Downstream
He then points out more evidence of the tidal flow beneath London Bridge, where water swirls around the pillar ...
anyone actually in that spot would be blasted around, and Martin says when someone disappears here, their ...
minutes and found no one there either. Many survived the impact, he says, but died in the river. The PLA now have ...
wharves and lighter boats twenty-four/seven, they had all sorts of boats, but they wouldn’t have had the piers. Th ...
reach Wapping police station. ‘I don’t want to be macabre,’ says Martin, ‘but this is where the bodies go ...
swim in what is a free public resource. But, on the other hand, I wouldn’t want to have Martin’s ...
Yet what about all the old Thames swimmers, those like Horace Davenport, who won the first long-distance amateur c ...
hundreds of boats and watched by thousands of spectators, and there was no law to stop them. I haven’t even ...
15 Battersea– Lambeth ...
‘I seek not to wander by Tyber or Arno, Or castle-crown’d rivers in far Germanie; To me, Oh, far dearer, And brigh ...
Some three miles downstream from Putney, on the south side of the river and heading towards central London, is ...
generally considered clean, Charles II and his brother James enjoyed many an evening dip ‘to bathe themselves’ around ...
bank’. He was also said to have established contests on the Thames, when it was common for members of the ar ...
at the Tower he confessed he ‘had engaged’ to shoot His Majesty as he went to swim in the Thames above Ba ...
printers took an aquatic excursion up the river’ in order to decide a wager ‘between them and a gentleman ...
‘champion of the Typos’, managed the swim in one hour thirty-five minutes, accompanied by pleasure boats and a ba ...
have been doing a mile in twenty-three minutes, while he ‘only turned himself on his back for 40 yar ...
sky are grey, while ahead of me the row of Victorian street lamps that line the bridge look suitably glo ...
boat capsized. The bridge was crowded with pedestrians and the cries for help soon reached the Thames Police. All ...
reputed thieves and suspected persons’ and to rescue those in trouble. The Victorian press often reported on ‘te ...
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