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board. The Thames River Police’s rowing boats based at Wapping were replaced with steam launches, there was a ...
point for a race which ‘severely tested the strength of amateur swimmers,’ reported The Times, ‘as they had to g ...
with fatal consequences. The same year a man was seen swimming fully dressed before he sank opposite ...
movable flood barriers, run and maintained by the Environment Agency, and where the PLA swimming ‘ban’ from Putney ...
1980 swim, when he ran out of tide. ‘They were building the Thames Barrier at the time,’ he explains, ‘an ...
me, was I was stuck at the sewage works, which was probably why I got ill.’ Lewis Pugh’s Thames swim around a ...
when I got there I realised how small it is, it’s nothing.’ I leave the Royal Arsenal Pier and walk b ...
studies collection is kept. It’s quiet inside; there are the usual filing cabinets, wooden tables and the obligato ...
just one newspaper article, dated September 1895, which explains, ‘we announced that Sam Martin, of Woolwich Bat ...
mile to go when the tide turned and his friends persuaded him to stop. ‘Unless a man can swim 3¼ miles an ho ...
power station’. Then he brings a box of Thames riverside pictures, and yet another until I have five boxes ...
place for those who couldn’t afford to get to seaside resorts. Children went beachcombing, collecting pieces of ...
Depression, ‘when to provide some holiday opportunity for people who had no means of taking one, Greenwich Council ...
sand with a short flight of stone steps leading down from the Royal Naval College. Another photo, dated ...
Greenwich enjoy a day on their beach in the late 1920s’. So perhaps the beach was only officially opened – ...
sit on the stone steps; children and dogs play on the sand. The background is heavily industrial, full of build ...
young man in shorts seems to be towelling himself dry and it suddenly strikes me that so far no one is actual ...
of a guide to Greenwich, issued by the council in the mid-1920s, and now there are two naked boys in the foreg ...
Greenwich had ‘long been noted for the hospitality it extends to strangers,’ notes the guide, with hotels and privat ...
hear a man shouting, ‘foul language? Do we tolerate it?’ ‘NO!’ shout the children in their camouflage ou ...
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