Downstream
Franklin was showing off and inspiring others with his skills. The tradition of Thames swimming appears to be ev ...
medals for those brave enough to try and save another’s life. In 1882 Bram Stoker of subsequent Dracula fame, ...
Stoker, who was on the same boat, travelling to London Bridge and perhaps on his way to the Lyceum Theatre where he ...
Bram was rewarded for his ‘gallant attempt’ and went on to create several fictional characters who would succe ...
Swimming Bath Company, with plans showing a glorious front elevation like a huge conservatory. The Board ...
along Grosvenor Road today, to find where the baths might have been. At the end of St George’s Square ...
waters of the Thames. The sound of traffic behind me on Grosvenor Road is never- ending, while on the river ther ...
Below street level the bridge is colourful, a riot of orange, red and blue, with large bronze figures gazing ...
Bridge, around three-quarters of a mile downstream and the ‘ugliest ever built’ according to Dickens’s Diction ...
week I swam in the Thames from Lambeth through the 2 Bridges Westminster & Blackfriars, a distance includin ...
1809: ‘There used to be a bathing-machine stationed on the eastern side of Westminster Bridge; and I had been ba ...
somebody ‘for a wager’. If Byron sounded boastful in his letter to Pigot, he would soon have reason to b ...
evening while swimming across the Hellespont to visit his lover, Hero, a journey he made every night. He ‘swum ...
International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1982 and is considered one of the earliest pioneers of o ...
some of the most exhilarating moments of his life,’ writes Charles Sprawson, ‘though he always wore trousers t ...
Lords. Downstream the view is impressive, with the towers of Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, and I ...
1726 he would hardly have had the option of an indoor pool, and nor did Byron in the early 1800s, aside from ...
16 Westminster ‘Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so ...
deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart ...
Westminster Bridge is one of the most recognisable spots in London, towered over by Big Ben and the Houses of Par ...
«
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
»
Free download pdf