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spinning wheel etc.’. He was still instructor to the London Swimming Club, and now to the Cholmeley School as ...
mount the parapet of London Bridge, near Fresh Wharf, and plunge into the stream. He was attired in a tight fitt ...
‘any man in the world from Dover to Victoria Pier, Folkestone, with hands and feet tied, and allow them ...
was presumably, no. Gautier continued to take part in swimming entertainments and then in 1892 decided to try the ...
hands fastened behind him’ and his feet chained together. But the Channel attempt seems to have been abandoned ...
from Dungeness Lighthouse in Kent to Folkestone but was forced to give up. In 1894 he began giving free ...
Illustrated Police News admiringly. ‘Sailor and dock and waterside labourers of all kinds may be mentioned as a clas ...
learn, and very unwilling pupils many of them are too’. Gautier continued to appear as a ‘speciality artist’ i ...
Bridge still with his hands and feet tied. Only now the issue of his nationality had been cleared up. A Ne ...
legs performed a fin-like twitch’, and when he got to Tower Bridge he ‘performed a series of evolutions a ...
swimming manacled, only this time ‘he swam the university boat race course from Putney to Mortlake, to ...
end when he died from pneumonia. Whether this was related to his swimming exploits isn’t known. However, as ...
none other than Jules Gautier’s great-grandson, Brian, a retired civil servant at the Ministry of Defence, w ...
but then a few months later he gives me his number. ‘My great-grandfather Jules had a pianoforte factory in Londo ...
Jules Gautier who had swum nine miles in the Thames with his hands and feet manacled. I assumed he was related ...
Victor, but although the image belonged in the family papers somewhere along the line it disappeared. And w ...
put it right but not in the right way. He wanted to put prison behind him in some way and it sounds more gla ...
hands down and scooping forward. And he waited for the tide so that would have helped. With the tow boat ...
him, he died a couple of years before I was born, but he was well known in town and people often sa ...
mentioned his own dad, Jules. Albert had big crowds at his pier shows; it was the heyday of seaside holidays, an ...
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