Downstream
Agnes Beckwith and Emily Parker, both aged fourteen, were set to race each other in the Thames from London Bridge to Greenwich i ...
events were the height of popularity and it was now that Thames swimming really came into its own. Swimmi ...
few could match the skill and strength of Agnes Beckwith. Born in 1861, she’d been swimming and performin ...
connected with the Baths for nearly a quarter of a century. Frederick’s ‘family of frogs’ started giving public ...
aquarium at the Porcherons Music Hall in Paris. ...
T. Wildgoose and children, a swimming family similar to that of Frederick Beckwith’s ‘family of frogs’. ...
Frederick, like most swimming professors, was a lover of spectacle and a savvy promoter, issuing swimming wagers ...
Emily would swim five miles from London Bridge to Greenwich. He’d placed a wager of £50 to £30; Emily ...
blowing ‘kisses to spectators on the way’. The Morning Post reported, ‘Swimming Feat by a Female’, and noted t ...
and indeed impeded, the swimmer the entire distance.’ Like Annette Kellerman some thirty years later, it was Bec ...
was ‘encouraged with lusty cheers’. Passing Millwall, she ‘crossed to the north side and took advantage of ...
before being taken on board a boat, having accomplished the distance in one hour seven minutes and ending ‘al ...
What did she think about as she made her way down the river, and what were her mother’s views on the m ...
swimming. Her achievement would have been astonishing. No woman had ever done what she did in the Thames, and ...
ex-public school boys, and of course the aristocratic jockeys were getting away with naked races. In terms ...
one had succeeded in a Thames swim of this distance, except Webb the year before when he completed ‘nearl ...
reached Greenwich after two hours and forty-three minutes. ‘Ladies who would learn to swim, take lessons of Mis ...
troupe of lady swimmers’, and in the coming years she taught many women to swim, with her pupils giving ben ...
girl will now remain ignorant of swimming?’ Press reports frequently mentioned her ‘ease and grace’ and she was ...
brother William in a skiff, the youthful water sprite, dressed in a closely-fitting amber suit, adorned with wh ...
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