Downstream
close to the statue of that Boadicea who in the far-gone days burnt this Roman City of Londinium?’ The ori ...
the shadow of Boadicea in her war chariot, the still impressive bronze monument designed by Thomas Thornycroft and ...
shops sell Union Jack umbrellas and postcards, while from somewhere up on the bridge comes the sound of a ...
tug, which hoots from time to time like some horrid monster in distress.’ The deserted river was no ...
magnified drop of Thames water. This was the year that a Commission on the London Water Supply reported o ...
curtains of the Commons were soaked in chloride of lime in an attempt to ward off the overpowering smell ...
narrower and its water therefore faster flowing. The work wasn’t completed until 1875, and in the meantime Cap ...
feat or act of heroism’. He learned to swim when he was eight in a ‘pond, or the River Severn, which ran ...
Johnson’s failed attempt to swim the Channel he was inspired to try it himself. So he did what so many lo ...
In 1874 Captain Matthew Webb swam six miles from Westminster Bridge in order to show he was capable of conquering the Channel, u ...
On 22 September 1874 Webb went out on a boat from Westminster Bridge with swimming professor Frederick B ...
breaststroke, and magnificent sweep of his ponderous legs,’ remembered Watson. Webb then made his ‘first public s ...
attempt, Webb swam from Dover to Calais in twenty-one hours forty-five minutes. He was the hero of the h ...
completed other feats in the Thames, performed in the United States in tank shows, and in London at the Royal ...
way to earn a fortune, but died while trying to swim through the whirlpool rapids on the Niagara River belo ...
Channel triumph, meanwhile, his rival Captain Boyton also set off from Westminster to swim the Thames. A couple of ...
is listed as an Honour Pioneer Contributor. On 20 July 1875 Boyton left Westminster, clad in his famous ...
reached Chelsea Suspension Bridge, received a ‘salute from the pier guns’. After three miles he had a rest, ...
he was a dedicated advocate of a suit invented by C.S. Merriman as a life-saving device for steamship pass ...
the time, and in the coming decades inventors would patent a whole array of air bladders, buoys and floats, web ...
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