Downstream
family tradition’; he recently won a scholarship to Kelly College in Devon, which has produced numerous internationa ...
Brian painstakingly researched and put together a family tree, collating dozens of newspaper reports and photograp ...
people are out there with a champion swimmer in the family, just waiting for the right opportunity to celebrate ...
swam in the river. ‘It was possible until the forties of the last century to enjoy a dip without going far f ...
most promising youth of Westminster School.’ The usual place for pupils to bathe was off Millbank, a well-establ ...
accustomed to bathe’ they did so ‘as fully as much exposed to public view as the East Cliff at Brighton’. ...
their clothes and being otherwise molested as formerly occurred a canvas of 30 yds. long and 6 or 7 ...
or annoy. Part of the river at Millbank was marked out for the boys, who were ‘attended by a waterman’, aga ...
the Colman Family. The boys still bathed here until the late 1840s but then increasing pollution meant school ...
character it is absolutely unique. I know of no other classic stream that is so splashed about for the mere ...
seen as a major, and dangerous, accomplishment, and no school would take its pupils to swim in the Thames i ...
greatest possible challenges for sporting swimmers, and was sometimes more ferocious than the Channel. On 18 ...
a feat unheard of for either woman or man. It was a journey that would take her twelve days and establi ...
Mercedes Gleitze being greased up before a swim. In 1923 she set a record for a ten-hour, forty-five-minute swim in the Thames b ...
Born in Brighton in 1900, Gleitze learned to swim by the age of ten and on 5 August 1923 she had set a British ...
set off from Westminster just before 6 a.m., accompanied by a motor launch whose skipper was a Mr Garman. But w ...
spot known as Church Hole off Wapping, said to be notorious for currents. ‘I was sucked down rapidly and ...
myself again. Thereafter I was accompanied down the Thames by relays of Thames police.’ Press coverage of the sw ...
downstream before recovering, and local ‘longshoremen’ refused to believe it was possible. She continued her swim in ...
delayed by rough weather. Here she displayed her right arm ‘pitted with bright red spots’, presumably from jellyfis ...
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