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competitors. The British press described him as Australian, ‘a wonderfully good man’ who had now won ‘his first suc ...
sporting men decided that, rather than swimming from London Bridge, they would dive from it. In 1871, J.B ...
his successful rescue were pre-arranged and the press concluded the whole thing was ‘a got-up affair’. It might h ...
races, such as the Putney to Hammersmith championships, and was immortalised in a ballad: Oh ! J.B. Johnson, ...
I wish that I could swim, like J.B. Johnson. Johnson’s title the ‘Hero of London Bridge’ was short- lived, ...
parapet and ‘dived head foremost into the Thames’. The bridge was crowded with pedestrians and ‘the excitement was inte ...
was ‘a first class swimmer’, got on to the steamer. The police went after him, but he’d already made hi ...
performance were kept secret. Beyond the customary gangs of loafers, no one was about at the time. It was deci ...
her broad-brimmed hat, and another her long ulster, the lady immediately leaping on to the coping-stone. She was a ...
When Marie Finney dived from London Bridge in 1889, diving was still a new sport in England. By 1903 the Highgate Men’s Pond on ...
then dived down, striking the water beautifully. The whole business occupied only a few moments, an ...
regulating the traffic, was oblivious to what was going to happen, and that it was her brother who gave the al ...
diving stage wouldn’t appear for another four years, at the Highgate Men’s Pond on Hampstead Heath which ...
meant the actual process of entering the water. The Swedes also brought in the swan or swallow dive, far more ...
watch her; the Amateur Diving Association wasn’t formed until 1901; diving for men didn’t become an Olympic sport ...
had been giving aquatic entertainments ‘in a glass bath’. She was, said the Penny Illustrated Paper, a ‘captiva ...
hostelry on to London bridge . . . to all appearances out for a stroll’. The following spring Finney wasn’t s ...
policeman and arrested.’ She was charged with obstructing the thoroughfare and fined £1. But she went on to complet ...
plan was to walk from his home city of Liverpool to London and back, diving from a bridge at each ...
evaded, while no little difficulty was found in procuring a recess from which to jump off. At length howeve ...
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