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21 Dock Swim ‘The charity element of swimming ...
the Thames is huge’ Alex Jackson, Great Swim operations manager The PLA galas in the London Docks presumably en ...
opportunity to swim here with the launch in 2009 of the Great London Swim, an annual one-mile event in ...
kilometre open-water event, and David Davies’ silver in the men’s. The Windermere swim was such a success that th ...
I’ve signed up to do the swim for several reasons; it will be my first experience of a mass-participation ...
Lock to Radcot Bridge. This will be a city swim, and I want to get a sense of what it might have ...
mass-participation open- water swimming series’, only something’s gone wrong. The email informs me that ‘Followi ...
and watched numerous YouTube videos. I felt I was well prepared for my first mass-participation swim, and now I ...
priority. None of the Great London Swim literature has mentioned Millwall, but now we’re told it ‘has al ...
Victoria Dock, I’m actually going to be further upstream on the Isle of Dogs, right next to the West India ...
area is a commercial business district, its office towers home to technological, publishing, legal and financial ...
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The Royal Victoria Dock was chosen as the original venue for the first Great London Swim, a one-mile course that attracts thousa ...
although I’m keen to swim near where Kathleen Ralphs once raced, I’m still a little anxious that I h ...
swim. The next morning I get to Millwall Dock to find a mass of people crossing back and forth on We ...
sunshine; there is barely a ripple. There’s no bunting as there was in the 1930s, but there is a carnival atmosp ...
swimmer that in the early days of the London Triathlon, which held swims in the Royal Victoria Dock in ...
stop anything floating in. The first of today’s swimmers started at 9 a.m.; we’re split into ‘waves’ an ...
yellow buoys resembling bouncy castles, then the swimmers seem to disappear before returning along the lef ...
the 1930s, instead there are large canvas tents across Westferry Road. But I’m stopped at the entrance to the w ...
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