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the family scattered his ashes on the river he loved so much that he always called it ‘Old Father Thames’. ...
Bridge jumping was once quite common in central London; as late as the 1950s local children enjoyed jumping from Battersea Bridg ...
dumping nuclear waste at sea. He’d agreed to take part in a National Union of Seamen and Greenpeace demonst ...
down the Yangtze’ – but didn’t fancy the water: ‘one gulp of the Thames and you’d be a goner’. Appearing o ...
Originally, John wanted to climb out of the water at the Palace of Westminster, go up the steps on to the Ho ...
might already be in from the polluted river. It was finally agreed he could arrive at the steps, but couldn’t ...
went to a landing stage at Westminster Bridge where he walked to Downing Street, still in his swimming gear. ...
Battersea to have received any coverage in recent years was that of a five-metre-long Northern bottlenose w ...
died before it could be returned to the sea. The tradition of swimming around Battersea seems to have been ...
dirty and crowded, quite apart from the ‘No Swimming’ sign and the 2012 ‘ban’. I leave Cremorne Gardens a ...
with its silver towers and pink-panelled sides, its unusual colour scheme chosen in order to make it more vi ...
When I get to Chelsea Bridge, nearly a mile downstream, the entrance is blocked by builders and a small forkli ...
the mid-1600s, Sir Dudley North, civil servant and economist, was known for his swims around here. He was an intre ...
flood’, gliding along with the current like an arrow, dodging anchors, ‘broken piles and great stones’. Chelsea ...
‘hold my night gown, shirt, and slippers’ and borrowed a napkin from his landlady ‘for a cap’. He assure ...
great stones’ which were so sharp that as he came out of the Thames he could hardly set his feet on the ...
both my hands, for fear of losing it. – Pox take the boats! Amen.’ Benjamin Franklin, who would become on ...
swam from near Chelsea to Blackfriars (3½ miles) performing on the way many feats of activity, both upon and ...
watch. Franklin, who grew up near the sea in Boston, had been swimming since a child and had ‘been ever del ...
Swimming Hall of Fame, which describes him as ‘one of our first marathon and ornamental “synchronized” swimme ...
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