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Exhibition Aquarium. Then, with her father, Frederick, she set sail for England to try and ‘swim back the family ...
dead’. Father and daughter rented rooms in Gower Street and approached local swimming clubs, but according to he ...
record breaking while in England’. Soon she was giving an exhibition of fast swimming at an indoor bath, th ...
‘cannonball’ dive. Kellerman demonstrated the then popular trudgeon style (similar to front crawl) at Westmins ...
‘Try swimming, old chap.’ Montague Holbein, who in 1899 covered forty-three miles from Blackwall to Gravesend and back, the long ...
running out, father and daughter moved to King’s Cross, where Kellerman stayed in a windowless attic room. T ...
residence near Kew and ‘is in active training for her proposed attempt to break the records of Montague Holbe ...
newsworthy for a woman to attempt to break a record set by a man. On 25 July 1899, Montague Holbein had swu ...
‘came back on the flood to Blackwall’. Although he didn’t manage to reach the pier ‘owing to the tide fa ...
cotton ‘warehouseman’ and had already achieved ‘practically world-wide fame’ for ‘some marvellous feats on a bicycl ...
place in the first Bordeaux– Paris bike race. But a cycling accident, which fractured his leg and left him la ...
advice, and to my great surprise became so fond of the water that the idea struck me to break records in ...
Blackwall, finishing the swim in just over thirteen hours, and ‘anybody seeing him climb the ladder lowered ...
by the salt water that he couldn’t see for four days. The following year he wore a mask made of ‘ ...
swimming is an art, even to- day, which is strangely neglected.’ Unusually for a champion who made his ...
his journey, his white handlebar moustache as bright as his swimming cap. He died in 1944. Fred Bownes, mean ...
Annette Kellerman apparently intended to beat, although exactly how isn’t clear considering her route was far shorter ...
‘I shall never forget that swim through the flotsam and jetsam of London’: Annette Kellerman demonstrates how to tread water. ...
On 30 June 1905 her father hired a boat and a boatman and, on a diet of mainly bread and milk, she ...
hours later’, the press had arrived in time to see her getting out, covered in grease. ‘I was absolutely starving ...
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