Downstream
150 deaths in the Thames that year, four times the number there are today: 25 were suicides, 79 were acciden ...
houseboats and a sign warning ‘Private Property’. Between the boats and the road there is a beach of sorts, i ...
‘and others’ for silver cups and snuff boxes during an exhibition match from Cremorne House Stadium to Batterse ...
‘British National Arena’ included a six-day Olympic Games, with one day devoted to ‘feats in swimming and o ...
important acquirement to persons in all spheres of life’. Lessons would be offered, ‘aided by novel contrivances’, but ...
Committee’ had recently granted ‘the extraordinary privilege to the Proprietor of the Stadium, of constructing a ...
A balloon ascent at Cremorne Gardens depicted by Walter Greaves in 1872. The twelve-acre pleasure gardens opened in the 1840s, b ...
where races were held across the Thames. This certainly sounds an organised way of promoting the art of swimming. As ...
associations. During the 1838 race, the two heats ‘started with the discharge of artillery’, then at half pas ...
A SWIMMING RACE twice across the Thames by AQUATIC JOCKEYS will take place at Cremorne house, King’s Road, ...
. . . “Here come the jocks!” saluted our ears . . . We turned round and beheld a file of stark nake ...
enthusiasts eager to prove themselves in the Thames, Random’s grand plans were not to be and a few years later ...
artist James Whistler moved to Lindsey Row in Chelsea in 1863 and his windows faced the Thames which he painted o ...
fell into ‘one of the mud- holes’ with which ‘the river is intersected’. A bright blue sign announces ...
me is a large red ‘No Swimming’ sign. The shore below is covered in pebbles and rocks; water has collected in ...
great-grandfather used to come here and there was a wire across the river and they used to walk across ...
proposed floating bath, a precursor to various pontoons along the Thames such as the one at Kingston in 1 ...
uniform depth and temperature’. This would begin with ‘a covered and well-ventilated iron bath, to be placed ...
the Embankment, while the following year another was proposed near Albert Bridge. There is little in the way ...
warm pavements back on to the bridge, and jumped off again’. Bridge jumping appears to have been quite common ...
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