Downstream
Mercedes swam here?’ ‘The Thames won’t have changed, or most of the bridges,’ she says, ‘but the London ...
women still led restricted lives at that time,’ says Doloranda. However her mother ‘was one of the new women ...
trained full-time. British women didn’t have any funding. My mother had to earn a living; she was a working gir ...
Westminster, where her fluency in English and German was an asset. It was one of the new white-collar office jobs ...
and from work and that’s what gave her the idea. It was not her original ambition to swim the Thames bu ...
a licence from the Port of London Authority.’ I stare at her, astounded that the PLA granted Mercedes pe ...
this body of water as somewhere to train. She used her initiative! Her motivation was to break records and make ...
worked in an office overlooking the river, and I ask where she swam from on these training weekends. Did she ...
accommodation at each of the landing places en route to Folkestone. It would have been the most practical ...
detailed information on this swim also frustrated me. I know the Daily Mail covered it because I have a ...
bacon, ‘which must have been difficult to eat in the water!’, ham sandwiches, fried fish, ‘a raw egg drink t ...
Victorian times, and she says she doesn’t know and that the press reports in her mother’s archives don’t mentio ...
us had her ambition’. She has only swum once in the Thames herself, at Maidenhead sixty-five years ago with ...
swims in corporation pools gave city-dwelling people, especially women and girls, the opportunity to see a woman d ...
17 Charing Cross– ...
Blackfriars ‘Here at Hungerford Bridge floating swimming-baths are in the course of erection . . . [they] w ...
It’s a sunny morning in May and the riverside at Charing Cross Bridge, around half a mile downstream from W ...
leading over the Thames to the Festival Hall, and nearby the London Eye glinting like a silver beaded bracelet. ...
it to his biographer John Forster as ‘a crazy, tumble- down old house, abutting of course on the river, and swar ...
and distinguished man crushed in my breast’. He uses much the same words to describe the young David Copp ...
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