Downstream
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, completing fifty-one marathon swims, nearly half of which took at lea ...
She later became ill and eventually housebound, refusing to give interviews and shunning any further publicity, u ...
her Channel rather than her river swims. In 1969 she was inducted into the International Marathon Swimming ...
oddly, wearing dainty heeled shoes, or preparing to dive into the Lambeth Baths. Unlike Ivy Hawke ‘the smiling swim ...
of Heroines. Her legacy in terms of Thames swimming, however, has yet to be properly recognised. The fact that s ...
days, it was a woman who got there first. ...
Lewis Pugh swims past the Houses of Parliament during his journey along the length of the Thames in Westminster has been the si ...
Now at last Mercedes Gleitze is being celebrated as a pioneering open-water swimmer. In October 2013, at the Gl ...
of Fame (ISHOF) as an Honour Open Water Pioneer Swimmer. In addition, a documentary, Mercedes: The Spirit ...
swimming career. I meet Doloranda at Tate Britain, a fifteen-minute walk upstream from Westminster Bridge ...
thanks to its specially commissioned mural, The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats. Doloranda is already seated whe ...
the mural was under 2 feet of water as a result of the massive Thames flood of 1928, but it survived an ...
waiter brings a tray of freshly baked rolls, then she begins to show me some of her mother’s treasures ...
achievements, because she left all these documents I’ve been able to record her career accurately in the biog ...
totally reclusive. That’s why she isn’t as well known today as, say, Gertrude Ederle, but I’m about to put th ...
indoor swims, press photos from the Channel swim, a copy of the Channel Swimming Association’s verification o ...
1927 it was to find that a leather travelling case presented to her by the Amateur Swimming Club had been ...
explains that a journalist who had been invited to accompany the crossing cancelled at the last moment. As ...
listing the names of every single spectator. But despite all these records, ‘the thinnest file I’ve got is o ...
dappled in shadow from overhanging trees. The water today is as green as Whistler’s mural. The afternoon is sticky ...
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