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sewers overflow’. It would begin about thirty minutes before low tide; swimmers will be pulled by the current, ...
swim from Vauxhall, or anywhere really, they said “no way, no one touches the Thames”. I’m not doing a gu ...
by-law is in place. ‘They close London off if it’s a race or if it’s to raise money,’ she says, ‘but t ...
spectacular back-flip over an open Tower Bridge. ‘People say I’m crazy,’ he told the press, ‘but I just l ...
drivers travelled slowly across Tower Bridge tooting their horns when, at around 4 p.m., a man apparently wear ...
upstream at London Bridge. ...
20 London Docklands ...
‘We loved everything about the river . . . it was our playground, our life’ John Daniel, Thames lighterman, 195 ...
world’s largest port, and an area where people have been swimming and bathing for at least a century, inclu ...
Georgian era saw the opening of the West India Dock in 1802, followed by several others, while more docks ...
quayside workers dealt with the goods onshore. In 1909 the PLA took over management of the docks, replacing a ...
transporting cargo in containers, so they began to close. In 1981 the London Docklands Development Corporation ...
with spiked bars at the windows giving it a Bastille- like air, flanked by restaurants and bars, while down ...
atmospheric recreation of nineteenth-century riverside Wapping and a gallery explaining the city’s involvement in transatl ...
currently Curator of Community and Maritime History, ‘but people did. You weren’t supposed to bathe in the d ...
drawn to it.’ I follow him to a small meeting room where he’s arranged a number of documents on the table ...
unnamed clerk looked at fatality reports from four sample periods between November 1873 and December 1891. ...
outdoor tank at the West India Docks. Of the known causes of death, five boys drowned while bathing. But f ...
happened at West India Dock, which was one of the biggest areas of water with a large number of people ...
newspaper photographs from 1895 illustrating ‘A Swimming Fete at the Docks’ show nine bathers, all appar ...
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