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much as they had done her predecessor’s. ‘And still they speak about the weaker sex!’ reads a second P ...
been a member of the Excelsior Club of Highgate, which means she would have swum at the Kenwood Ladies’ P ...
Photos show a sloping stone embankment busy with sunbathers, bikes, prams and dogs, while children paddle i ...
Today, on the Putney Pier side of the Thames, is the stone that marks the place where the university boat r ...
Officer Ruth MacLeod. Why is there nothing to commemorate Horace Davenport’s swim in 1877, Annette Kellerman’s in ...
news for Putney bathers when local newspapers declared commuter ‘swim lanes’ were ‘to be created in the River Tha ...
systems would operate during peak hours to keep the water clean. The first lane to open would run from Pu ...
without a licence from the PLA. So it’s unlikely anyone will ever be able to officially replicate An ...
14 The Port of London ...
Authority ‘A person must not without the prior permission of the PLA, given in writing, and in accordance with ...
Crossness and Putney Bridge’ 2012 by- law ...
Instructions from Professor Bocockon the best way for a swimmer to leave and enter a boat. The by-law that governs swimming ...
to the Thames Barrier was introduced in 2012, but well before this there had been heated discussions between the PL ...
couldn’t swim through London,’ he explains. ‘I got out the book of Thames by- laws and said, “can you ...
Lewis Pugh similarly intended to swim from source to sea, ‘he rang me up about his swim and asked w ...
of what adventure and pushing the boundaries of human endeavour is about. As long as you do it responsibly and ...
the PLA I explained that I’d safely swum in significantly more dangerous parts of the world including th ...
able than me to do it and they would drown. I explained I wouldn’t be swimming anywhere near any ship ...
swim. There was an important principle, which I felt strongly about. To me this was a human rights issu ...
Throughout the swim I received calls and emails from the PLA saying they would arrest me if I swam past T ...
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