. However, it warns: ‘Swimmers beware; the depth of water is varia ...
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