Downstream
‘The Lambeth Naiad’. Agnes Beckwith was a trailblazer in terms of Thames swimming, but is yet to be inducted into any hall of fa ...
At Coates’s boathouse she was ‘fired at by way of encouragement, which, no doubt, was very comforting, and was ce ...
‘shot under Old Kew-bridge, laughing and keeping up an animated conversation with her friends’. An enormous cro ...
queen so unquestionably deserved’. She completed the swim in six hours twenty minutes, and it was only at Kew ...
a quarter of a century later by Madame von Isacescu. But it appears this was too expensive for her father to fin ...
the Royal Aquarium, equalling a record set by Webb, in what was known as the whale tank – it had recently ...
Aquarium teaching ‘ladies how they may save themselves and others from drowning . . . every afternoon and ...
Royal Family’. Agnes Beckwith (in the middle) travelled the country giving exhibition shows with her ‘troupe of lady swimmers’ ...
In 1882 Beckwith was being billed as ‘the premier lady swimmer of the world’ at a farewell benefit at t ...
Garden. The same year the Princess of Wales took her daughters to the swimming annexe of the Westminster Aqu ...
Agnes Beckwith. Yet her 1875 Thames swim was still well known nearly forty years later. In his 1914 book ...
according to Holbein, was for a wager of £100. In 1916, when Eileen Lee swam thirty-six miles from Teddi ...
AMAZING FEATS’ by the Adelaide Advertiser opens with: ‘There must be people still living who looked on with ...
believed it was possible . . . After this I quite believe that the day will come when women will ...
performances, has proved a worthy successor of these pioneer mermaids’. The paper goes on to cite Ethel Littlewo ...
Beckwith firmly where she belonged, as the first woman to swim a notable distance in the Thames, who has hea ...
chest and arms wonderfully’. It promoted circulation and gave a healthy appetite, and for those who wanted ‘t ...
she also linked swimming with weight: ‘strangely enough, swimming has a fattening effect, and many of us find ...
Swimming professor Hobson Bocock whose 1888 ‘self instruction’ swimming cards were aimed at ‘both sexes’ ...
thanks to pioneers such as Agnes Beckwith. By now the press was urging that all girls and women should know how t ...
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