Downstream
sooner, tomorrow even? The solution was simple. Build a steel pontoon with pools set within the structure, th ...
swimming in the Thames.’ Will swimmers return to the Thames in central London? Studio Octopi’s new plans for floating baths ...
offer a twenty-five-metre lap pool, a plunge pool and paddling pool all within a 60×10 metre structure ...
to the civic spaces along the river, re-establishing a physical link between Londoners and the Thames’. The baths ...
healthy and given the chance plants will grow in this tidal stretch of the river.’ The floating baths, if the ...
of Studio Octopi’s plans has been substantial and, as with the Victorian floating baths, media reports expr ...
Channel meant outdoor swimming was hugely popular. In the twenty-first century there are again new sewer plans, ...
easily accessible small sandy beaches. One lies just by the National Theatre, on the Queen’s Walk, where ...
‘See, here’s a beach!’ exclaims an American woman. ‘Look at the sand!’ ‘I wanna go on it,’ says her son. ...
Parrott, one of the few images held by the Museum of London with evidence of Thames swimming, shows a group ...
lot of people thought of it as a way to end it all, and people mostly picked Waterloo Bridge. If they were fi ...
worry for the characters of Iris Murdoch’s 1954 novel Under the Net, when one drunken night Jack Donaghu ...
undress, keeping an eye out for river police. Jack shoots out into the open river, the sky above cascading w ...
after him, he is ready for the new day. ...
18 London Bridge ...
‘The agile Agnes all proclaim The lady champion aquatic, And warm admirers hold her fame To equal that ...
Tower Bridge looks like a gateway to a medieval castle moored in the middle of the river. Everywhere are boa ...
and one of the most congested points in London. By the mid-nineteenth century 100,000 people walked across it every d ...
It was Agnes Beckwith who first sparked my interest in Thames swimming. I initially came across her in a ...
mouth open in alarm; presumably in the process of drowning. Then I read a passing reference to a swim she ...
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