Downstream
pulled himself into the boat, while ‘hundreds of people watched him from the bridge and remained in earnest conv ...
swim when he was nine, became a club captain and a swimming teacher, and won hundreds of awards for divi ...
and Dublin, and was known for disguising himself as a ‘farmer, miner, newsboy, old woman, and a female market worke ...
exploits’ and described him as an erratic genius: ‘He had all the rough material in his composition out of which he ...
A six-year-old retriever named Now Then outpaces R. Smith from Sheerness in a ten-mile swim from London Bridge in August The do ...
London Bridge wasn’t just the site for daring swims and dives, but, like Westminster Bridge, it was a place ...
Gardens. A newspaper illustration from the time shows the river full of boats, the dog calmly leading the wa ...
Limehouse after forty-seven minutes, while the dog continued to Deptford Creek ‘none the worse for wear’ afte ...
19 Tower Bridge and Tower ...
Beach ‘Children may now use the beach lawfully as well as safely, for the King has given permission for them ...
I leave London Bridge and head along the Thames Path towards Tower Bridge but the route is temporarily closed ...
woman concentrates on writing her name on the sand with a sharp stone. A Dutchman asks if I can take h ...
most familiar bridges in the world, regularly featured in films and tourist literature. It’s the only Thame ...
But back in the 1930s, a little way downstream in front of the Tower of London, this was the city’s very own ...
Norway in 1252 it was reportedly given ‘a long leash’ so that it could swim in the Thames and catch fish ...
When the Tower of London Children’s Beach opened in 1934 King George V promised the children of the East End would ‘have this ...
tidal playground for ever.’ Here families enjoy ‘London’s Riviera’ in 1952. The 1930s children’s beach was the brainchild of ...
spirituality, energy, good heartedness and charm’. In the summer of 1931 he came up with a plan for the foresho ...
delight to the poor families who frequented Tower Hill’. He received the backing of Lord Wakefield of Hythe, a ...
causes as well’. On 23 July 1934 the beach was officially opened with a grand ceremony attended by the Lo ...
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