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‘Champion Lady Swimmer of the World’. She was still holding exhibitions as well as teaching in the early 1900s. B ...
year later was calling herself an ex-professional swimmer. What happened to Agnes Beckwith after this remai ...
Biography. It was only very recently that he was able to update Agnes’ entry. After her first husband died ...
was buried in the South End cemetery, where her name appears on a memorial plaque listing patients cared for ...
Tower’s Aquatic and Variety Circus. ‘A programme for 1895 revealed an astonishing scene of swimmers conducting acr ...
which gave her a mythical aura that legitimised swimming as a profession. Countless working-class females e ...
Thames swims. She was said to be just a few months older than Beckwith when in September 1875 she also ...
appearances were made under his tuition. At five o’clock on Saturday afternoon a river steamer ‘conveyed the ...
Parker gracefully acknowledged, the young swimmer plunged quietly into the Thames.’ The river police kept the Thames ...
fatigue’. River pistols, guns and small cannon were fired from various points as she made her progress d ...
‘content themselves with cheering while the black patch on the water rapidly drifted in the gathering twilight ...
London Bridge to Greenwich ‘by going a stage further’. But, once again, the press were not entirely suppor ...
River Thames where everyone could see them, easily swimming five – even twenty – miles, and in conventional ...
Parker in the middle of the ‘greatest metropolis in the world’ swimming their hearts out. The same month that ...
wind, which was rather high, was dead against the swimmer, and the water very rough and lumpy’. At Greenwich ‘a ...
At this point her brother Harry entered the water ‘with a view to encourage his sister, who was working hard’. ...
ten guineas. Other noted Victorian swimmers also set off from London Bridge, among them Frederick Cavill, who att ...
and seen action, before taking up professional swimming. In 1862 he’d won the English 500 yards swimming champ ...
he could ‘make no head way’. There was no mention in any press reports of what he was wearing. The follow ...
again – and failed again – in He then migrated to Australia, settling in Sydney and establishing himsel ...
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