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another.’ The river shaped Daniel’s life and he met his future wife thanks to the Thames. One day he was with a ...
four children and five grandchildren later I think that was the best day’s work I ever did on the gra ...
quite a bit of trouble. Matthew had never swum in the Thames before, although he did once rescue a dog, ‘bu ...
parapet and fallen in. It was dark, the tide was high and it was windy. I was brought up in Africa; I didn’t kn ...
In July 1906 the London and India Docks Swimming Club held their gala at Millwall Cutting, including the 50 yards wet-shirt hand ...
Matthew took his first planned swim in the Thames, although it was something he’d been mulling over for fift ...
said, “take a life jacket, have someone in a boat, tow a life belt”, but to take the means to save you ...
decided to make his crossing in high summer when the water was warmest, and at high tide as it turned. ...
wouldn’t be taking a life jacket he said he would come, too. One night they finally put their plan i ...
the other side of the Thames under the Rotherhithe Tunnel. Along with Jonathan he crept down the Globe Sta ...
them slap against your face.’ Then, when he turned to look for the Globe Stairs behind him, he saw they ...
moored sailing boats at Wapping, when Jonathan managed to grab a rope and Matthew a rudder. They then rea ...
have been another mile or so.’ They’d been in the Thames for around half an hour, and they were about ...
there was no point calling the police. Anyway, I had the strongest of hunches you’d be OK.’ It was then that ...
salty which was a surprise, but both of us were fine.’ Matthew got plenty of press coverage, mainly because h ...
me, I was not surprised by people saying it was dangerous, but I didn’t think it would get so much reaction, I ...
decision.’ As for the PLA’s argument that a swimmer poses a danger to boats, he says, ‘mostly it is dangero ...
in the Thames towing a canoe on a long line; he’d ended up one mile downstream and wouldn’t do it aga ...
Playwright Steven Berkoff, who swam at the Tower Bridge beach as a child, called it an ‘audacious, dazzling, da ...
overflowing storage tanks and acts as home to various microbiological nasties, I shall stick to boats’. At th ...
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