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having just thrown themselves off a temporary diving stage. In 1906 the London and India Docks Swimming Club ...
the docks had become the setting for swimming events run under ASA rules. The Port of London Authority Swimming ...
championships at the PLA’s swimming gala at the Millwall Cutting. The dock looks vast, like a lido, w ...
‘A Swimming Fete at the Docks’. It’s not clear which dock this is, but the date is July 1895. I’m surprised the Docklands Mu ...
anything much to commemorate these old events, until Tom tells me they have three silver cups (not on d ...
his father worked as a granary foreman in the old Surrey Docks. When she was seventeen she joined the PLA as a t ...
which was invited to take part in the galas. The day before an event a section of the dock was ‘skimmed off’ ...
made you feel tremendous. You just shot through the water at twice your normal speed.’ The river had a dis ...
know what you might have swallowed”’. As a child Ralphs’ father also used to swim in the docks, where ...
the dock so that I could rescue them.’ Everyone working for the PLA had to swim. ‘In those days swimming was a ...
Children’s Gallery is Museum guide Brian Gover, wearing the distinctive bright pink shirt required of employees, ...
He was born on the Isle of Dogs in 1941 and remembers two areas where you could swim officially, Tower Bri ...
you needed a new rabbit hutch then you could pick up timber, and we used to raid the barges for peanuts.’ ...
Dives in progress during a dock swimming fête in 1895. Some children dived from ...
barges or from the steps off the causeway; others just waded into the water. ‘No one had swimming costumes,’ sa ...
would throw us money’. But everyone knew it was potentially dangerous. ‘We were warned not to swim, the poli ...
absolutely filthy and full of oil, we all had boils. It was polluted, no doubt about it. There was a lot o ...
overboard.’ As he got older, ‘we just grew out of it, and they shut up the stairs and built up behind them. ...
who is educational officer at the City of Westminster Archives. Daniel’s family worked on the Thames in one form ...
based at Hays Wharf and at one point employing more than 200 men, with seven tugs and 400 barges. As th ...
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